Prostatic Diseases - Beware.. early treatment matters…

Prostatic diseases are commonly found in men with aging. These diseases affect the prostate gland, which is a walnut shaped organ surrounding the urethra. The prostate gland helps in the production of semen, the fluid that helps in the movement of sperm. They are normally the size of a walnut; however with aging, they seem to grow leading to prostatic diseases.

 

Prostatic diseases

Prostatic diseases are uncommon in younger men and are usually found in those beyond the age of 50 years. In fact, certain sources report that about 80% of men around the age of 70 years have a high probability of contracting some form of prostate disease.

Some of the common types of prostatic diseases include BPH or Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, prostate cancer and prostatitis. Among these BPH is the most commonly found prostate disorder. Specialists Hospital, at the heart of Kochi is one of the leading super specialty hospitals in Kochi, providing advanced treatment for various diseases along with urological problems.

 

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

A common prostate disease, BPH is often characterised by an enlargement of the prostate glands. It is benign or noncancerous. The manifestations of the disorder include difficulty in urination, frequent need for urination at night, poor or breakage in urine stream and so on.

The condition is usually treated with the help of medication and regular follow up to monitor the growth of the gland. In cases where the condition is not contained by medication, TURP (Trans Urethral Resection of prostate), an endoscopic surgery is carried out.

 

Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer can be cured if detected early. However they are not easily detected for lack of symptoms in the early stages. They are one of the most common forms of cancer among older men.

Prostatitis

Prostatitis is another prostatic disease affecting men today. They are not as common as BPH or prostate cancer and are found in about 8% of men worldwide.

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Best Way to Get Rid of Urinary Stones

Urine is the form of excretion of the waste products by body metabolism. Urine contains plenty of minerals and salts and the constant urination is better for maintaining good health. Increased concentration of these minerals and salts in urine bind together and form stones.

How to identify presence of stones

The urine stones usually cause certain symptoms as bloody urine, fever with chills, frequent urination, and severe one-sided abdominal pain with nausea. The symptoms vary on the size, location, and a number of stones.

Urine stone diagnosis

Based on the symptoms the diagnosis is done and they are Urine routine test, X-ray KUB (Kidney, Ureters, Bladder), and Ultrasonography Abdominal scan. After confirming the presence of urine stones, the patient may be put under further investigations like CT KUB, Intravenous Urogram.

What are the treatments provided for Urinary stones? 

 

Most of the stones are treated with medicines. Based on the location of the stones further treatments are given. The types of stones are Ureteric, Renal and bladder.

• Renal stones are treated with ESWL, RIRS, PCNL, Open pyelolithotomy
• Bladder stones are treated with Cystolithotripsy, Open cystolithotomy.
• Ureteric stones are treated with ESWL, URS AND Lithotripsy, Open ureterolithotomy.

 

Procedures to remove stones

 

Laparoscopic stone removal: Complicated and large stones would require open surgery that can be done laparoscopically. The procedure involves with making small incisions in the abdomen to perform internal surgery.

Open Procedure: It was the conservative procedure and now it is performed only for atypical kidneys.

ESWL (Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy): With an external energy source shock waves are produced and focused on the renal stone from the outside of the body by means of X-ray. It is a precise treatment for stones in the kidney and upper ureters. This outpatient treatment does not require anesthesia.

RIRS (Retrograde Intra-Renal Surgery): It is the latest innovation in stone management used to treat renal stones less than 3 cms. A flexible ureteroscope is passed into the kidney through urinary passage and lithotripsy is performed. Within two days after the surgery, the patient will be able to go back to normal activities.

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Treatment For Urinary Stone in Kochi

Urinary stone or kidney stones are formed when an excess content of minerals or salts are formed in kidney taking a crystalline form. Most of the stones pass out through the urine without causing any discomfort to the individuals being very small ones. But certain large stones can only pass out of your body creating a painful condition in the urinary tract. For the passage of most of such large stones from our body, doctors intervention is necessary.

This disorder is commonly seen in middle-aged or older adult males, but many physicians now report that more children with this condition are found in recent years.

What causes the occurrence of urinary stones?

Urinary stone are normally formed when your kidney or bladder gets saturated with minerals. These minerals are formed when the urine passage is improper. The reduced drinking of water may cause dehydration in you, leading to the deposits of mineral and thereby their crystallization. Some are affected by this urinary stone disorder if they already do suffer from urinary infections. The bacterias causing infections may also create the solidification of salts, leading to urinary stones.

If some have a family history of having urinary stones, he can also be at the risk of the same, as their bodily metabolism will be prone to the crystallization of minerals in the urine. This disorder can also occur from the food habits that one follow. Intake of food containing increased amount of calcium oxalate may increase the chances of getting urinary stones.

What are the symptoms of urinary stones?

The small sized stones which can easily move through the urinary tract will easily pass out your body without causing any discomfort. But there are some large stones which are difficult or unable to pass through the urinary tract. The occurrence of such urinary stones can severe symptoms in you like;

• Pain during urination
• Pain and discomfort in penis for males
• Pain in the lower stomach area
• Starting of urine stream takes longer time
• Cloudy appearance of urine
• Presence of blood in urine
• Frequent urge to urinate

How urinary stones can be treated?

Before treating the urinary stone problem, your doctor will subject you to some imaging techniques like; X-ray, CT scan etc. The urine test will also be conducted along with this. When once your doctor has confirmed the occurrence of urinary stones and its location in the body, he will turn to further treatment procedure. Different surgical procedures are adopted depending upon the position of the urinary stone. Surgical procedures like;

• ESWL (Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy) : ESWL uses shock waves to break the urinary stones making their easy passage through urine.
• PCNL (Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy) : PCNL includes a keyhole surgery with 1 cm incision to remove the kidney stone.
• RIRS (Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery) : RIRS is a surgical method for removing stone using an endoscope.
• Laparoscopic stone removal : Laparoscopy is used to remove large and complicated stones through small incision (keyhole) to perform internal surgery.

