Best Medicines for Prostate Enlargement (BPH) in India
Common in men >50. Medicines improve urinary flow.
Last updated: October 2026
Tamsulosin
Use: Relaxes prostate muscles. Improves flow.
Side effects: Dizziness, especially when standing up, and retrograde ejaculation (little or no semen). Tell your eye surgeon you take it before any cataract or glaucoma surgery.
Side effects: Dizziness, especially when standing up, and retrograde ejaculation (little or no semen). Tell your eye surgeon you take it before any cataract or glaucoma surgery. Relaxes prostate muscles. Improves flow.
Finasteride
Use: Shrinks the prostate slowly. Benefit is usually seen only after at least 6 months. Used for men with a larger prostate or a higher risk of symptoms getting worse.
Side effects: Sexual side effects such as lower sex drive, erection problems and less semen. It lowers PSA blood test results by about half, so tell your doctor before a PSA test. Women who are or may become pregnant must not handle crushed or broken tablets, as it can harm a male baby. Rarely causes low mood or breast lumps, so see your doctor if these happen.
Side effects: Sexual side effects such as lower sex drive, erection problems and less semen. It lowers PSA blood test results by about half, so tell your doctor before a PSA test. Women who are or may become pregnant must not handle crushed or broken tablets, as it can harm a male baby. Rarely causes low mood or breast lumps, so see your doctor if these happen. Shrinks the prostate slowly. Benefit is usually seen only after at least 6 months. Used for men with a larger prostate or a higher risk of symptoms getting worse.
Dutasteride
Use: Works like finasteride to shrink the prostate slowly. Guidelines find the two medicines equally effective for urinary symptoms. Benefit is seen after at least 6 months.
Side effects: Sexual side effects such as lower sex drive, erection problems and ejaculation problems, and breast changes. It lowers PSA blood test results by about half, so tell your doctor before a PSA test. Women who are or may become pregnant should not handle the capsules, as it can harm a male baby. Do not donate blood until 6 months after your last dose.
Side effects: Sexual side effects such as lower sex drive, erection problems and ejaculation problems, and breast changes. It lowers PSA blood test results by about half, so tell your doctor before a PSA test. Women who are or may become pregnant should not handle the capsules, as it can harm a male baby. Do not donate blood until 6 months after your last dose. Works like finasteride to shrink the prostate slowly. Guidelines find the two medicines equally effective for urinary symptoms. Benefit is seen after at least 6 months.
When to See a Doctor
Get urgent medical help if you cannot pass urine at all, see blood in your urine, or have pain when passing urine. See your doctor if you have difficulty passing urine, need to pass urine more often, or keep getting urine infections.
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