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, its therapy is a labor-intensive and lengthy 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 a major role in treatment.
Only a specialist decides which medications to prescribe for the treatment of prostatitis in men, but there is a list that includes the most effective medications.
Manifestations of the development of prostate inflammation
Prostate inflammation can be quickly cured only at the initial stage of development, so you need 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 feeling of bladder fullness;
- The occurrence of pain and an intermittent, thin stream when urinating;
- White or mucous discharge and blood are observed in the urine;
- Sluggish uncontrolled erection;
- Fast ejaculation;
- Loss of sexual desire;
- Excessive unreasonable fatigue;
With a bacterial disease, signs may include an increase in temperature to 37-38 degrees, but in some cases it is possible to reach 40 degrees.
The specialist, after performing an examination and studying the necessary test results, will determine the form and causes of the development of the disease.
The disease can appear 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
Having made 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 by direct impact on the affected organ;
- injections.Injections are the fastest-acting way to get the remedy for prostatitis into the patient’s body;
- solutions for instillation.This form of medication involves injecting the drug into the male urethra;
- solutions for microenemas.With the help of microenemas, both drug treatment of prostatitis and therapy with folk remedies can be carried out;
- tablet.This medicinal type most often has antibiotics used to treat the prostate gland.
Groups of medications prescribed for inflammation of the gland
In the treatment of inflammation of the prostate gland in men, several groups of medications are used.For the bacterial form of the disease, antibiotics are the mainstay of therapy.Most often, antibacterial medications in tablets are prescribed for acute or chronic inflammation of the male gland; they need to be taken for about a month.
If complications occur, the disease is treated with antibiotics in the form of an injection solution.If specialists have not identified a specific group of causative agents of the disease, combination 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 such a manifestation as pain, painkillers are prescribed.
For prostatitis, these drugs should be taken only as prescribed by a doctor; uncontrolled use of analgesics is fraught with side effects and complications.
It is believed that among painkillers, medications with the active substance ibuprofen are most effective for inflammation of the male prostate organ.
For chronic abacterial inflammation of the prostate organ, alpha-blockers are prescribed.These medications have a relaxing effect on the muscles and neck of the bladder.This effect helps reduce pain that occurs when urinating.
If signs such as pain in the perineal area are observed during the inflammatory process, medications from the group of muscle relaxants are prescribed that reduce muscle tone in the groin area.
Also, 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 hormonal levels.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications are often used to relieve swelling, fever and pain.The most effective medications are in the form of rectal suppositories.
If the disease is viral, antiviral medications are used.
Adjuvant therapy is provided with drugs that improve blood flow and agents that enhance immune defense.Medicines that promote tissue regeneration are also prescribed.
The most effective medications for prostate inflammation
It is impossible to unequivocally answer 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 illness.
Medicines for the treatment of chronic prostate inflammation
Prostatitis is an inflammatory disease of the prostate gland in men.In the absence of therapy at the initial stage (in the acute stage), this process becomes chronic in 80% of cases.At the same time, the course of the disease becomes uneven: 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, which is based on drugs of several types and groups.
What should medications combat?
Before selecting a set of medications 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.This can be a genitourinary infection (gonorrhea, syphilis and others), or other bacteria and viruses.The remaining 30% accounts for congestion in the gland 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 provoke pathology.
The inflammatory process is accompanied by swelling of the gland.As a rule, this is due to the fact that the prostate cannot fully provide the body with the hormones and other active substances necessary for normal functioning (compensation stage).In addition, with a chronic disease, pus can form in it, which clogs the ducts, as a result of which the production of testosterone and secretions is further reduced.
Based on how the disease progresses, what changes have occurred in the prostate gland and how deep they are, the doctor selects a set 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 (antimycotic) agents - needed in cases where prostatitis occurs due to the spread of a fungal infection to the gland, as well as when prostatitis is of a bacterial nature, requiring long-term use of antibiotics;
- alpha blockers - prescribed to reduce spasm and pain;
- muscle relaxants - relax the muscular structures of the prostate and pelvic organs, which promotes better nutrition of the gland tissue;
- anti-inflammatory drugs - fight the manifestations of the disease, reduce swelling;
- hormonal medications - used to restore hormonal levels in men.
The exact list of drugs presented above will be different for each patient.The doctor decides which medications to include and which ones should not be based on laboratory tests of a smear from the urethra, prostatic secretions, urine and blood taken from men at the diagnostic stage.
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 in a smear from 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 taking a drug that is ineffective 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 an 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 can have a suppressive effect on sperm.When planning a pregnancy, it is necessary to start trying to conceive a child no earlier than 2 months after the end of their course of treatment.
During treatment with antibiotics, concurrent use of antifungal drugs is recommended for men.This is due to the fact that drugs with antibacterial activity can also suppress beneficial microflora, which kept the level of fungi in the body normal.Thus, a favorable environment for the development of a fungal infection may arise in the body of men, the treatment of which requires taking drugs of a different effect.
Alpha blockers - analgesics and antispasmodics for chronic prostatitis
Spasm and pain are typical symptoms of prostatitis.To reduce spasm and therefore get rid of 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 stage.
Drug treatment with these drugs reduces discomfort and pain when urinating in men, but they have a lot of side effects and an extensive list of contraindications.That is why they should be taken only as prescribed by a specialist.In addition, these drugs are effective only for non-bacterial etiology of prostatitis.If the inflammation of the gland is due to infection, experts tend to choose other medications to treat pain and spasm.
Hormonal drugs for prostatitis
The main reason why hormonal treatment for chronic prostatitis may be prescribed is excessive growth 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, normalization of hormonal levels and a decrease in the symptomatic manifestations of the disease.
Hormonal treatment is carried out exclusively as prescribed by a doctor and only under his supervision.It requires constant monitoring of hormonal levels, which helps prevent the 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 medications.
Additionally, for men, drugs with an anti-inflammatory effect from the NSAID group are prescribed.
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 supplemented by taking immunomodulators.They help men produce more of their own antibodies in their bodies, which actively resist infections due to prostatitis.As a result, treatment requires less time.