A client is prescribed flavoxate. When reviewing the client's history, the nurse would expect to find which of the following complaints? Select all that apply
A) Dysuria
B) Nocturia
C) Leakage
D) Suprapubic pain
E) Inability to void
Ans: A, B, D
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Flavoxate, an antispasmodic, is used to relieve symptoms of dysuria, urinary urgency, nocturia, suprapubic pain, and frequency and urge incontinence. Other antispasmodics are used to treat bladder instability, such as leakage caused by a neurogenic bladder. The drug is not used to treat an inability to void.
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