How to treat prostatitis with antibiotics at home
If you have prostatitis primarily doctors prescribe antibiotics. This is explained by the fact that the most frequent cause of inflammation is the presence of bacterial flora. Of course, for the right choice of a drug, it is important to determine the sensitivity of the flora and eliminate contraindications. Otherwise, treatment with antibiotics of prostatitis will be ineffective.
goal of treatment
In that case, if you are using antibiotics, it must fully serve its purpose. It is the suppression of bacterial flora. To cope with this task can only the drug that is selected correctly. To do this, the doctor adheres to the following rules:
- In identifying prostatitis conducted a survey, allowing to determine the form of the pathogen.
- Of no small importance are the results of the study of scientists. They help to understand which bacteria are the most likely to provoke the inflammatory process and which group of drugs will be most effective in each case.
- The presence of concomitant diseases, which may prove to be a contraindication for the use of one or another remedy, is taken into account.
Immediately note that treatment at home is done only after consulting a doctor.
In most cases, remedies recommended by treatment standards are used. This is because it is impossible within 24 hours to obtain the result of the tests for sensitivity to the active components. Typically, this analysis is performed within 5-7 days. To prevent pathology and complications, traditional antibiotics are used.
exception is when there are signs of chronic prostatitis. In this case, the patient's symptoms are not pronounced, which allows to postpone the beginning of treatment until the results of the analysis are obtained and after that to use a means effective in this particular case.
Kinds of antibiotics for prostatitis
Depending on the type of pathogen, certain drugs are used. Most often antibiotic treatment is performed with the appointment of tetracyclines. The drugs in this group are particularly effective against bacteria that provoke urogenital infections. Of all the existing drugs, doxycycline excels with a minimum of contraindications and a low risk of side effects.
The second group of drugs used to treat prostatitis is fluoroquinolones. Indications for their use are acute processes. The main advantage of fluoroquinols is that the active components very quickly penetrate into the tissues and begin to act. Despite the low probability of side effects, you can not take them alone at home.
In more rare cases, macroliths are used. The advantages of drugs include their ability to accumulate in the tissues of the gland. But there are also disadvantages - active components have a narrow spectrum of action.
With a large number of contraindications and absence of results of the bacterial analysis are used cephalosporins. As a rule, the duration of their intake is not more than five days, after which the drug is changed to a more suitable one, based on the type of bacterial flora.
Another type of drugs are penicillins. Here it is important to consider that if the patient often uses antibiotics at home, their effectiveness is reduced. As a rule, preference for colds is given to penicillins. Accordingly, these drugs will no longer be effective against prostatitis and to treat them simply does not make sense.
Features selection
Just note that antibiotic treatment may be administered only by a physician. It is important to take into account that in some cases the bacterial flora is absent. Also, the cause may be fungus or virus. Accordingly, there will be no benefit from antibiotics.
But even in the presence of bacterial flora, it is important to exclude the consequences of taking such drugs. First of all, these are disorders of the digestive organs. Most of the drugs contribute to the removal of not only disease-causing bacteria, but also beneficial intestinal flora. This leads to the development of dysbiosis. To exclude this complication, it is important to use probiotics and prebiotics in parallel with antibiotics.
Rules for prescribing
In order for the therapy to yield only positive results, it is important to take into account some features of the use of antibiotics. During the prescription of the drug the doctor must take into account: the presence of contraindications in the patient;
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- tolerability of antibacterial agents;
- the last fact of using drugs;
- features pathology;
- duration of the disease;
- general condition of the patient.
Antibacterial agents are not recommended for use in the presence of liver pathologies. Allergic mood of the body is the reason for a more careful choice of the remedy, since antibiotics often have a pronounced allergenicity. It is especially important to take into account that a distorted reaction of the organism can arise not on a certain drug, but on a combination of means of different groups.
If, during the past two months, antibiotic treatment has been conducted, the drug group should be considered and another one used, since the effectiveness will be reduced.
In the presence of prostatitis of acute course first-line drugs are used first of all, especially in those cases when the results of the study are not ready. Also, the antibiotic of the reserve group is often used. It is prescribed in cases when therapy with other means does not have an effect. As a rule, they are issued in the form of drip solutions and are prescribed only in a hospital.
The prescribed drug should be taken within a week. But this concerns an acute period. In a chronic process, the duration of therapy is much longer. At home, patients take tablets and capsules more often. With severe inflammation, intramuscular injections are used. In the case of hospitalization, drip infusions are prescribed.
From the video below you will learn about the features of treating prostatitis with antibiotics:
