Can chronic prostatitis lead to infertility?

We can dialecically look on the question that whether chronic prostatitis can affect fertility. Some patients with grievous symptoms can still have kids. In theory, inflammation in prostate can have influence on both quantity and composition of semen. This indeed is the cause that can give rise to infertility.

 

To start with, we should realize that prostate fluid secretion decreases when there's inflammation in prostate. Meantime, the decreasing quantity of semen greatly interfere with survival and activity of sperm, which limit the activity of enzyme in the prostate fluid. Apart from that, inflammation can also lower PH value of semen, consequently, body produces anti-sperm antibodies that kills sperms. 

There is large amount of bacterial and bacterial neomycin in prostate fluid, which can consume the nutritional composition of seminal plasma. Analyzing from the clinic cases, most patients who have chronic prostatitis is normal in fertility. Few patients can have this problem, but factors that bring about male infertility is complicated. If much attention is paid on chronic prostatitis, other causes may be leaved out. 

At last, if all tests are done in both wife and husband, but still can't find anything abnormal to cause infertility, patients should not ascribe this to chronic prostatitis.