Patient's question:
Yesterday when I was using the restroom, I noticed that my urine had a little bit of red blood streaks, and I was terrified. I immediately went to the hospital. The doctor asked if I hadn't been having smooth bowel movements recently. I said yes, and he suspected I had candidal prostatitis. He asked me to undergo a thorough examination. How is candidal prostatitis treated?Doctor's answer:
Full-body treatment ① Clotrimazole: 1.5–3.0/day, taken orally in 3 doses. Side effects include loss of appetite, stomach discomfort, nausea, rash, urinary burning, and leukopenia. ② 5-Fluorocytosine: 100 mg/kg/day, taken orally in 4 doses. If serum transaminase levels rise during treatment, the drug must be discontinued. ③ Iodine: A 50% potassium iodide solution is taken orally 3 times daily. Initially, 5 drops are administered per dose, with an increase of 1 drop per dose thereafter, until each dose reaches 30–50 drops so far. ④ Vaccine anesthesia: A specially prepared vaccine containing 2 billion spores of Candida albicans is subcutaneously injected in a dose of 0.5–1 mL. ⑤ Chinese herbal medicine can use heat-clearing and detoxifying formulas such as Scutellariae Radix, Phellodendri Cortex, Coptidis Rhizoma, and Radix Rumex.