TREATMENT OPTIONS & SYMPTOMS

Human Body

Urinary System 3b


STONES Block in the drains

Stones form in the kidney, ureter, and bladder.
This occurs in most cases when the chemicals dissolved in the urine are in high concentration -and precipitate out of solution.
This is helped if you drink less water and your urine is more concentrated.
This is also helped, if a tiny centre forms, and precipitation occurs around it (protein or dead bacteria in urine infection).
More salts are deposited so the small stone gets bigger and cause obstruction to the flow of urine and results in pain.

The commonest stones are formed of calcium oxalate or phosphate.
Uric acid stones are less common.
Most stones can be detected on simple X-Ray of the abdomen

Stones need to be removed by surgery.
Now a days stones can be broken up by high energy shock waves and the small fragments are passed in the urine this method is called Lithotripsy

RENAL FAILURE
The end point of renal disease

DIALYSIS Filtering when the filter fails

The kidney can fail to function because of disease and today these patients can be offered treatment with dialysis.
Artificial filtering machines have been produced and the patient's blood from an artery is passed through this machine.

The blood comes back through a tube back into a vein.
This filtering of blood by a machine is called hem dialysis.

The patient needs 25 hours of dialysis in a week (done during the visits to the hospital) and his blood urea and other chemicals can be kept within a normal range.

RENAL TRANSPLANTATION Transplanting a borrowed filter

If the kidney failure occurs Renal Transplantation is possible if dialysis is not acceptable for a long period.

Kidney from a related living donor or a recently dead accident case can be surgically transplanted into the renal failure patient.

The transplanted kidneys have been known to function for years.

The renal failure patient does not need weekly hospital visit for dialyses. In many cases the patient has a normal life including -work - relaxations and physical activity.


Urinary System
Symptom to remember
- Burning on passing urine
- Passing urine frequently night and day
- Pain back (side of midline)
- Pain along the line of ureter
Blood in urine

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