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Why did my doctor prescribe me with flowmax for a kidney stone.
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Kidney stone: Flomax (tamsulosin) relaxes certain smooth muscles. The tube that drains the urine from your kidney, called the ureter, contains smooth muscle. If the muscles are relaxed, theoretically a stone may pass easier.
Answered 6/25/2014
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Flomax (tamsulosin): Kidney stones may reduce the flow if urine. Flomax (tamsulosin) relaxes the smooth muscles of the urinary tract thus increasing the flow of urine and the passage of stones.
Answered 6/25/2014
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