Kidney Stones Medicine Overview: Allopurinol
2007-09-16 17:40:13
From four different types of kidney stones, uric acid kidney stones are the most common one after calcium kidney stones. It is causes by high level of uric acid, which is triggered by many factors, such as daily lifestyle, eating habit, etc. There for many doctor suggest to use Allopurinol as it main function is to makes your body more difficult from producing uric acid. It is also reduces the amount of uric acid in the urine, there for it would decrease your risk to forming uric acid kidney stones. One of common used Allopurinol drugs is Lopurin or Zyloprim.
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Kidney Stones Medicine Overview: Cellulose Sodium Phosphate
2007-09-15 07:07:15
Actually for people who have balance-eating habit, this treatment is not needed. But in this past decades our eating habit has changes dramatically. People tend to consume more junk food, snack and other instant meal, which is proven contain to much fat, salt, spicy, etc, rather that healthy food. This type of food make our body metabolism work harder and sometimes cannot absorb it altogether. This remain waste would trigger many problem and diseases such as kidney stones in the future.
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Women Domination Changes In Urology Diseases
2007-09-08 20:31:37
This 1.5 minutes medical session is a “must-seen” video, an interview with Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan, JR., M.D., Senior Associate Dean Clinical Affair at Cornell NYC Presbyterian Medical School. Dr Vaughn and his team revealed that women are likely to become more common with urinary disease, such as UTI’s, kidney stones, etc than man this last 2-3 decades. Its also mean that urology is as much a medical specialty for Women
as it is for Men. Why?
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Tags: urology disease, UTIs, smoking habit, kidney stones
More American Children Develop Kidney Stones
2007-09-07 17:15:04
Kidney
stones are more common in children, according to a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins Children
’s Centre in Baltimore.
“More and more children with kidney stones came to us”, said kidney specialist Dr. Alicia Neu, co-director of the kidney stones clinic at the Children’s Centre,
Some of them came with various problems, Such as intense pain at their waist, frequent urination with pain, cloudy urine, blood in the urine, urinary tract infection with fever, etc. All this symptoms is closely related in developing stage of kidney stones.
“Although this is a bit of a surprise, it is not entirely surprising, there are so many other conditions for children which is caused by poor diet, such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, obesity and name a few,” she said.
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Test To Determine Which Type Of Kidney Stones Formed Factors
2007-08-24 11:02:26
Finding what type of your kidney stones formed factor would helps in determine what kind of treatment and solution would be best for the cases. In many cases, it is also to measure and prevent if the kidney stones would formed again in the future. This is the list of the tests that physician might suggest in order to determine the root of the problem regarding kidney stones first developing stage factors:
A medical history and a physical examination concentrated to figure out about your risk for more kidney stones. This includes questions over your diet and life-style habits.
Analyzing the kidney stones. The physician might ask you to collect the stones by loading your urine through fine-mesh filter or fine gauze. Then they will determine, which kind of the kidney stones is this.
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Renal URS Video Cystoscopy
2007-08-23 18:01:10
A good visual resources for knowing about urinary stones, it is a quite detail and informative video that describing what urinary stone look like. As we know, urinary stones are divide into two different types, bladder stones and ureteric stones, and in this video it will describe each types one by one with visual video to help us knowing the subject better.
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Some Examinations And Tests You Should Take In order To Diagnosis The Present Of Kidney Stones
2007-08-22 17:25:19
Your first diagnosis of the kidney stones arises frequently; if you see your doctor or go to an emergency room because you are feel the large pain. Your doctor or an urgency medicine specialist can place some questions on your medical history and physical examination before they examine treatment to suggest. After you lead a stone, your doctor can give you to find the one other examination out whether you are probable, to have more kidney stones in the future.
Your doctor can accomplish any of the following tests in order to diagnose the kidney stones, in order to help to determine kidney stones determining sees, where they are located, and whether they can cause or cause damage of the urine-separating surface.
