A sedentary lifestyle, constant stress and hypothermia, irregular sex, bacteria entering the urethra - all these are the reasons for the development of the inflammatory process of the prostate.
Inflammation of the prostate gland is the most common male disease.However, his therapy is a long and laborious process.
In order for the treatment of the disease to be as effective as possible, urologists prescribe comprehensive measures, including the use of herbal medicines and visits to physiotherapeutic procedures.But medications play an important role in treatment.
Only a specialist decides which drugs to prescribe for the treatment of prostatitis in men, but there is a list that includes the most effective drugs.
Manifestations of the development of inflammation of the prostate
Inflammation of the prostate can be cured quickly only in the initial stage of development, so it is necessary to contact a specialist as soon as the first signs of the disease appear.
Any of the following symptoms may indicate the development of the disease:
- Pain in the perineal area;
- A feeling of discomfort that appears during bowel movements;
- Constant sensation of fullness of the bladder;
- The appearance of pain and an intermittent, thin stream during urination;
- White or mucous discharge and blood are observed in the urine;
- Slow and uncontrolled erection;
- Rapid ejaculation;
- Loss of sexual desire;
- Excessive and unreasonable tiredness;
With a bacterial disease, signs may include an increase in temperature up to 37-38 degrees, but in some cases it can reach 40 degrees.
The specialist, after carrying out an examination and studying the results of the necessary tests, will determine the form and causes of the development of the disease.
The disease can occur due to the action of harmful bacteria, as well as due to stagnant processes occurring in the pelvis.Depending on the nature and causes of the pathology, the urologist will prescribe the most effective medicine.
Forms of prescribed medications
After making a diagnosis, the urologist will tell you how to treat prostatitis in men, and will also explain what form the drugs for prostatitis take.
Forms that drugs for the treatment of prostatitis have:
- rectal suppositories.Treated with direct impact on the affected organ;
- injections.Injections are the fastest-acting way to introduce the prostatitis remedy into the patient's body;
- solutions for instillation.This form of medication involves injecting the drug into the male urethra;
- microenema solutions.With the help of microenemas it is possible to carry out both pharmacological treatment of prostatitis and therapy with folk remedies;
- tablet.This type of medicine often contains antibiotics used to treat the prostate gland.
Groups of drugs prescribed for inflammation of the gland
In the treatment of inflammation of the prostate in men, several groups of drugs are used.For the bacterial form of the disease, antibiotics are the mainstay of therapy.Most often, antibacterial drugs in tablets are prescribed for acute or chronic inflammation of the male gland;they must be taken for about a month.
If complications occur, the disease is treated with antibiotics in the form of an injectable solution.If specialists have not identified a specific group of causative agents of the disease, combined antimicrobial therapy is used.
Those antibiotic drugs that belong to the group have a negative effect on prostatitis:
- Tetracyclines.
- Fluoroquinols.
- Penicillin.
- Macrolides.
- Cephalosporins.
If the disease has a manifestation such as pain, painkillers are prescribed.
For prostatitis, these medications should be taken only as prescribed by your doctor;uncontrolled use of analgesics is fraught with side effects and complications.
It is believed that among painkillers, drugs with the active ingredient ibuprofen are the most effective for inflammation of the male prostate organ.
For chronic abacterial inflammation of the prostatic organ, alpha-blockers are prescribed.These drugs have a relaxing effect on the muscles and neck of the bladder.This effect helps reduce the pain that occurs during urination.
If signs such as pain in the perineal area are observed during the inflammatory process, drugs from the group of muscle relaxants that reduce muscle tone in the inguinal area are prescribed.
In addition, substances containing the hormone testosterone are used to treat the disease.In diseases of the male organ, the level of this substance in the body decreases.The result of hormonal imbalance is the proliferation of prostate tissue.Hormone-containing medications help reduce inflammation and stabilize hormone levels.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are often used to relieve swelling, fever, and pain.The most effective drugs are in the form of rectal suppositories.
If the disease is viral, antiviral drugs are used.
Adjuvant therapy includes drugs that improve blood flow and agents that enhance immune defense.Drugs that promote tissue regeneration are also prescribed.
The most effective drugs for prostate inflammation
It is impossible to answer unequivocally how to treat prostatitis in men with medications and other therapeutic procedures.After all, even the best antibiotic will be ineffective in treating a viral disease.
Medicines for the treatment of chronic inflammation of the prostate
Prostatitis is an inflammatory disease of the prostate gland in men.In the absence of therapy in the initial stage (in the acute phase), this process becomes chronic in 80% of cases.At the same time, the course of the disease becomes irregular: long periods of calm of symptoms are replaced by exacerbations.In case of chronic prostatitis, treatment is a much more complex process than the treatment of acute inflammation of the gland and requires an integrated approach, based on drugs of different types and groups.
What should the drugs fight?
