1. Take Your Pills on Time
Once you are sure that your doctor has confirmed acute prostatitis, it may not be long before you need to pop in a few pills. Your doctor may prescribe antibiotics such as trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, fluoroquinolones and tetracycline derivatives. If indeed, your prostatitis is attributed to an infection such as sexually transmitted disease, you are loking at a 250 mg shot of ceftriaxone followed by a 10-day course of doxycycline or ofloxacin. If it's other harmful microbes wreaking havoc with your prostate, your doctor might as well treat you with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and fluoroquinolones for at least four weeks. To make sure your disease does not come back, you might be required to take the pills for six to eight weeks.
In serious cases, you are looking at a night out at the local hospital with intravenous (IV) medications. It is essential to remember, however, to avoid excessive use of antibiotics to prevent any emergence of resistant strains of bacteria. If for some reason, you had surgery for prostate, researchers say that cephalosporin or carbapenem treatment may be needed.
In any case, it might be a good idea to follow up with your doctor once you are done with the antibiotic therapy. This is just so that the doctor can make sure that infection is no longer lurking within. It is possible that if you have had acute prostatitis there is a chance of the disease coming back. It may then be a case of chronic prostatitis. Fortunately, however, a majority of men who are correctly tested with acute prostatitis become symptom-free after treatment.
2. What Other Options?
Do you want to make sure you have less symptoms and less number of visits to the rest room? It is possible that the swollen prostate is exerting pressure on the urethra. If that's the case, it may be a tall order expecting to completely empty the bladder. You might want to try inserting a tube called suprapubic catheter to empty the bladder via the abdomen. Do you also have pain around the anus and lower back associated with acute prostatitis? How about trying a few warm baths for relief?
3. Control Your Tongue
There is every reason to keep a close eye on what you pop in. You may want to avoid alcoholic drinks, caffeinated food and beverages. Even citrus juices and hot spicy foods can irritate the bladder. Researchers say that increasing the intake of fluids (64 to 128 ounces per day) encourages frequent urination that will help flush the bacteria from the bladder.
