Phytotherapeutic
agents (herbs) represent nearly half of all the
medications dispensed for prostate problems in Italy; in
Germany and Austria phytotherapy is the first choice for
prostate support.
...Do they know something we
don't?
Do You Have Prostate
Problems?
Find out now...with the
following assessment survey:
This survey was
developed by the American Urological Association (AUA)
and is currently the standard test to determine urinary
problems.
Prostate Symptom Survey
For
questions 1-6, score 0 for not at all; 1 for less than 1
time in 5; 2 for less than half the time; 3 for about
half the time; 4 for more than half the time; and 5 for
almost always.
Score Yourself:
___1.
Over the past month or so, how often have you had a
sensation of
not emptying your bladder completely
after you finished urinating?
___2. Over the past
month or so, how often have you had to urinate
again
less than two hours after you finished urinating?
___3. Over the past month or so, how often have you
found you stopped
and started again several times
when you urinated?
___4. Over the past month or so,
how often have you found it difficult
to postpone
urination?
___5. Over the past month or so, how
often have you had a weak
urinary stream?
___6.
Over the past month or so, how often have you had to
push or
strain to begin urination?
___7. Over
the last month, how many times did you most typically
get
up to urinate from the time you went to bed at
night until the time
you got up in the morning? (0,
1, 2, 3, 4 or 5)
Scoring
The sum of
the answer scores gives us the severity of the BPH as
follows:
0-7 = mild prostatism
8-18 =
moderate prostatism
19-35 = severe
prostatism
