No Stone No Pain- Urinal Stone Removal

The function of kidney is to filter the waste materials and help body in some functions. Urinary stones are formed due to the accumulation of minerals inside the urinary tract. Small stones formed comes out along with urine but large stone block inside the urinary track and causes pain at the time of urination. Deposition of calcium oxalate is the main cause of urinary stone.

Causes  of Urinary Stone

• Lack of water in the body to dilute the uric acid, which is an agent of urinary bladder.
• Consumption of diet with rich in animal protein and low  in fibrous.
• Use of drug like Topiramate.
• Long term use of Vitamin D and calcium tablets.
• Obesity, sedentary lifestyle and high blood pressure are increases the risk of stone.

What are the Symptoms of Urinary Stone ?

• Severe pain in the groin/side parts
• Intermittent tendency to urinate
• Vomiting and nausea
• Fever and shivering
• Burning sensation during urination

How to Detect Urinary Stone

• Physical examination, x-ray, CT and ultrasounds, blood test, urine tests are means to detect stones.
• Treatments for Urinary Stone
• Common medications
• Lithotripsy(shock wave therapy)
• Surgical procedures
• Ureterolithotomy

Even after taking medicines for a long time the severity of disease is not decreasing it is better to take expert opinion. Treatment should be taken even at the initial stage to avoid complications.

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Get Away From Urinary Tract Infection

A urinary tract infection is an infection from microbes.Most UTI is caused by fungi and virus. UTI is most commonly found in women. Untreated UTI can cause damage to your kidney, the infection may be spread from the bladder to one or both kidneys, When bacteria attacks the kidney then it will permanently reduce the kidney function, even lead to kidney failure. 

What Is Urinary Tract Infection or UTI? 

A Urinary tract infection or UTI is an infection that caused by bacteria, fungi or virals, The infection involves the kidney, ureters, bladder or urethra.The people who have UTIs are always recommended to drinks fluids and urinate frequently, in order to flush out the bacteria An uncomplicated UTI can be cured within 2-3 days of treatment it normally occurs in a normal healthy person.A complicated UTI is one that occurs in a person with another condition such as pregnancy, or heart transplant. A complicated UTI requires 7-14 days of a longer period of treatment.

How one can identify UTI? 

•  Burning while urinating
•  Frequent Urge to urinate
•  Pain on your back or lower abdomen 
•  Feeling tired always
•  ark or cloudy urine
•  Strange smell
•  bloody and dark(brownish) urine
•  Nausea and vomiting
  

Risk factors of UTI 

Most commonly UTI is found in women, 8 out of 10 women experience UTI once in their lifetime. Risk factors specific to women for UTIs include Female Anatomy: Womens has shorter urethra while comparing with men, Which shortens the distance that bacteria must travel to reach the bladder. 

Certain types of birth control measure also increase the chance of having UTI

The decline in circulating estrogen after menopause causes changes in the urinary tract that makes having the chance of urinary infection. 

A kidney stone can trap urine in the bladder and can have the risk of UTI.

Diabetes and other diseases suppress the immune system and the body defense against germs and can have risk of UTIs

 How can we prevent UTI?

•  Drink plenty of water. 
• Avoid drinks that may irritate your bladder
•  Wipe from front to back
•  Avoid potentially irritating feminine products like deodorant sprays
•  Change your birth control method.

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Don't Ignore Urinary stones

Urinary stones are hard masses that form inside the urinary tract, that causes the block of urine flow and results in pain, infection or bleeding. Depending on the location of the stone, it may be called a ureteral stone, kidney stone or bladder stone.

Types of Stones

Most of the urinary stones are formed from the minerals in the urine that forms crystals and grow into stones. Most of the stones are composed of calcium and sometimes stones are composed of uric acid or cystine. In some cases, stones may be caused due to infected urine, these stones which are a mixture of ammonium, magnesium, and phosphate are also known as infection stones.

Causes

The main cause of urinary stone is, the urine becomes too saturated with salts that can form stones. Urinary stones are more common among the following types of people:

• Hyperparathyroidism 
• Renal tubular acidosis
• Dehydration
• Among people whose urine lacks the normal inhibitors of stone formation
• Whose diet is very rich in Vitamin C or animal-source protein
• Who don't consume enough water or calcium
• People who have a family history of stone formation

In some people, drugs including indinavir or the substances in the diet such as melamine increase the risk of stone formation

Symptoms

Usually, tiny stones may cause no symptoms, but larger stones may cause pain in the back and area between the ribs and the hip. The other symptoms of urinary stone include:

• Renal Colic
• Nausea and vomiting
• Blood or a piece of stone in the urine
• Pain or burning during urination
• Foul smelling urine
• Urge to urinate frequently
• Fever and chills

Treatment

Small urinary stones do not need to be treated, as they pass out on their own. The larger stones are either treated by medications or by stone removal procedures like shock wave lithotripsy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy, Endoscopic surgery, Ureteroscopy etc.

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Know about Renal Stone at the Earliest

owadays the problem of Kidney stone has become common due to changing lifestyle and other food habit disorders.

WhatAre Kidney Stones?

Kidney stone also known as renal calculi, are solid masses made of crystals. Usually Kidney stones originate in kidneys, but it can develop anywhere along your urinary tract which includes ureters, bladder, and urethra.

Types of Kidney Stones

The causes of kidney stones vary according to the type of stone. Not all kidney stones are made up of the same crystals. The different types of kidney stones include:

Uric Acid: This is more common in men than in women, it develops when urine is too acidic. 

