What is the treatment for acute prostatitis?
• Antibiotics. A four-week course is needed. Antibiotics are generally started before the confirmatory urine test results are back. The first antibiotic may be changed after the result of the urine test is back. The urine test finds exactly which bacterium is causing the infection, and the best antibiotic to treat it. Four weeks of antibiotics are thought to be necessary to reduce the chance that you develop chronic (persistent) prostatitis. • Paracetamol or ibuprofen ease pain and fever (high temperature). They are best taken regularly rather than ‘now and then’. Stronger painkillers are sometimes needed. • Laxatives can keep your stools (faeces) soft, if needed. They may help ease pain if you have hard stools in your rectum (back passage), pressing on your infected prostate.
