Prostatitis and its treatment is one of the most painful issues in men who suffer from this ailment. Treatment of prostatitis, according to experts, is a process consisting of many completely different procedures: physiotherapy, medication, massage. Only a comprehensive impact on the problem can help to eliminate the unpleasant symptoms, and most importantly, the cause of the disease. The main role in this is assigned to drugs in the form of tablets, injections and suppositories.
Medications for the treatment of prostatitis are selected by the attending physician. The set of means depends on the form of disease the patient has. Also, the type of infection that caused the inflammation of the prostate plays an important role. All doctors pay attention to these two factors first. What else can influence the choice of medications? We will talk about this a little later. But first, let's try to find out what problems men have with prostatitis and what they have to deal with.
How to understand that this is prostatitis?
Prostatitis treatment cannot begin without patient complaints. What signs can indicate that a man is sick with him? Experts agree that the initial stage of the disease may not manifest itself at all. Men often confuse weakness and fatigue, which appear early in the disease, with common fatigue, vitamin deficiency, and stress. And only when the inflammation covers the entire prostate, they may notice pain above the pubis, radiating to the rectum, difficulty urinating, and a constant need to go to the bathroom. It is with such complaints that patients most often go to polyclinics. At this stage of the development of the disease, the treatment of prostatitis with pills gives good results. The risk of it becoming chronic is minimal.
However, about 25% of men with prostatitis symptoms are in no rush to visit a doctor and hold on. In this case, the complaints are much more serious. In addition to constant pulling pains, men complain of decreased potency, lack of erection, or ejaculation that is too fast. In the urine of these patients, blood fibers, scales and inclusions are visually observed. Treating prostatitis at this stage is a very complex process.
It is almost impossible to cope with the disease with pills alone. Also, the risk of complications, such as calculous prostatitis, increases significantly.
Reasons for prostatitis
What can cause prostatitis in men? Treatment (medication) begins with this question. At the end of the day, it is precisely the diagnosis that is made that helps to choose the right drugs for each case. Young men are most often victims of prostatitis, which developed as a result of genital infections they had suffered: herpes, candidiasis, chlamydia, cytomegalovirus, trichomoniasis, etc. Also, inflammation of the prostate develops as a result of regular hypothermia or stagnation in the small pelvis due to a sedentary lifestyle.
In mature men, prostatitis appears most often as a result of inflammatory diseases of the internal organs, stress, purulent inflammatory processes on the skin, as well as after influenza or other viral infections.
Elderly patients begin to suffer from prostatitis due to prolonged sexual abstinence. Also, a decrease in immunity and chronic inflammatory processes of internal organs can be the cause of your disease.
Based on these statistics, as well as instrumental and laboratory studies, the doctor selects drugs for the treatment of prostatitis.
Treatment method
There are several important aspects in the medical treatment of pathology. All of them are aimed at restoring prostate tissue, eliminating inflammation and fighting the microorganisms that caused the disease. Symptomatic treatment of prostatitis in men is also of great importance. Medications in this case relieve pain and spasms.
Elimination of symptoms is not the most important thing in treating inflammation of the prostate. Antimicrobial and antiviral drugs for the treatment of prostatitis are much more important. Your choice is made according to the results of laboratory tests. In this case, not only the type of pathogen is taken into account, but also the sensitivity of the patient's body to drugs.
What else is needed to eliminate prostatitis in men? Treatment (medication) necessarily includes taking drugs that restore immune status. This allows the patient's body to resist infection on its own. Also, attention is paid to the restoration of power (if there are problems).
Treatment methods such as prostate massage, herbal medicine, and special nutrition also help restore prostate function.
Types and forms of drugs for prostatitis
So, we found out which treatment methods are considered the most effective today. Since drugs for the treatment of prostatitis are considered the main measure to combat the disease, it is worth considering in more detail which forms are used most often:
- Antibiotics and antiviral medications: in the form of tablets, rectal suppositories, and injections.
- Alpha 1 blockers: in the form of tablets or capsules.
- Hormonal preparations for the treatment of prostatitis and prostate adenoma, in the form of tablets.