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Short Description of Urinary Stones by OP Bhandari
2007-08-04 16:15:21
This short clip contain a short description of urinary stones, one of common urinary disease in poor sanitary population in India. this video also include an explanation via sound by one of India’s practitioners, Dr. O.P. Bhandari
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Why Kids Could Also Be Threatened by Urinary Tract Infections
2007-08-01 23:00:59
Not many people knows that children are also vulnerable with kind of urinary disease. Unlikely adult people that commonly get troubled by kidney stones, urinary disease that most likely disturb children is Urinary tract infections or UTIs. Its counted worldwide that pediatricians accept over than 1 million patient every year. UTIs could be just a beginning stage, since its also could be a sign or symptom for more serious problem. In this case, Vesicoureteral Reflux or VUR could be the one
VUR can be describe as a pediatric condition which causes flaw backward of urine, from bladder move backward to the kidneys. In normal condition, VUR problem could resolve by the time, but its not guaranteed that, if this condition left untreated, it would not bring more serious condition. In this case, when infected urine moving backward into kidney, it can disturb the kidney with infection. For time to time, this lefted condition will rise to scarring and lead kidney function to poor condition.
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Solving Urinary Tract Infections in Children
2007-08-01 15:31:03
This movie clip is an exhibition of Endoscopic Injection with DEFLUX(r), in solving Vesicoureteral Reflux (VUR) related to Urinary Tract Infection. Unlike the the adult people, which is commonly get kidney stones problem as their majority urinary disease, in children urinary tract infection (UTI’s) is one of the most common problem.
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What You Should Know about Open Surgery for Kidney Stones
2007-09-28 02:00:25
When dealing with kidney stones, the doctors might suggest you with several method to removing kidney stones, such as Ureteroscopy, Lithotripsy, Ultrasonic lithotripsy, Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), etc, although it still depend on the patient condition and their medical background. But there is another method that becomes un-popular during these days, since the technology is growing faster and lot of invention and new technique are develop. It is Open Surgery
.
Why open surgery became infamous during these days? One of the reasons is because in the last decades the technology of kidney stone surgery had allowing the patient to remove the stone without dealing with the needle and incision anymore. Means that the patient would free from the fear-ness about how scary the surgery is, infact this latest technique allowing the patient to recover faster than older method.
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Removing Kidney Stones using Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy (ESWL)
2007-09-27 02:00:44
ESWL procedure or Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy is one of method that used sound waves to remove kidney stones. It will break the kidney stones into small fragment, which can easily pass from the body through urine. This stone fragment usually takes a few weeks to flow out from the body, depend on the size of kidney stones. In condition when the stone is too large, the patient may need to take ESWL procedure more than once; each ESWL treatment will break the stone into much smaller pieces, which is make easier the fragment to get out. But for medium or small size kidney stones, the patient may only need to take one treatment at the time.
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Short Video about Ureteroscopy Kidney Stones
2007-09-26 02:00:12
This clip is contain clear view and very detail information about how the Ureteroscopy Procedure look liked. It is showing perfectly step by step of the process. Ureteroscopy is an endoscopic procedure that carried out to view the inside of the ureter. It used an instrument called Ureteroscope. This procedure is one of the common method in order to remove kidney stones and much practicing in develop countries.
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Kidney Stones Test using Retrograde Pyelogram
2007-09-25 02:00:28
One of the test or examination to determine the present of kidney stones is Retrograde
Pyelogram. In this test, doctor will use a dye to find out is there any blocking material on patient urinary tract which is could bring much problem to the patient, such as kidney stones or any urinary infection.
The first procedure of his test is the doctor will insert a small-thin, lighted tube also known as cystoscope into the urethra, which functions is to carry the urine out through the body from the bladder. The next procedure is the doctor will put a catheter through the cystoscope and then into the ureter.
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Increasing Kidney Stone Risk by Consuming Migraine Drugs
2007-09-24 02:00:16
This is an alert to regular migraine sufferer who’s already familiar with Topiramate or Topamax and usually used it as their prescription when dealing with migraine; recent research has revealed that using Topiramate constantly can boost your chance and increase the risk of forming kidney stones.
More than 29 million Americans were suffered by migraine these days, according to study by Dr. Dion Graybeal, assistant professor of neurology. Base on release from the National Headache Foundation, Topiramate is one of the most commonly prescribed and effective medications for migraines.
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Kidney Stones and Health Connection - Shared Experienced From Amy Parker
2007-09-23 05:17:33
Shared experiences form Amy Parker
, one of former kidney stones sufferer who has been tortured with the agonizing pain of kidney stones that some people might compare it to the pain brought by child birth. Amy has been suffered by kidney stones since teenager and already faces fifteen kidney stones case.
