1. By: Ashley Whiteaker Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia In The Urinary System

2. What Is It? When your prostate glands becomes very enlarged, and cause problems with urination which is what makes you pee. This also could be a high risk for prostate cancer which is cancer inside your prostate.

3. How Do You Get It? In men’s prostate they have two growth changes. They have their puberty, and when it doubles its size at the early age of 25 years old. Men usually start having Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia before the age 60.

4. What Happens To The System? It presses against the urethra which makes problems with the urination. Also your bladder will become thicker, it gets irritated, it get weaker, and may not empty all the way and there might be more urine inside.

5. Does The Body Try to Fix Itself The only way your body will try to fix itself when having Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia is if you take meds to help it.

6. What Medicines do You Need to Take You would need to take bothersome or moderate. If you stop taking these meds then the symptoms will come back.