Nutritional substitution therapy: A new method which prevents prostatic surgery in benign physiological hypertrophy: A preliminary report

Summary

• 1. From a preliminary series of 100 cases of benign prostatic hypertrophy, 4 cases have been selected for detailed discussion, representing age groups from 20–71 years.

• 2. In 2 of these cases prostatic hypertrophy, itself, was prevented; in the third case surgery had previously been recommended as urgent, but was averted by massages plus complete replacement therapy with vitamins, hormones and amino acids; in contrast, the fourth case refused replacement therapy until too late to prevent surgery.

• 3. Detailed successful therapeutic measures are described in the first three cases.

• 4. A control group of 107 cases in a similar age group were followed. Of this group 58 per cent required surgery for acute obstruction due to benign prostatic hypertrophy. Another 8 per cent having acute obstruction were carried along by frequent catheterization.

• 5. The absolute necessity for restoring physiological balance by nutritional replacement therapy, the importance of eradicating all infectious foci in order to maintain a good nutritional level, and the advisability of follow up examinations with booster courses of parenteral therapy in conjunction with prostatic massage is urgently recommended.

• 6. By this therapeutic approach a method for prevention of all surgery for simple hypertrophied benign prostatitis is demonstrated and presented for consideration.