Drug Name

Proscar (Finasteride)

Drug Uses

Proscar is used for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is enlargement of the prostate gland and reducing symptoms, including a weak or interrupted urinary stream, feeling that you cannot empty your bladder completely, delay or hesitation when you start to urinate, frequent urination especially at night, feeling that you must urinate right away; reducing the risk of developing a sudden inability to pass urine; and reducing the need for surgery.

How Taken

Use Proscar as directed by your doctor.

• The proscar can be taken with or without food.
• Continue to use the Proscar even if you feel well. Do not pass any dozes.
• Using the Proscar at the same time every day will help you to remember.

Ask your supplier of public health services any questions, which you can have how to use the Proscar.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Proscar is an enzyme inhibitor. It works by lowering levels of a hormone called DHT (dihydrotestosterone), which is a major cause of prostate growth; lowering DHT leads to shrinkage of the enlarged prostate gland.

Missed Dose

If you miss a dose of Proscar , take it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once.

Storage

Store Proscar at room temperature, below 86 degrees F (30 degrees C). Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep Proscar out of the reach of children and away from pets.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Proscar if:

• You have an allergy on any component in the Proscar;
• You are pregnant or the woman of age of a birth of the child.

Contact your doctor or the supplier of public health services at once if any of them addresses to you.

Important:

• The proscar can reduce your volume . It, apparently, does not collide with normal sexual function.
• Women who are or can be potentially pregnant, should not use the Proscar. They should not address also with the broken or broken tablets. If the woman who is the pregnant woman the man's child, absorbs medicine after oral use or through a leather, it can force to be born the man's child with deviations of sexual bodies. If the woman who is the pregnant woman, comes to contact to an active component in this tablet, it is necessary to consult to the doctor.
• These tablets are covered and will prevent contact to an active component during normal processing provided that tablets are not broken or broken.
• The proscar is not used to consider baldness.
• The proscar can mention the analysis of blood by name PSA (certain for an antigene) for shielding a cancer . If to you have made test PSA you should tell to your doctor, that you take the Proscar.
• Tests of laboratory can be executed to supervise your promotion. Be convinced, that held all doctor and purpose of laboratory.
• The proscar is not recommended for use in children; safety and efficiency have not been confirmed.
• Pregnancy and feeding by a breast: the Proscar have shown to cause harm to a human germ. If you think, that you can be pregnant women, contact your doctor immediately. It is not known, if the Proscar is allocated in chest milk. Do not nurse, taking the Proscar.

Possible Side Effects

Check with your doctor if any of these most common side effects persist or become bothersome:

• Chest expansion and-or tenderness; the reduced sexual engine; the reduced volume ; inability to have installation.

Search for health services at once if any of these serious by-effects occurs:

• Serious allergic reactions (a rash; beehives; breath of difficulty; density in a breast; being inflated by a mouth, the person, lips, or language); chest blocks, a pain, or unloading of a dummy.

More Information

Proscar is to be used only by the patient for whom it is prescribed. Do not share it with other people.
If your attributes do not improve or if they become worse, check up with your doctor.