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08/28/2012
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Know the symptoms and the best tips to prevent disease
A student of international relations Leticia Pelegrini Altero, 18, never forget the day he discovered he had kidney stones. She began to realize that his urine was "with color of Coca-Cola" and feel very strong pain.
- It's a horrible pain. He had a position in which I was to decrease it.
Both the suffering brought to hospital where he was diagnosed with kidney stones, as it is known in the medical disease.
Since then, Leticia seek to have healthy eating and mercilessly exaggerates the amount of water you drink each day. Says consume "about four liters".
She is on track. Kidney stones are formed by excessive precipitation of crystals, what happens when you drink some liquid. The size of the stones may vary from millimeters to over 2 inches in diameter.
Doctor of nephrology Unifesp (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) and president of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology, Daniel Rinaldi dos Santos explains that changes in metabolism and genetic factors may facilitate the emergence of the disease.
- The main symptom is renal colic, characterized by severe pain of acute character, which starts in the region of the back and radiates to the anterior abdomen and may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
The expert reveals that the pain is caused by the movement of stones in the urinary tract. Often, the stone can go out alone, with the urine, but in other cases it is necessary to remove it. Before you feel the pain, you can only discover the calculations with radiologic examination or ultrasound.
Dr. Rinaldi explains what is the best way to avoid illness is drinking plenty of water, as does Leticia. But without exaggeration. The calculation is quite simple: for every pound, the person needs to drink 30 ml of water. That is, someone with 70 pounds must make 2.1 liters of water per day. Food also can not be neglected, as noted by the doctor.
- Regarding eating habits should be avoided excess red meat, processed juices, excess salt in food and eat fruits, especially orange, lemon and lime, containing citrate, a substance that prevents the formation and growth of the calculations.
There have been advances in treatment. Depending on the size of the calculations, instead of the classical surgery only used in extreme cases, one can make a simpler procedure: the use of lithotripsy, to break the calculation unit shock wave as well as the withdrawal by means of a channel.
Pain engineer woke at dawn
The software engineer Tarik Feres, 24, a resident of São Paulo, also had kidney stone. In the morning, the pain woke him.
- I got up, I could not walk properly and had goosebumps. Sure, the pain was strongest I've ever felt.
She only fell when he took medication into a vein in the hospital. As Leticia, the genetic factor contributed. Both his father as hers also had kidney stone. Tarik was closer.
- I'm afraid of having again. Basically, everything I try to do is take enough water.
Source: R7 News
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