Calcium stones: This is the most common type of Kidney Stone. They can be made of calcium oxalate (most common), phosphate, or maleate.  

Struvite: This type of stone is found mostly in women with urinary tract infections. These stones can be large and cause urinary obstruction. 

Cystine: These type of stones are rare. It can occur in both men and women who have the genetic disorder cystinuria. With this type of stone, an acid called cystine occurs naturally in the body that leaks from the kidneys into the urine.

Risk Factors

The greatest risk factor for kidney stones is making less than one liter of urine per day. Other risk factors include: 

• dehydration
• obesity
• high-protein, salt, or glucose diet
• hyperparathyroid condition
• gastric bypass surgery
• inflammatory bowel diseases that increase calcium absorption
• taking medications such as diuretics, anti-seizure drugs, and calcium-based antacids 

 

Symptoms and Signs of a Kidney Stone

Symptoms of kidney stones may not occur until the stone begins to move down the ureters. The symptoms of kidney stones includes the following:

• fever
• chills
• frequent need to urinate
• urinating small amounts of urine
• blood in the urine (red, pink, or brown urine)
• vomiting
• nausea

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Treatment For Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer only affects men, where the cancer begins to grow in the prostate gland of the male reproductive system.

What is the Prostate?

Prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system. It is an exocrine gland which exists directly under the bladder, in front of the rectum. The main function of the prostate is to help in production of semen. For this, the prostate will produce a thick white fluid and mix with the sperm produced by the testicles.

Symptoms of Prostate Cancer

Usually a Prostate cancer progresses very slowly, the patient will live for decades without any symptoms. When symptoms do exist, they may be one or more of the following.

• Painful ejaculation

• Blood in urine or semen

• Need to urinate frequently

• Painful or burning urination

• A decrease in the amount of fluid ejaculated

 

Causes of Prostate Cancer

The specific cause of Prostate cancer is unknown. There are so many possible factors, which includes:

• Age: Age is the primary risk factor. Prostate cancer is more common in men after the age of 50

• Genetics: Genetics is definitely a factor in Prostate cancer. A man whose father or brother having Prostrate cancer runs twice the risk of developing it.

• Diet: Studies indicate that a diet high in red meat may increase a person's chance of developing prostate cancer. Also a review of diets indicated that the Mediterranean diet may reduce a person's chances of developing prostate cancer.

• Medication: Studies says that the daily use of anti-inflammatory medicines increase the risk of prostate cancer.

• Obesity: Studies found a clear link between obesity and prostate cancer risk.

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's): Men who have STD's have higher chance of developing prostate cancer.

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Know More About Urinary Bladder Cancer

Cancer has now become a fast spreading disease among the humans. Though there are effective cures for the disease, the delay in detecting the disease has turned to be deadly in most of the cases in the past. Urinary cancer is one of the different forms of cancer seen nowadays. 

What is urinary bladder cancer?

Urinary bladder is a bag like structure that stores urine until it is expelled from the body. The condition when the inner lining of the urinary bladder turns malignant is called urinary bladder cancer. It may be commonly found in adults though the disease can occur at any age. Urothelial cancer is the most commonly found form of urinary bladder cancer. This tumour can arise from any part from renal cycles, renal pelvis, uretr, bladder to urethra. It requires serious follow up as well. 

How is urinary bladder cancer diagnosed?

The common symptoms for urinary bladder cancer are presence of blood in urine, painful urination and pain in the pelvic region. Usually ultrasound scans or CT scans would suffice in detecting the tumours. Usually and endoscopy and the following biopsy will confirm the condition.

How is urinary bladder cancer treated?

Endoscopic resection can clear the area of the tumour cells. Chemotherapy might be needed in some cases depending on the condition. If the malignant cells have spread to the adjoining muscles and cells, the removal of urinary bladder might be imminent and might be the best possible solution. Follow up endoscopies are required to rule out the re-occurrence of the dieases.

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Early Signs of Kidney Stones that Shouldn't be Ignored

A kidney Stone is a condition where a stone is formed inside kidney and then it goes out through the urine flow if the size of the stone is small. But if the stones formed are bigger then it causes pain as it touches the walls of the urinary tract or will cause bleeding inside.

How to prevent kidney stone?

Preventing kidney stone means preventing stone formation, the food items such as spinach, chocolate, tea, nuts etc have some contents which can cause stone formation so reduce their consumption. Drink lot of water and most important factor never hold your urine for a long time.

What are the Symptoms of kidney stones?

The pain is the common factor that occurs in kidney stone which occurs in the lower abdomen and back. This pain is said to be one of severe pains, as a matter stones can cause internal bleeding. The other symptoms include restlessness, sweating, vomiting and frequent urinary urgency.

How can we Diagnose kidney stone?

The diagnosis of kidney stone is done through several methods they include CT scan, ultrasound scan, intravenous pyelography etc. Clinical diagnosis is usually made on the basis of the location and severity of the pain.

What are the Treatments for the kidney stone?

Kidney stones differ in size as we said in the case of smaller stones treatments include medicines for pain control and also medicines to provide the passage through urine. For the bigger stones, the doctors can recommend a procedure known as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). It produces vibrations inside the area where the stone is and breaks stones into smaller particles.

Can kidney stones reappear?

According to some studies about half of the people who had kidney stone reappeared within 10 years. So there is still a possibility and always stick with preventive measures. 

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