Flavoxate Hydrochloride
About Flavoxate Hydrochloride
Flavoxate Hydrochloride is used to treat muscle spasms of the urinary tract, which could occur due to inflammation of the bladder, urethra, or prostate gland. It is also used to relieve symptoms that may occur due to surgery, painful urination, inability to control urine flow, and excessive urination at night.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride contains 'Flavoxate hydrochloride', which relaxes the muscles of the urinary bladder. It also helps in relieving the associated pain due to the inflammation and contraction of the urinary bladder caused by urinary incontinence.
In some cases, you may experience side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, stomach upset, gastric pain, dry mouth, and drowsiness. Most of these side effects do not require medical attention and will resolve over time. However, talk to your doctor if you experience these side effects persistently.
Do not take Flavoxate Hydrochloride if you are allergic to any of its components; if you have gastrointestinal bleeding, obstruction in food passage, muscular inability to swallow, urinary retention, closed-angle glaucoma (eye pressure disease), or muscle weakness. Consult your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Uses of Flavoxate Hydrochloride
• Muscle spasms of the urinary tract: Flavoxate Hydrochloride helps to relieve muscle spasms in the urinary tract, reducing symptoms like painful urination, frequent urination, and discomfort.
• Smooth Muscle Relaxation: Flavoxate Hydrochloride helps to relax the muscles in the bladder and urinary tract, providing relief from spasms and associated discomfort.
• Management of Painful Urination: Flavoxate Hydrochloride helps in alleviating painful urination by relaxing the bladder and urinary tract muscles, providing relief from discomfort caused by infections or other conditions.
• Adjunct Treatment for Cystitis: Flavoxate Hydrochloride is often used as an adjunct treatment for cystitis, helping to relieve symptoms like painful urination and spasms, making it easier to manage the condition.
• Frequent urination: Flavoxate Hydrochloride helps treat frequent urination by relaxing the bladder muscles, reducing spasms, and alleviating discomfort associated with urinary tract issues.
Medicinal Benefits
- Flavoxate Hydrochloride is an antispasmodic that helps relax smooth muscles in the urinary bladder and urethra.
- By inhibiting involuntary bladder contractions, it helps reduce urinary urgency and discomfort.
- It helps relieve pain, burning sensation, and irritation caused by bladder or urethral inflammation.
- It helps reduce urinary incontinence (loss of bladder control) and frequent nighttime urination (nocturia).
- Flavoxate Hydrochloride is useful in treating spasms associated with prostate inflammation, cystitis, and other urinary tract disorders, improving overall urinary comfort and bladder function.
Directions for Use
- Flavoxate Hydrochloride can be taken with or without food. However, taking it with food may help reduce stomach upset.
- It is usually taken three to four times a day or as advised by your doctor.
- Swallow the whole Flavoxate Hydrochloride with a glass of water.
- Do not break, chew, or crush it.
Storage
Side Effects of Flavoxate Hydrochloride
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Stomach upset
- Gastric pain
- Dry mouth
- Drowsiness
Drug Warnings
- Do not take Flavoxate Hydrochloride if you are allergic to any of its contents; if you have gastrointestinal bleeding, obstruction in food passage, muscular inability to swallow, urinary retention, glaucoma, or muscle weakness.
- Consult your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding; your doctor will prescribe you Flavoxate Hydrochloride only if the benefits outweigh the risks.
- Flavoxate Hydrochloride may cause drowsiness, so drive with caution.
- Flavoxate Hydrochloride is not recommended for children as safety and efficacy have not been established.
- Avoid consuming alcohol with Flavoxate Hydrochloride as it could lead to increased drowsiness.
- Inform your doctor about your health conditions and medications to rule out any side effects.
Drug Interactions
Drug-Drug Interactions: Flavoxate Hydrochloride may interact with anti-convulsant (topiramate and valproic acid), antihistamine (diphenhydramine, chlorpheniramine, and cetirizine), anti-anxiety (alprazolam and duloxetine), pain killer (acetaminophen), anti-cholinergic (oxybutynin), and anti-depressant (fluoxetine).
Drug-Food Interactions: No interactions found/established.
Drug-Disease Interactions: Inform your doctor if you have urinary obstruction, gastrointestinal obstruction, muscle weakness, gastrointestinal bleeding, or glaucoma.
