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Smoker, Getting Testicular Infections, Taken Antibiotic, Cured. Is It Due To Smoking?
I have been smoking around a half a pack of cigarettes per day for around 9 years now. Over the past 2 years i keep getting testicular infections . appx. 7 of them. Epidymis or someting. No cyst on them with ultrasound results. get antiobiotics and it goes away after a week or so...??? Are the cigarettes causing this? or all the caffeine i drink?
Mon, 22 Jul 2013
Hi,
Recurrent epididymitis can be due to many causes like sexually transmitted infections, non-sexually transmitted infections, immunological disease, injury, drug-induced, rare fungal infections etc. It is unlikely that cigarettes or caffeine are directly implicated in it. But at the same time smoking does impair your fitness and your body's ability to defend itself from infections.
Best wishes.
Recurrent epididymitis can be due to many causes like sexually transmitted infections, non-sexually transmitted infections, immunological disease, injury, drug-induced, rare fungal infections etc. It is unlikely that cigarettes or caffeine are directly implicated in it. But at the same time smoking does impair your fitness and your body's ability to defend itself from infections.
Best wishes.
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