As
incidences of kidney related diseases continued to rise in the country, expert
has linked the formation of the disease to untreated infectious, diabetes and
hypertension, adding that early diagnosis and proper treatments of such
conditions would prevent the disorder.
The expert further explained that
drinking three or more litres of water every day will help prevent kidney
stone.
The expert who spoke in Abuja during
a five –day Boot camp organised by Apollo Hospitals, India in collaboration
with the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, maintained that to prevent
kidney failure, there is need for individuals to check the use of pain killers
in an unregulated fashion.
In his lecture titled; “Current
Practices in Prostate Diseases”, a Consultant Urologist, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospitals, New Delhi, India, Dr. Narasimhan Subramanian, who 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.
“When you address all these, you
will certainly reduce the incidences of kidney related medical
problems”. “In the case of kidney diseases, you are talking about four
common conditions; kidney stones, infections in the kidneys, kidney failures
and cancers of the kidneys.”
He explained that to reduce chances
of stone formation, individuals need to drink a lot of water, at least, three
or more litres of water every day. “Similarly, once you have formed the stone,
there are different types of stones which may require different dietary
restrictions and some of them may even require certain medications to reduce
the formation of stones.
“The basic mechanisms by which
stones are formed, there are salts that are present in the body and when the
concentration of the salts becomes more in the kidney that is when stones are
formed. So if you dilute these by forming more urine it gets washed off the
system and reducing this stone formation,” he added.
On infections in the kidney,
Subramanian said many of the urine infections do not necessarily affect the
kidneys but if these infections are untreated or are associated with medical
conditions which are not recognised, then they can affect the kidney.
“Coming to the issue of kidney failure, what you would need is early diagnosis
and recognition of infections in the kidney.”
Subramanian further explained that
the boot camp which attracts Continuous Medical Education, CME, marks was to
highlight segments of development in urology which would make patient care
easier either in terms of diagnosing the condition early or introducing
treatments which are less invasive with a view to reducing the pain and the
duration of hospitalisation among others.
He stated that the new advances in
terms of the blood tests and scans in the treatment of the condition have made
diagnosis easier to understand and treat.
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