Question

The patient with cystitis is given a prescription for phenazopyridine hydrochloride (Pyridium). The nurse should teach the patient that this drug is used to treat urinary tract infections by:

a - Preventing the crystallization that can occur with sulfa drugs

b - Releasing formaldehyde and providing bacteriostatic action

c - Providing analgesic effect on the bladder mucosa

d - Potentiating the action of the antibiotic

Answer 1

In cystitis there is inflammation of urinary bladder that present as pain, increased frequency and urgency and various other symptoms...

Pyridiumum when taken.. it is excreted in the urine..

So when it is in the urinary tract it produces analgesic effect on the mucosa of the urinary tract.

This helps to reduce pain, urgency, frequency...

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