Bladder Health
This category covers medicines that calm an overactive bladder and ease urinary urgency, frequency and leakage. They work alongside bladder-training and fluid habits. Symptoms overlap with infection, prostate enlargement and other causes, so what looks like an overactive bladder is worth confirming before treating.
Phenazopyridine Tablets
200mg
Phenazopyridine 200mg tablets, used for urinary tract pain and dysuria. An azo dye that acts as a local analgesic on the bladder lining.
Urecholine
25mg
Bethanechol 25mg tablets, used in the management of urinary retention. A muscarinic agonist that mimics acetylcholine to contract the bladder.
Key points
- Medicine works alongside bladder training and fluid habits rather than replacing them.
- Antimuscarinics and the newer beta-3 option reduce urgency by different routes, which matters when side effects limit one of them.
- Effects build over weeks, so these are judged after a trial period rather than on the first day.
Classes and ingredients in this category
- Antimuscarinics such as tolterodine, oxybutynin and solifenacin relax the bladder muscle.
- Other options like mirabegron and flavoxate help when antimuscarinics are not suitable.
Conditions it covers
These medicines are used for overactive bladder, urinary urgency and urinary incontinence. Urgency, frequency and leakage have several possible causes, and identifying which applies decides whether medicine helps at all.