How to take antibiotics for prostatitis?
Prostatitis is an inflammatory disease. Antibiotics is usually prescribed to treat it. There are many different antibiotics for prostatitis, including pills and intravenous drugs. The one prescribed depends on several factors, including the health and allergies of the patient as well as the severity of prostatitis symptoms. Prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland, which is usually caused by infection. It can be either chronic, with recurring symptoms over a period of months, or acute, with rapid onset symptoms.
Prostatitis can cause many uncomfortable feelings. Patients with this condition have an acute urinary tract infection with increased urinary frequency and urgency, need to urinate a lot at night, and have pain in the pelvis and genital area. They often have fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and burning when urinating.
The most common prostatitis antibiotic for prostatitis is ciprofloxacin, given in a dose of 500 milligrams twice daily for 28 days. Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic in the fluoroquinolone class. Patients who have had an allergic or adverse reaction to another fluoroquinolone should not take ciprofloxiacin. Side effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and headache. This antibiotic increases the risk of tendonitis and tendon rupture, which may occur up to several months after treatment has ended.
Thus, antibiotics are always with their side effects. They cannot be used for a long time and may cause damage to the kidneys and liver. It is reported by some patients that the longer they take antibiotics, the worse they feel, other than the decrease of symptoms. In addition to antibiotics for prostatitis, herbal medicine named Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill can treat prostatitis effectively. Compared with antibiotics, traditional Chinese herbal medicine can keep a long-lasting effect, has no side effect and drug resistance. In general, suffers can recover within three months.
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