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Kidney Stones Medicine Overview: Potassium Citrate
2007-10-02 15:41:18
The main function of potassium citrate is to attach calcium and lowering the amount of calcium level in the urine. That’s way potassium citrate are efficient to prevent mineral crystallization which further more can develop into kidney stones. Potassium citrate also effective decreases the acid level of the urine. One of potassium citrate knowingly drug is urocit-K
Generally, beside for uric acid kidney stones, potassium citrate also effective to prevent other types of stones, including cystine stone. Although for cystine stone, potassium citrates are less effective comparing to other type of stone.
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Kidney Stones Medicine Overview: Orthophosphate
2007-10-01 15:38:05
Orthophosphate is mainly used to reduce the level of calcium in the urine. As we know, one of the causes of calcium kidney stones formation is high level of calcium in the urine. One of the Orthophosphate base drug that commonly used and prescribe by the doctor is Neutra-Phos.
There are lots of factors that may cause kidney stones formation. Actually, each different patient may come with different causes. In addition, Orthophosphate is also useful for condition such as low levels of phosphate in the urine or renal phosphate leak and for condition where the specific cause of kidney stone formation cannot be found.
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Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy: An Overview
2007-09-30 02:00:50
One of efficient method to removed kidney stones is through percutaneous nephrolithotripsy, but some of us might know this method as percutaneous nephrolithotomy. For common people, those names look very similar, there for lots of them become mislead and thought those names have same interpretation. So what is the different between percutaneous nephrolithotripsy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy?
Before we explore the differences between them, let me explain to you first what is percutaneous nephrolithotripsy is. In medical world, percutaneous nephrolithotripsy usually known as kidney stones removing treatment that will reach the kidney stone through small incision that made by a surgeon at your back in order to remove the stones. The surgeon then will put a hollow tube into patient kidney and a probe through the tube.
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Kidney Stones Medicine Overview: Sodium bicarbonate
2007-09-29 02:00:22
I bet, everybody knows about Sodium
bicarbonate or in friendly word, baking soda. Especially for housewife, because baking soda is widely knows as one of famous cooking ingredients. But not many people know that baking soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) is also useful to prevent uric acid kidney stones from being developed.
Sodium bicarbonate works to make the urine less acidic, that’s why the rate of uric acid kidney stones formation will also less likely. As we know, one of the main reason why uric acid kidney stone being develop is because high level of uric acid in our urine, due to eating habit and unhealthy lifestyle.
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Herbs as Phytotherapy for Recurrent Kidney Stones
2007-10-14 22:24:49
Many discussion being held by many scientists and medical practitioners about potential possibility of herbs in order to prevent large kidney stones and take action for pre-develop kidney stones. Although these issues didn’t come with one conclusion, most of debaters are agreed that herbs can incredibly working well to prevent the recurrence of renal calculi. So what kind of herbs that actually effective? We have taken several options that might have relevant perspectives, both traditionally and scientifically.
According to many ancient medicines and pass-generation prescribes, herbal treatment is already proved and being used long ago to prevent kidney stones and also effective to dealing with existing stones. The basic idea of all this herb treatment is actually similar. They divided the treatment in two different treatment scenarios. When dealing with existing kidney stone, treatment is aimed at passing small stones and when dealing with existing kidney stones it is set to
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Animation Clip of Urinary System
2007-10-06 17:31:38
This clip will let us learn the basic of the urinary system. So, what is urinary system actually mean? The urinary system could describe as all aspect related to urine formation and elimination. There is more than 2,500 pints of blood passes through the kidneys each day in adult system. Each hour, seven pints of filtrate are produced every hour.
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Kidney Stones Medicine Overeview: Thiazides
2007-10-05 14:46:36
To much calcium in the urine could lead to calcium crystallization and later kidney stones formation. There for in order to decrease the amount of calcium in the urine, some doctor may prescribe their patient with thiazides which have ability to reduce the amount of calcium in the urine. Some thiazides base medicine that currently available at the market are HydroDIURAL, Esidrix, Oretic, Hygroton and much more.