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Safety Advice
Alcohol
unsafeYou are recommended to avoid alcohol consumption while taking Flavoxate Hydrochloride. Alcohol intake, along with Flavoxate Hydrochloride, may cause increased drowsiness.
Pregnancy
cautionPlease consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this; your doctor will prescribe only if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Breast Feeding
cautionPlease consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this; your doctor will decide whether breastfeeding mothers can take Flavoxate Hydrochloride or not.
Driving
cautionFlavoxate Hydrochloride may cause drowsiness and vision disturbances; do not drive or operate heavy machinery if you feel drowsy.
Liver
cautionDose adjustment may be needed. Flavoxate Hydrochloride should be used with caution in patients with liver impairment/liver disease. Please consult your doctor if you have a liver impairment or any concerns regarding this.
Kidney
cautionDose adjustment may be needed. Flavoxate Hydrochloride should be used with caution in patients with kidney impairment/kidney disease. Please consult your doctor if you have kidney impairment or any concerns regarding this.
Children
unsafeFlavoxate Hydrochloride is not recommended for children below 12 years, as efficacy and safety have not been established.
Habit Forming
Diet & Lifestyle Advise
- Pelvic floor exercises would help treat bladder spasms.
- Avoid foods like sugars, carbonated beverages, tea, citrus fruits, tomatoes, spicy foods, and chocolate.
- Limit fluid intake, as excess fluid intake could cause an urge to urinate frequently.
- Avoid drinking excess alcohol or caffeine.
- Maintain a healthy weight and exercise regularly.
- Quit smoking.
Special Advise
- A urologist might suggest tests like the urodynamics test, urine culture, and bladder function test to diagnose symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB).
Patients Concern
Disease/Condition Glossary
Muscle spasms: The contraction or tightening of bladder muscles causes bladder spasms. This is termed an overactive bladder. Continuous contractions may cause an urge to urinate. An overactive bladder is characterised by involuntary leakage of urine, excessive urination, and an urgent need to urinate. The common causes of bladder spasms are urinary tract infections, drinking too much caffeine or alcohol, diabetes, constipation, impaired kidney function, bladder stones, enlarged prostate, or neurological disorders.
FAQs
Flavoxate Hydrochloride used to treat muscle spasms of the urinary tract.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride relaxes the muscles of the urinary bladder, thereby helping in preventing frequent urination, excessive or uncontrolled urination. Flavoxate Hydrochloride also helps in relieving the associated pain.
Dry mouth could be a side effect of Flavoxate Hydrochloride. Limiting caffeine intake, avoiding smoking and mouthwashes containing alcohol, drinking water regularly, and chewing sugar-free gum/candy might stimulate saliva and prevent drying of the mouth.
There is some overlap between the symptoms of both OAB and BPH. OAB occurs due to the malfunctioning of the nerves that trigger uncontrolled urinary bladder muscle contractions. The main symptom of OAB is a sudden urge to urinate that is hard to control, which is stressful. On the other hand, BPH occurs due to an enlarged prostate gland, which puts pressure on the urinary bladder, thereby blocking the flow of urine and causing pain.
Avoid taking Flavoxate Hydrochloride if you are being treated for glaucoma. Consult your doctor if you have any concerns regarding this.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride is used to treat symptoms of the bladder, such as frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, bladder pain, increased night-time urination, and urine leakage associated with prostate enlargement, overactive bladder, irritation of the urethra, or bladder infections.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride can be taken with or without food. However, taking Flavoxate Hydrochloride with food might help lower stomach upset.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride should be taken for as long as your doctor has prescribed it, depending on your medical condition.
No, Flavoxate Hydrochloride is not an antibiotic. It is an anti-spasmodic medicine which relieves and prevents muscle spasms of the bladder and urinary tract.
The side effects of Flavoxate Hydrochloride include nausea, vomiting, stomach upset, gastric pain, dry mouth, and drowsiness. Consult the doctor if any of these side effects persist or worsen.
No, Flavoxate Hydrochloride is not a narcotic or an antibiotic. It is an anticholinergic medicine which helps relieve and prevent muscle spasms.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride belongs to the group of medicines called antispasmodics that prevent and treat muscle spasms. Flavoxate Hydrochloride is used to treat urinary tract muscular spasms that may be caused by inflammation of the urethra, prostate gland or bladder.
Flavoxate Hydrochloride contains flavoxate, an anti-spasmodic agent that works by relaxing the muscles of the urinary bladder.
