BPH Starter Pack Launched

One of the standard treatments for benign enlargement of the prostate is to prescribe an alpha blocker drug.  This relaxes the smooth muscle in the prostate, thereby relieving the symptoms.  Unfortunately it also relaxes other involuntary smooth muscles. This frequently gives rise to side effects of which a drop in blood pressure is the most frequent.  To correct this, the dose of the alpha blocker has to be raised progressively over the first few weeks of use while the body adjusts to the presence of the drug.  Abbott Laboratories have recently introduced a new packaging of their alpha blocker with different doses of the drug for each day of the first month of use.  The patient is led by the packaging to take the right pill on each day.  In this way the low blood pressure problem is overcome.