The main reasons why many doctor suggest using thiazides is because this medicine could prevent the formation of calcium kidney stones, especially if the patient have dramatically changing their diet. Or if there is condition when doing basic treatment such as drinking more fluids did not helped anymore.
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Kidney Stones Medicine Overview: Penicillamine
2007-10-03 18:36:34
Besides calcium stone and uric acid stone that much common in kidney stones diseases, cystine stone is likely become more counted as one of “popular” kidney stones and increasingly reported by patient. Many of them actually adopt cystine kidney stones because they have high level of cystine in their urine and it is turned to cystine stone crystallisation.
To take care this problem, the doctor might suggest the patient to take penicillamine treatment. Actually, penicillamine major function is to prevent cystine stone from develops by dissolving the cystine in urine. This action will decrease and lowering the amount of cystine in urine and will make cystine kidney stones less likely to forming. Some penicillamine based drug that commonly available in the market is Cuprimine or Depen.
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Fuit Diet as Phytotherapy for Recurrent Kidney Stones
2007-11-04 20:28:30
About 80% of kidney stones are develop from calcium salts and dominantly appearance as calcium oxalate and less dominate as calcium phosphate. Rest 20% of kidney stones are majority form by uric acid, cystine and struvite. Because urine is supersaturated with calcium, crystal formation occurs readily if urine calcium rises, as when there is fluid depletion or increased calcium excretion.
Calcium is also less soluble as the urine becomes more alkaline. Factors in urine, which inhibit crystallisation, include Magnesium, which complexes oxalate, Citrate, which complexes calcium and Pyrophosphate, which impairs crystallisation of calcium oxalate.
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Don't Under Estimate the First Signal of Kidney Stones
2007-11-04 04:58:48
I am a 37 years old woman who never suspected having one of those tiny stones in my kidney, which my doctor said as kidney stones. I had heard of them once and never thought about them more further cause I never worried that I would deal with them after all. When I first time getting troubled by those kidney stones was when I started having problem in urinating, at that time, I feel like that it might be a UTI's problem. I went to the doctor back and forth only to be told that I don't have any problem on UTI's.
After that, I finally went to an urologist who suggests me to do some tests and diagnose that it would be an over active bladder. Well two days later I get caught by harsh pain in my stomach and lower back and make me to give up work earlier. Over the night the pain get even worse. Luckily my husband who's being nurse knowing my high pain tolerance and gave me a shot of pain medication, which cooling down the pain for a while.
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Unexplained Pain During Pregnancy
2007-11-02 23:01:26
At my first pregnancy, I started having kidney stones and it hurt so badly on one side of my abdomen and often make me would scream and cry. At that time, Tylenol was the only allowed drug for me and even worse that drug didn't help to ease my pain at all. My doctor suggested me to go to the hospital and interestingly, they found nothing wrong with two days and me later when I already get back at home I passed two pea-sized kidney stones. What a relief.
Soon, I contact my doctor immediately and tell him what happened. He had initially thought I just had a low pain tolerance and in a very nice word told me to toughen up. But after I told him that I just passed two stones recently, he finally realise that he got a wrong diagnosis on me! And I had face a lot of pain during my last two pregnancies by developing kidney stones at such a rapid rate.
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Draft created on August 24, 2007 at 10:45 am
2007-11-20 12:22:16
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Wrong Diagnosis
2007-11-20 08:43:50
At my age at 55, I always felt that I have a good health, fit and never have a problem with emergency room (ER), but it was about to changes when extreme pain struck me at my back. The pain comes exactly at the middle of the night. It was 2:30 am at that time. I felt no chills, vomiting or blood while urinating and there is no sign of UTI.
I went to the clinic and get urine checked. The result is my urine is okay, it is found clear with no sign of something went wrong. The doctor diagnose that I had Diverticulitis and was confidence about her diagnosis. But I need another third opinion for my case and then refused to take CT scan and Colonoscopy.
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Tags: ER, women, UTI, kidney stones
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Bloody Peeing After Taking ESWL Procedure
2007-11-16 04:10:07
This is very interesting video from one of the kidney stones patient who just took extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) in order to remove the kidney stones. When I first saw it, I got little shock, with all that blood; make me questioning, is it really painful as it look? Although it look very bloody, but this video also gives me a clear view about what happen after taking an ESWL procedure.
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