Erectile Dysfunction Scenario

Erectile Dysfunction is termed as a condition as a result of which a man experiences disability to either get erection of penis.

Erectile dysfunction affects many men in their lives. Suddenly there has been very sharp spurt in the number of men seeking medical assistance for correction of their disorder, when the drugs were introduced for correcting or temporarily helping people to tide over the situation and appeared on internet medical stores offering home delivery with complete confidentiality of the buyer.

Understanding Erectile Dysfunction:

One should first understand the process of erection. Erection of penis takes place with the situations and circumstances create a stimulus to the brain, in response to which the nerves, blood vessels and hormones collectively act on chambers of spongy tissue of the penis called corpora cavernosa.

The muscles feel the relaxation causing excessive blood flow to the spongy tissue, which has large spaces to accommodate excessive blood during erection, causing expansion of penis in length as well as breadth. It is followed by a muscular action preventing back flow of blood received thus there is maintenance of erection till the muscular action is reversed allowing backflow of blood.

Erectile dysfunction is a state, when the sequence of actions promoting erection, fail to respond in the manner they should have responded maintaining fairly long and strong erection.

Following are the possible factors causing the erectile dysfunction:

• Any traumatic event or occurrence of disease causing damage to structure of the penis, which involves muscular deficiency, nerves or arteries of the organ, results into erectile dysfunction.

• In majority of men it can be due to diabetes, alcohol addiction, kidney, vascular, and neurological disease.

• As a result of surgical operation affecting nerves, arteries, and organs responsible for proper erection.

• As side effect of certain drugs consumed like anti-hypertensive and drugs for treating diabetes.