Monday, June 22, 2009

SIMPLE AND LOW COST TREATMENT OF KIDNEY STONES



SIMPLE AND LOW COST TREATMENT OPTION OF KIDNEY STONES, THE WRITER’S EXPERIENCES.


Kidney stone is the stone which formation of concretions in the calices or pelvis of the kidney from the crystalline urinary constituents. The concretions are solid mass of urinary sediment formed in some part of the kidney or urinary tract.
The writer’s experiences treatment of patients for kidney stones since 1968, while the writer was a physician in the Hospital and Municipality Health Services Sibolga City, Tapanuli North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Why the title is simple and low cost?
The experience basic keyword treatment of kidney stones is the base or alkaline substance and base or acid forming foods diet which can dissolve the stones.
What is the basic keyword substance?
The basic substance is such as sodium bicarbonate tablet; it can be substituted with baking soda or baking powder. The base or acid forming foods diet is the daily food intake.
Is it simple? Yes! How is about the cost? Is it a low cost? Yes!!!

The dose of baking soda is one teaspoon dissolve in one glass water 3 times daily,which one teaspoon contain 4800 mg or 4.8 g baking soda.For one day the patient need about 15 g or for one month 450 g or one lb with price about $20,for 3 months is $60
The kidney stone size less than 15 mm diameter,width and length need for one month treatment; kidney stone size 15mm to 25 mm [1 inch] need treatment 1-3 months.
THE SITUATION
The kidney stone vary in shape and size according to the location, the smaller stone, termed sand and gravel, in general arising from the kidney or pelvic portion of the kidney, where as the large stone are ordinary formed in the bladder. The condition in which stones are formed in the human body is termed, lithiasis. So the kidney stone is called also nephrolithiasis. Very large stones may also form in the kidney. One of these, the so called stag-horn stone, may fill the entire central portion of the kidney.
In the early twentieth century the urinary stone frequently found in children may be due to nutrition and vitamins deficiency and now primary disease of old age, more than half of persons admitted for operation being between the age of 50 and 70. Kidney stone is about three times as common in males as in females. The kidney stones are affecting about one percent of the population, and recurrent is about a half of the suffering.

WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS ?
What are the causes of kidney stones [KSs]?
What are the symptoms and signs of KSs?
How to examine and diagnose the KSs?
How are the prognosis of KSs?
How to treat and prevent the KSs?
What about the cost of treatment KSs?
The answers to these questions or problem solving in the next subtopic:

THE ETIOLOGY OR THE CAUSES OF KIDNEY STONES

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