The thing that with age we lose interest in sex is more or less accepted.
It is taken for granted that at a certain age, sex becomes an almost anecdotal element in our lives.
Error.
It is not so much that sex becomes secondary as that we change our concept of sex.
Intercourse becomes almost a special mission.
And we indulge ourselves with a much more affective than purely carnal sexuality.
Age leaves a nice trail, in our power.
Although we live in a purely macho society that allows men to enjoy privileges such as that their aging is not so criticized socially, it must be recognized that men are the ones who get the worst part of the passage of the years: one in two men over fifty years old have erectile dysfunction problems.
To that is added a novelty: Dena Grayson, an American doctor specializing in infectious diseases, says that the coronavirus is leaving sequelae that have not been talked about as much.
The neurological diseases caused by the coronavirus affect the corpora cavernosa and, among them, the penis.
Passing the disease can leave headaches, dizziness, myalgia and anosmia as sequelae.
Add to that encephalopathy, encephalitis, stroke and even epileptic seizures.
To the whole string of lung conditions with the episodes that we all know by now, add all these.
The issues that have to do with erectile dysfunction have a bad track.
Normally, this problem is carried in silence before the modesty of recognizing that they have erection problems.
Don't be hard enough to obsess.
The male ghost that is repeated the most in the consultations of psychologists and sexologists is this: men are obsessed with it.
Which is a problem.
If it is not treated quickly, the thing becomes chronic.
That the coronavirus may affect this matter in some way, at least it worries.
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"What is not so clear are the reasons why it happens. It seems that it is multicausal," says Javier Romero, head of Andrology at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre.
The string of possibilities is wide: "The coronavirus, when it affects humans, does so on the endothelium, on the blood vessels. There is a theory that it could directly affect the corpora cavernosa. Therefore, the penis is a vascular organ, is where the blood vessels are most concentrated. This could translate into erectile dysfunction. Add to this that many COVID-19 patients have lung diseases. This means that viral pneumonia alters the oxygenation of the blood, which can be reason for erectile dysfunction. As if that were not enough, neurological damage, such as that caused by loss of taste causes neuropathies that occur in dysfunction. And, to top it off, there is a theory that says that the coronavirus affects the testicles ".
Glub.
The andrologist emphasizes with great emphasis that to all this we must add stress, the traumatic process that involves going through a disease that so many people die from.
A situation that also affects the erection.
Many erectile dysfunction problems are treated with therapy, not drugs.
That is why it is important to see a doctor as soon as it happens.
Experts on these issues insist on pointing out that most erectile dysfunction problems are easily solved if the affected person goes to the doctor quickly.
Hospitals face the challenge of, despite the coronavirus, continue to care for the most serious patients with other diseases.
The head of the Urology unit of the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre acknowledges that there has not been an increase in consultations about erectile dysfunction;
On the contrary, there has been a setback, caused among other things by fear: "The coronavirus is scary. The hospitals are overwhelmed, the units stop treating less serious cases, erectile dysfunction that is already difficult to speak without a pandemic, now it is not even mentioned The cases of more serious diseases are the ones we are treating. Prostate cancer or kidney diseases, mainly. "
They are analyzing it.
They are in it.
All these studies on account of the coronavirus will shed more ideas of the reasons that lead to this being the most widespread ailment among men between 17 and 70 years: erectile dysfunction.
The eternal secret that nobody talks about, but that affects so many.
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