The main thing about chronic prostatitis is that it can be treated with general therapy and medication. How long it will take to get better can’t be determined, there are individual differences, some patients may get better in a couple of weeks or so, and some patients have a longer course of treatment.
1. General treatment: usually try to avoid eating spicy stimulating food, try not to drink, and avoid sitting for a long time and hold urine, easy to lead to chronic prostatitis aggravation, in addition to local hot compresses or hot water sitz bath way, can relieve due to chronic prostatitis and the pain caused by the symptom, but not to avoid long-term hot water sitz bath, the person who has not had children.
2. medication: in the acute inflammatory period often need to take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as celecoxib, ibuprofen, usually can take antibacterial drugs, such as levofloxacin, norfloxacin, doxycycline and so on. It is also usually necessary to work with alpha-receptor inhibitors, such as doxazosin and terazosin.
Due to the long course of chronic prostatitis treatment is also relatively long, but the specific treatment how long will be better and the patient’s condition and the sensitivity of the drug is related to, some of the efficacy of fast a few weeks will be better, some patients may need to be treated for a few months to get better.