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Pain is not inevitable..

Urinary Tract Infections Treatment in Kochi

Urinary tract infection is a common disease, including urethritis, cystitis, nephritis. Urinary tract infection symptoms are usually obvious, and there is the chance of recurrence; if you can not get proper treatment, the consequences could be serious.

Cause of disease

Most of the infections are caused by the E. coli (a bacterium often deposited in the large intestine).

symptom

• Urinary frequency: frequent number of times, but you can only discharge a small amount of urine
• Chitong feel when urinating, burning
• Cloudy urine, even bloody
• Abdominal pain (near the pubic position), showing a bladder infection
• If fever, back pain, nausea, vomiting, kidney may become infected show

Why do women have a higher chance of suffering from urethritis?

Opportunities for women than men suffer from urinary tract infection is high, mainly due to the physical structure are different:

• Urethral length

        Male urethra is about 15 cm, while the female urethra is only five centimeters, so bacteria easily straight bladder, and then upstream to reach the kidneys.

• Sexual stimulation

Penis enters, not only to stimulate the genitals, vulva bacteria will put into the woman's urethra.

• The opening portion of the urethra

Male urethra opened at tip of the penis, the female urethra is opened at the vulva, vagina adjacent, also near the anus, and is surrounded by the size of the labia. If the vulva dirty or wiped from the anus forward after using the toilet, they are susceptible to the vulva, vagina or anus bacterial invasion and cause infection.

• Particularly vulnerable period

Pregnancy: inflatable bladder uterus pressing, so not completely emptying the bladder urine

Menopause: weakened immunity 
Treatment

• Physicians should instruct patients to complete the entire course of antibiotics, should not be half-way stop; otherwise, the bacteria may become resistant, the patient will need to take a long time to put the more powerful antibiotics to wipe out the bacteria.
• Patients should drink plenty of water, because adequate amount of urine from the urethra to help flush the bacteria out of the body.
• Such as people with diabetes or urinary tract stones, should receive appropriate treatment in order to prevent urinary tract infections.

Urinary tract infection prevention

• Maintain personal hygiene
• After going from the vulva to the anus should be wiped after visit
• Pay attention to sexual health, and to emptying after urination
• Avoid using soaps containing perfume ingredients, liquid soap, vaginal lavage
• Avoid wearing too tight or gas-tight pants (including underwear)
• Drink plenty of water
• Avoid the habit of forbearance of urine
• Alert, early detection and treatment

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Kidney Stone Treatment Kochi

Kidney stones are commonly found urinary diseases. Kidney stones are formed when urine contains excess amount of crystal-forming substances like calcium, oxalate, uric acid which is more than the fluid in your urine to dilute. And at the same time, it lacks the substance that used for preventing crystals from sticking together.

Causes of Kidney Stone:

• Dehydration-    Deficiency of water in body for carry out normal body functions. It may occur due to less water intake or excess sweat come out of body.
• Decrease in urine volume.
• Hereditary Factors
• High dose of Vitamin D intake

  Symptoms of Kidney Stone:

• Blood in urine
• Pain in ribs, side and back
• Lower Abdomen pain
• Red and pink color in urine.
• Cloudy Urine
• Tendency to urinate frequently
• If infection spreads, fever and chill may ocuur
• small or excess in the volume of urine.

Diagnosis of Kidney Stone: 

• Blood testing – to test amount of calcium deposit in urine.
• Urine testing – to examine substances that forming stones.
• Imaging – include CT scan and X-ray to find out stones in Urinary tract 
• Analysis of passed stones

Treatments of Kidney stone:

In normal Conditions, drinking 2 to 3 litres of water may cure your urinary problem. And in taking some prescribed medicines also effective for stones. But in major conditions, it needs further treatments based on  the locations the stones found.

Prevention of Kidney tone:

• Drink 2-3 litres of water and maintain urine output to 2 litres daily.
• Manage sugar and salt intake
• Practice Eating Vegetarian Foods
• Drinking Milk which is not more than two cups.
• Eat Bananas,Citrus fruits(lime, orange), Tender coconut water, pine apple, Carrots and bitter guard.

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Kidney Stone Prevention and Treatment

Kidney Stones are common, more than 5 % of adults are suffering from kidney stone problems. It is a condition which is very painful and it needs immediate medical attention. The need for medical attention is to get relief from pain and to avoid the further consequences of presence of obstruction and the kidney stone itself.

Some Common Symptoms of Kidney Stone

• pain that becomes very serious you can’t stand, sit or lie down comfortably
• presence of blood in urine
• having a hard time urinating

If you are facing any of these problem, that may be due to kidney stone. Then you should consult a expert urologist to get good treatment

Here are some tips to prevent the formation of kidney stone

• Drink 2-3 litres of water every day, This helps to maintain 2-2.5 litres of urine output a day
• Regular exercise
• Reduce sugar and salt intake
• Reduce intake of non vegetarian diet.
• Avoid intake of milk to not more than 2 cups in a day.
• Restrict soda and other aerated drinks.
• Intake of foods which helps to avoid stone formation. Bananas, Citrus fruits(lime, orange), Tender coconut water, pine apple, Carrots and bitter guard.

If you want to know more about kidney stone treatment you can consult with our urologist at Specialists Hospital Kochi

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