Before selecting a set of drugs that will help cope with the chronic form of prostatitis, it is necessary to remember what this disease is and what processes occur in the gland.
The inflammatory process in 70% of cases is caused by the presence of pathogenic microflora in the prostate tissue.It can be a genitourinary infection (gonorrhea, syphilis and others) or other bacteria and viruses.The remaining 30% is responsible for gland congestion in men.Lack of oxygen and nutrition, as well as saturation of tissues with toxins and waste products (products of the vital activity of prostate cells) can cause pathologies.
The inflammatory process is accompanied by swelling of the gland.As a rule, this is due to the fact that the prostate is not able to fully supply the body with hormones and other active substances necessary for normal functioning (compensation phase).In addition, with a chronic disease, pus may form, which clogs the ducts, as a result of which testosterone production and secretions are further reduced.
Depending on how the disease progresses, what changes have occurred in the prostate gland and how deep they are, the doctor selects a number of drugs, the list of which includes:
- antimicrobial drugs or simply antibiotics: their prescription is required in case of inflammation of bacterial origin;
- antiviral agents, interferon and gamma globulin - are prescribed for viral origin of prostatitis;
- antifungal agents (antifungals) - necessary in cases where prostatitis occurs due to the spread of a fungal infection to the gland, as well as when prostatitis is bacterial in nature, requiring long-term use of antibiotics;
- alpha blockers - prescribed to reduce spasm and pain;
- muscle relaxants: they relax the muscular structures of the prostate and pelvic organs, promoting better nutrition of the glandular tissue;
- anti-inflammatory drugs: fight the manifestations of the disease, reduce swelling;
- hormonal drugs - used to restore hormone levels in men.
The exact list of medications presented above will be different for each patient.The doctor decides which drugs to include and which not to include based on laboratory tests on urethral smears, prostatic secretions, urine and blood taken from men in the diagnostic phase.
Antibiotics for chronic prostatitis
Antibiotics for chronic inflammation of the prostate are prescribed in most cases, even when bacterial culture does not reveal the presence of microorganisms in the secretion and smear of the urethra.
Before prescribing a specific medicine, the doctor must determine whether the pathogens will be sensitive to a particular antibiotic.Otherwise there is a risk of wasting time by taking an ineffective drug in a particular case.
Antimicrobial drugs belonging to the group of fluoroquinolones are considered the most effective in the treatment of chronic prostatitis.
Drugs of this type are distinguished by their ability to penetrate deeply and in sufficient concentration into the prostate tissue.To achieve the effect, their use should last 4 weeks or more (depending on the severity of the disease, the selected dosage and the susceptibility of the pathogenic microflora to the antibiotic).
Important!Fluoroquinolone antibiotics may have a suppressive effect on sperm.When planning a pregnancy, you should start trying to conceive a child no earlier than 2 months after the end of the course of treatment.
During treatment with antibiotics, concomitant use of antifungal drugs is recommended in men.This is due to the fact that drugs with antibacterial activity can also suppress beneficial microflora, which keeps the level of fungi in the body normal.Therefore, a favorable environment for the development of a fungal infection may occur in the body of men, the treatment of which requires taking drugs with different effects.
Alpha blockers - analgesics and antispasmodics for chronic prostatitis
Spasm and pain are typical symptoms of prostatitis.To reduce spasm and thereby eliminate discomfort, treatment should include taking alpha-blockers.They not only relieve spasm of the glandular muscle tissue of the prostate, but also relax the bladder sphincter.In addition, such drugs significantly reduce pain during prostatitis in the acute phase.
Drug treatment with these drugs reduces discomfort and pain during urination in men, but they have many side effects and a large list of contraindications.That is why they should be taken only as prescribed by a specialist.Furthermore, these drugs are effective only for the nonbacterial etiology of prostatitis.If the inflammation of the gland is due to an infection, experts tend to choose other drugs to treat pain and spasms.
Hormonal drugs for prostatitis
The main reason why hormonal treatment for chronic prostatitis may be prescribed is the overgrowth of the prostate gland in men.Typically, this situation requires a decrease in testosterone levels.The result of therapy is a reduction in the size of the prostate, the normalization of hormone levels and a decrease in the symptomatic manifestations of the disease.
Hormone treatment is carried out exclusively as prescribed by a doctor and only under his supervision.It requires constant monitoring of hormone levels, which helps prevent numerous negative effects of drugs on the functions of internal organs in men.
Antiviral drugs for prostatitis
If viruses are the cause of prostatitis, treatment is carried out using appropriate drugs.
In addition, drugs with anti-inflammatory effect from the NSAID group are prescribed for men.
Both antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed in the form of tablets, but a more pronounced and rapid effect, according to urologists, is achieved when using drugs in the form of suppositories.
This treatment is complemented by taking immunomodulators.They help men produce more antibodies in their bodies, which actively resist infections due to prostatitis.As a result, treatment takes less time.