Today, modern medicine can offer medications with a wide variety of therapeutic effects for the treatment of a disease called prostatitis. If we talk about even the most complex and severe manifestations of this disease, they can be cured if you follow all the doctor’s prescriptions and engage in comprehensive treatment.
Prostatitis– the most common urological disease, which is an inflammatory process in the prostate gland. According to statistics, approximately 3 out of 5 men aged 20 to 50 years suffer from prostatitis. Even starting from the age of 16-18, you can catch this disease, for example, with banal hypothermia of the pelvic area. Complications of advanced forms of this disease are impotence, infertility, inflammatory diseases of other organs of the genitourinary system, as well as prostate cancer.
Since there are many reasons for the development of prostatitis, it is impossible to single out the most effective cure for prostatitis.
In the presence of infectious and non-infectious forms of the inflammatory process, a wide variety of types of medications or their complex combinations are used. The choice of drugs is particularly influenced by the patient’s general condition, the presence of concomitant diseases and complications.
Types of therapeutic treatment depending on the form of the disease
Drugs for the treatment of prostatitis are available in a wide variety of pharmaceutical forms. These medications can be in the form of tablets, capsules, injections, and rectal suppositories. Using these medications in combination, you can get a faster positive result and almost complete recovery.
The complex of treatment procedures includes antibacterial therapy, prostate massage, immunostimulation and physiotherapy. Correcting the patient’s lifestyle plays a huge role in the treatment of prostate diseases.
Quite recently, traditional medicine has recognized traditional methods of combating prostatitis. Certain medicinal preparations can be purchased in ready-made form at the pharmacy, while others can be collected and prepared independently. This herbal collection includes anti-inflammatory, diuretic, relaxing and soothing herbs; this treatment can be used in addition to the main course of treatment after consultation with a qualified specialist.
Treatment of acute form
The acute form of prostatitis is caused by various bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms. The main symptoms of this disease include general intoxication of the body, elevated body temperature and chills. Quite often there is pain in the groin area and lower back, and there is an increased urge to urinate. The process of urination is quite painful and is accompanied by the release of pus from the urethra.
Treatment of acute conditions– the use of prostatitis medications such as antibiotics. They have a fairly broad spectral activity and are able to penetrate prostate tissue. The most common types are macrolides, cephalosporins, protected penicillins, and fluoroquinolones.
The choice of an effective drug always depends on the type of microorganisms and their sensitivity to a particular type of antibiotic. Treatment is mainly outpatient; in particularly advanced cases, with severe intoxication, urgent hospitalization is indicated; in the presence of serious complications, surgical intervention is recommended.
Chronic stage
Chronic inflammation of the gland is the result of an acute phase suffered without appropriate treatment, or an incompletely cured acute course of the disease. Characteristic symptoms are nagging pain in the genital area, perineum or rectum. There may be a burning sensation during urination, worsening sleep, and irritability. Complications of the chronic course are male infertility, erectile dysfunction, inflammatory process of the pelvic organs.
Treatment should be outpatient, but takes a longer period than in the acute form. Medicines for the treatment of the chronic form must be selected by a specialist strictly individually; the choice of necessary drugs depends on the quality of previous treatment and the sensitivity of bacterial agents. In addition to antibiotics, immunomodulators, analgesics, physiotherapeutic procedures and prostate massage are used.
At this stage, medications such as rectal suppositories (suppositories) have found widespread use. They effectively combat swelling of the gland, increase local immunity, improve blood microcirculation, and inhibit pathogenic microorganisms. The most popular preparations are products based on an extract from the tissue of the prostate gland of bulls.
Quite often one can observe cases such as asymptomatic chronic prostatitis, which does not have obvious signs and occurs latently in the body. The treating specialist knows what medicine to take in this case, but most often drugs with antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects are recommended.
Preventive measures
After a course of antibiotic therapy for acute prostatitis, you need to take medications aimed at combating relapses and preventing chronicity.
For this purpose, herbal preparations and immunocorrectors are prescribed. Prostate massage is quite effective as a preventative treatment.
In addition, you should adjust your lifestyle and exercise more often. Methods of special gymnastics have been developed, which are designed to improve the functioning of the prostate gland and other organs of the genitourinary system. It is important to have a regular sexual partner and lead a normal sex life.
Therapy of the acute and especially chronic stages of inflammation of the prostate gland is a rather long and financially expensive process. Often it is not possible to cure it completely; the use of medications only helps relieve symptoms and improve the patient’s well-being. Therefore, the best treatment for prostatitis is timely preventive measures.
New treatment methods
Modern treatment methods do not stand still. More and more new drugs for inflammation of the prostate gland are being developed periodically. These include adrenergic blockers, they relieve spasms in the bladder, sphincter and prostate itself, this promotes the free release of gland secretions, and also prevents congestion and swelling.
Sometimes female hormones are used to treat inflammatory processes in the prostate gland. They reduce the process of inflammation and can cure it in combination with other medications.
To quickly obtain the desired effect from the treatment of any form of prostatitis, medications should be prescribed exclusively by a specialist urologist-andrologist. After studying the patient’s condition and passing all the tests, identifying all possible concomitant diseases and complications, the specialist will create an individual physiotherapeutic and medicinal complex. Only compliance with all the specialist’s recommendations allows patients to achieve complete recovery.