Choosing cold and flu remedies with caution in patients with prostate enlargement

Many patients with prostate enlargement have worsening symptoms, difficulty urinating, or even acute urinary retention after taking cold medicine. What is the reason for this? When the bladder is full of urine, the body’s nerves innervating urinary activity are excited and the nerve endings release a substance called acetylcholine. And such as: fast-acting wind capsule, sense of Kang, VC silver warping tablets, Contac, Kshenmin, cold particles punch and many other compound preparation drugs, all contain the ingredients of paracetamol. Paracetamol can destroy the activity of acetylcholine, so that the urinary function of the bladder is reduced, thus making it difficult for people to urinate further aggravated, and even the inability to urinate. So prostate enlargement patients try to avoid the application of cold medicines containing paracetamol ingredients when they have a cold. Of course, and paracetamol similar desensitizing drugs also try to avoid the application. Such as: Benadryl, Finagan, Mindy and so on. It is recommended to choose the pure Chinese medicine preparation when you have a cold, according to the patient’s wind-cold, wind-heat different selection of appropriate cold medicine, but also to avoid the aggravation of the symptoms of prostate hyperplasia aggravation.