- 5-alpha reductase inhibitors: tablets or capsules.
- Phytopreparations: in the form of tablets, capsules filled with powder or lozenges.
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, in the form of tablets or solution for injection.
The attending physician, after a complete examination of the patient, decides how prostatitis will be treated: with pills, injections and / or suppositories.
What medications are most often used when a man is diagnosed with an enlarged prostate? The names of many drugs mean nothing to most patients, and some commercials speak of 2-3 remedies that can help in the fight against prostatitis. Next, we will consider each group of drugs for this ailment in more detail.
Anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
The prostatitis drugs in this group are designed to relieve pain and inflammation. They can also lower body temperature in acute prostatitis. The most suitable drugs are:
- Rectal suppositories and diclofenac sodium injections.
- Ketorolac trometamol tablets and solution for injection.
Both drugs have contraindications. Basically, its intake affects the digestive system of patients, therefore, in most cases, the treatment regimen is a three-day course with a weekly interval between them. But the drug "Ketorolac" is recommended for single use for high intensity pain.
Antibiotics and antiviral drugs for prostatitis
Antibiotics and antivirals are completely new drugs for the treatment of prostatitis. The fact is that penicillin and similar substances cannot sufficiently penetrate the prostate barrier and accumulate in the tissues of the gland. Therefore, long-known antibiotics are not effective enough. What medications can be taken for inflammation of the prostate? Here is a list of them:
- Tablets and injections that belong to the subgroup of protected amoxicillins and are effective in acute and chronic prostatitis.
- Injectable solutions Cefotaxime, Ceftazidim or Ceftriaxone. Although very effective, these antibiotics have virtually no side effects.
- Tablets and injections Azithromycin and Josamycin, related to macrolides. With its help, you can fight against microorganisms inside the cells of the diseased organ, that is, the prostate.
- Norfloxacin, ofloxacin, or ciprofloxacin tablets and capsules. Besides the antimicrobial action, they produce an immunomodulatory effect.
- Ciprofloxacin and acyclovir tablets are prescribed for patients who have a viral infection causing inflammation of the prostate.
So, we have listed the main drugs that are used to treat prostatitis in men. Medications should be selected and prescribed only by a specialist!
Preparations to increase immunity
Any inflammatory process, including prostatitis, occurs against the background of reduced immunity. That is why it is important to take immunomodulators. The most effective for prostatitis are:
- interferon alfa and taktivin tablets, which protect against foreign microorganisms;
- T-cell stimulator Levamisole;
- tablets containing sodium nucleinate, which increase the activity of macrophage cells;
- drugs methyluracil and dried juice of the herb Echinacea purpurea, stimulating cellular immunity.
All the above medications are prescribed by the attending physician. It also calculates the required dose and the duration of the fundraising. It is not recommended to wear them alone!
Herbal remedies for prostatitis
Despite the abundance of synthetic drugs, the treatment of prostatitis takes less time with the regular intake of special phytopreparations.
Means, normalize urination
Drugs in this group are used mainly for chronic prostatitis. It is this form of the disease that implies the presence of problems urinating. As a general rule, alpha-1 blockers help relieve inflammation of the prostate tissue.
The most popular remedies for prostatitis
Currently, doctors who specialize in the treatment of male diseases, including prostatitis, prefer to prescribe complex drugs to patients that combine several properties at once. For example, the prostate extract injection solution is effective in both acute and chronic prostatitis. Its use helps activate the immune system, strengthen the vascular and cell walls of the prostate. As a result of therapy with the use of this remedy, blood circulation in the pelvic organs is normalized, the restoration of prostate tissues occurs several times faster. Also, drugs are often used to treat chronic prostatitis in the form of rectal suppositories.
Should I take hormones for prostatitis?
Hormonal drugs are not used for acute and chronic prostatitis. The only condition under which a doctor can prescribe hormone-containing drugs is the presence of a benign or malignant tumor in the prostate gland.
In conclusion, I would like to remind readers once again that all medications mentioned in this article are prescribed by the attending physician. Self-administration of medications can have unpredictable consequences.