How to choose drugs for prostate treatment?

Because the symptoms of chronic prostatitis last for a long time, they will continue to affect the patient's life, causing great distress to the patient and his family. If the disease lasts for a long time, it will also cause other problems. There are currently many types of prostate treatment drugs, so when choosing these drugs, you must know what disease they are for so as not to make the wrong choice. There are several main types of drugs used to treat prostate disease:

A drug that relieves spasm of the prostatic urethra and bladder neck

Commonly used ones include tamsulosin, doxazosin, etc. This type of drug can relieve posterior urethral spasm, promote urine emptying, prevent urine from flowing back into the prostate, and relieve pelvic floor muscle spasms. This type of drug can improve patients' urination symptoms, pain and quality of life to varying degrees. It takes a long time to apply, generally 3-6 months. When taking this type of drug, be careful about the occurrence of orthostatic hypotension.

2 Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

This type of drug is mainly used to relieve pain and local discomfort. Commonly used drugs include diclofenac sodium, indomethacin and other drugs.

Three Chinese patent medicines

Chinese patent medicine mainly improves patients' symptoms by promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying, and tonifying the kidney. If the main symptom is pain, it is advisable to use blood-activating and detoxifying, blood-stasis-removing and stagnation-removing drugs. If the symptoms are mainly bladder and posterior urethra irritation symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency and incomplete urination, blood-activating and detoxifying, heat-clearing and dampness-removing drugs should be used. If the symptoms are fatigue, back pain, neurasthenia and sexual dysfunction, blood-activating and detoxifying, kidney-tonifying drugs should be used. Commonly used medicines include Prostacon, Prostashutong Capsules, Longbishu Capsules, Longqing Tablets, Prostashuhuichun Capsules, Prostashuan Suppositories and so on. Chinese patent medicines are generally used according to the course of treatment.

Four anti-inflammatory drugs

For type II and type IIIA prostatitis, anti-inflammatory drugs are selected based on drug sensitivity results and the ability of drugs to penetrate the prostate. Commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs include ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin; azithromycin, clarithromycin; minocycline, etc.

Five drugs to relieve frequent urination and urgency

For patients with severe symptoms of frequent urination and urgency, but without obstructive symptoms such as difficulty urinating and residual urine, symptomatic medications can be taken orally. Commonly used drugs include tolterodine, solifenacin, etc.