Kidney Stones is A small, hard deposit that forms in the kidneys and is often painful when passed.
A Consultant Urologist with the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India, Dr. Narasimhan Subramanian, has said that drinking three or four litres of water every day can prevent the formation of kidney stones.
A kidney stone is a hard, crystalline mineral material formed within the kidney or urinary tract. Kidney stones are a common cause of blood in the urine (hematuria) and often severe pain in the abdomen, flank, or groin. Kidney stones are sometimes called renal calculi.
The condition of having kidney stones is termed nephrolithiasis. Having stones at any location in the urinary tract is referred to as urolithiasis, and the term ureterolithiasis is used to refer to stones located in the ureters.
Subramanian also linked the disease to untreated infectious diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, adding that early diagnosis and proper treatments of such conditions would prevent the disorder
The urologist identified abuse of painkillers as a factor to increasing the incidence of kidney failure among adults and maintained that unhealthy habits such as smoking and indiscriminate consumption of alcohol may lead to kidney failure.
In his lecture titled; “Current Practices in Prostate Diseases”, Subramanian described urology as the branch of medicine which primarily deals with all urine, kidney and reproductive organs-related problems said there is need for early diagnosis and recognition of infections in the kidney as well as hypertension, diabetes and their associated conditions
Click This link to read more
0 comments:
Post a Comment