Drug Summary

  Drug name:  flavoxate
  Chemical name:  Flavoxate hydrochloride
  Formula:  C₂₄H₂₅NO₄
  Weight:   391.4596
  CAS no:  15301-69-6
  DrugBank link:  DB01148
  Description:  A drug that has been used in various urinary syndromes and as an antispasmodic. Its therapeutic usefulness and its mechanism of action are not clear. It may have local anesthetic activity and direct relaxing effects on smooth muscle as well as some activity as a muscarinic antagonist. [PubChem]
  Indication:  For symptomatic relief of dysuria, urgency, nocturia, suprapubic pain, frequency and incontinence as may occur in cystitis, prostatitis, urethritis, urethrocystitis/urethrotrigonitis.