Drinking male medicine to treat kidney stones, the man almost had a chronic kidney failure

3 months of diligently taking male medicine in the hope that the stones will “run out” through the urinary tract. However, the patient has not seen any since recently, the patient has abdominal pain, fatigue, loss of appetite and insomnia. This condition was getting worse and worse, so the family was forced to take them to the hospital.

At Hung Vuong General Hospital (Phu Tho), patients are examined, tested, and taken necessary films. The CT scan results showed that there were many stones concentrated in the left kidney, size 48x37mm, right kidney stone size 16mm, gallstone size 4mm.

The patient was indicated for urgent surgery. According to the patient’s family, 3 months ago, he went to the clinic of Hung Vuong – Tuyen Quang with a diagnosis of kidney stones. The patient was advised to be admitted to the hospital, but the family decided to return to treat kidney stones with herbal medicine.

The whole stone tube was removed from a 59-year-old patient’s kidney

Currently, the patient is stable, recovering from surgery and is being cared for at the Department of General Surgery at Hung Vuong General Hospital.

Sharing with reporters, Dr. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Lien, Head of the Department of Kidney Surgery, Urology and Andrology, Hanoi E Hospital, said that kidney stones are the most common pathology of the urinary tract.

Our country is located in a hot and humid tropical climate, the body loses a lot of water, so it has long been considered an endemic area for stones. About 10-14% of Vietnamese people have stones in their kidneys.

A review of practice shows that kidney stones are a common urinary stone disease in middle-aged men. The age of onset is usually between 30 and 55 years. The reason is that because men have a more complex urinary tract structure, stones are often difficult to eliminate on their own as in women.

Urinary stones are solid particles formed by the natural crystallization of inorganic crystals in urine. They can cause pain, nausea and vomiting, hematuria, and can cause fever and chills because of secondary infections.

Most of them begin to form in the kidneys, move along the path of the urinary system and are excreted, so many people are familiar with them as kidney stones.

Symptoms of kidney stones are purely caused by complications of the stone with the urinary system, not by the stone itself.

The most obvious manifestation of kidney stones is that they cause severe pain, so much so that people call it “renal storm pain” or “renal colic”.

Stone causes pain in the lumbar fossa on one side, spreading anteriorly and downward. It is the onset, which comes on very suddenly, after strenuous activity. Then the intensity of the pain became stronger. Patients often writhe in pain, struggling to find a position to relieve pain but can’t.

When experiencing this symptom, the patient needs to immediately go to the medical agency, the hospital so that the doctor can take measures to reduce the pain caused by kidney stones, absolutely do not arbitrarily do it at home.

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Sharing this view, doctors from the Department of Surgery, Hung Vuong Hospital also noted that patients with kidney stones need to be examined promptly to check the size of the stones.

If kidney stone disease is not promptly intervened, it will lead to complications such as dilatation of the renal pelvis, kidney failure, obstruction, pyelonephritis….

In addition, you should not use non-originating drugs, but should follow the treatment regimen of your doctor, to avoid unfortunate complications.

To prevent kidney stones, especially recurrent kidney stones, experts recommend that patients in particular and normal people in general need to drink a lot of water.

The daily amount of water needed is over 2 liters (equivalent to 12 cups of water), drinking plenty of water can limit 50% of recurrent kidney stones.

In addition, to prevent kidney stones, people should also limit carbonated soft drinks and sugar water. In carbonated soft drinks containing phosphoric acid, which is the cause of kidney stone formation, besides the content of fructose, fructose has been shown to increase urinary excretion of crystals: calcium, oxalate and uric acid. That increases the risk of kidney stones.

To prevent kidney stones, people should also limit eating red meat. Because red meat, animal organs and shellfish, contain large amounts of a natural chemical compound called purines, high purine intake leads to high uric acid production, which increases uric acid excretion in the urine. , forming uric acid stones.

In particular, it is necessary to limit salty foods. Accordingly, each person should only eat 2-3 grams of salt / 1 day, eating a lot of salt (nacl) leads to an increase in sodium, when increasing sodium in the blood increases calcium excretion in the urine (because sodium and calcium share the body with each other). renal transport).

Many studies have shown that an increase of 100 mmol nacl in food will increase urinary excretion of calcium by 25 mg, increasing the risk of kidney stones.

Instead of foods that need to be limited as above, Dr. Dr. Duong Van Trung, Head of Urology Department, Postal Hospital recommends that people should eat foods rich in calcium such as milk, fomate, eggs… to prevent kidney stones.

Because when we eat foods high in calcium, the risk of oxalate kidney stones increases, because calcium in food will combine with oxalate in the digestive tract and be excreted.

The recommended amount of calcium to eat daily is from 1000-1200 mg / 1 day (equivalent to about 2-3 cups of milk). “In contrast, supplemental calcium (using oral supplements in osteoporosis) is a factor that increases the risk of kidney stones,” emphasized Dr. Trung.

Dr. Trung also noted that people should avoid high-dose vitamin C supplements. Because oxalate is the end product of vitamin C metabolism.

Therefore, it is recommended to take 60mg/day of vitamin C based on diet, if you want to take vitamin C supplement, it should not be more than 500mg/day, excess amount of 1000mg/day or more can produce more oxalate in the body may form oxalate kidney stones.

N. Huyen