Urologist warns about the risk of prolonged erection

Urologist Gabriel Bastidas said that prolonged erections can pose a serious health risk. He gave this warning to men in a conversation with CuidatePlus.

If an erection lasts more than four hours, you should see a doctor, Bastidas says. This condition is called priapism. Its main negative consequence is irreversible erectile dysfunction.

The specialist emphasized that a long-term erection most often occurs without sexual desire. Among the causes of priapism, he identified the use of drugs for potency, sickle cell anemia, penile injuries, neurological pathologies, the use of certain prohibited substances, as well as psychotropic, antihypertensive drugs and anticoagulants. This condition can be distinguished from a normal erection by two signs: pain and the absence of flaccidity of the penis even after ejaculation and the disappearance of the sexual stimulus, Bastidas added.