Comprimidos de Flavoxato

About flavoxate

Flavoxate is prescribed to treat Sintomas urinários como urgência, frequência e incontinência. Urinary urgency occurs when you have a sudden and urgent need to pass urine. If you need to take more trips to the toilet than normal, this is called urinary frequency. If you leak urine before you go to the toilet, this is called incontinência.

These symptoms can cause you distress as well as being a hygiene problem. There are several causes of urinary incontinence, including weakened pelvic floor muscles and problems causing your bladder muscles to go into spasm as a result of a medical procedure.

Flavoxate works by stopping sudden bladder muscle contractions and increasing the volume of urine that your bladder can hold. This helps to control urinary symptoms and eases any pain or discomfort.

Before taking flavoxate

Some medicines are not suitable for people with certain conditions, and sometimes a medicine may only be used if extra care is taken. For these reasons, before you start taking flavoxate it is important that your doctor knows:

• Se você está grávida ou amamentando.

• Se você tem uma condição cardíaca, como um ritmo cardíaco incomum, problemas com os vasos sanguíneos do seu coração ou insuficiência cardíaca.

• Se você tiver algum problema com sua glândula prostática.

• If you have any of the following conditions: increased pressure in your eye (glaucoma); hiatus hernia; an overactive thyroid gland; high blood pressure; a condition causing muscle weakness, called myasthenia gravis.

• If you have a condition which could cause a blockage in your stomach, bowel or urinary tract, or if you have noticed any blood in your stools.

• Se você já teve uma reação alérgica a um medicamento.

• Se você estiver tomando outros medicamentos. Isso inclui quaisquer medicamentos que você esteja tomando e que estejam disponíveis para compra sem receita médica, bem como medicamentos fitoterápicos e complementares.

How to take flavoxate

• Before you start the treatment, read the manufacturer's printed information leaflet from inside the pack. It will give you more information about flavoxate and will provide you with a full list of the side-effects which you may experience from taking it.

• Take the tablets exactly as your doctor tells you to. The usual dose is one tablet three times a day.

• Try to take the tablets at the same times of day each day, as this will help you to remember to take your doses regularly. You can take flavoxate either before or after meals. Swallow the tablet whole with a drink of water.

• If you forget to take a dose at your usual time, take it as soon as you remember. Try to take the correct number of doses each day but do not take two doses at the same time to make up for a missed dose.

Obtendo o máximo do seu tratamento

• Tente manter suas consultas regulares com seu médico. Isso é para que seu médico possa verificar seu progresso e revisar seu tratamento.

• Bebidas que contêm cafeína (por exemplo, chá, café, chocolate quente e refrigerante de cola) podem piorar seus sintomas. Isso ocorre porque a cafeína aumenta o fluxo urinário (é um diurético natural) e fará com que você queira urinar. Se você consome muitas bebidas com cafeína, considere mudar para alternativas descafeinadas.

• Try to maintain a normal life as much as possible with regard to drinking and visiting the toilet. However, drinking late at night may mean your sleep is disturbed by the desire to get up to go to the toilet, so you may want to avoid drinking too much during the evening.

• Seu médico pode sugerir que você faça alguns exercícios para o assoalho pélvico para fortalecer os músculos ao redor da parte inferior da sua bexiga. Estes podem ajudar a melhorar seus sintomas.

• If you buy any medicines or herbal remedies, always check with a pharmacist that they are suitable to take with flavoxate. Some medicines (particularly antihistamines) can increase the chance that you will experience unwanted effects such as a dry mouth and feeling sleepy.

Can flavoxate cause problems?

Along with their useful effects, most medicines can cause unwanted side-effects although not everyone experiences them. The table below contains some of the common ones associated with flavoxate. You will find a full list in the manufacturer's information leaflet supplied with your medicine. The unwanted effects often improve as your body adjusts to the new medicine, but speak with your doctor or pharmacist if any of the following continue or become troublesome.

Se você sentir quaisquer outros sintomas que acha que podem ser causados pelos comprimidos, por favor, fale com seu médico ou farmacêutico para mais orientações.

How to store flavoxate

• Mantenha todos os medicamentos fora do alcance e da vista das crianças.

• Armazene em local fresco e seco, longe de calor e luz diretos.

Informações importantes sobre todos os medicamentos