Kidney Stone
Kidney stones are a common and painful problem. As the summer season arrives, the number of its patients increases rapidly in hospitals. Many people feel that stone is made in summer itself. To know how much truth is there, we interacted with Dr. Prashant Jain, Associate Director in PSRI Hospital. According to the doctor, the risk of kidney stone does not increase in the summer season but the kidney stone is made throughout the year. The stone formation is a frequent running process, which depends on the person’s diet, lifestyle, weather and metabolic conditions. Some people have a tendency to become stone. Such people gradually keep making small stones throughout the year, which are quietly accumulated in the kidney.
Does the risk of kidney stone grow in summer?
When the summer season comes, people start drinking more water and sweat from the body also comes out. In such a situation, liquid intake increases to keep the body hydrate. This increased water starts making more urine by reaching the kidney, which eventually goes into a ureter. The ureter is the hose that connects the kidney to the bladder. It is about 25 cm long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide. When small stones, which gather in the kidney throughout the year, fall into the ureter due to water pressure in summer, they get stuck there. Especially the stone that is larger than 4-5 millimeters, they get stuck in this tube.
During this time the kidney is constantly making urin, causing the pressure of urin to grow on the stone present in the ureter and is pushed downwards. This process gives rise to problems like pain and burning. So in summer it seems that the risk of stone has increased, while in reality it is already present in the kidney and its activity increases in summer.
How to protect against kidney stone?
Now the question is how to protect it, then experts say that people who have ever made a stone or have a tendency to become a stone, must do the ultrasound of kidney once every 3 to 6 months. This will allow the status of the stone to be detected in time. Also, it is important that sufficient amount of water is drunk throughout the year. It is not right to drink 3-4 liters of water in summer and reduce it in winter. Water should not be reduced even in winter and rain, otherwise the urin becomes thick and the chances of forming a stone increases. A normal person should drink two and a half to three liters of water daily throughout the year, so that one and a half to two liters of urin comes out regularly from the body. In summer, this quantity can be increased slightly from three to three and a half liters, because in this season there is also a lack of water in the form of sweat.
Also, it is very important to take care of the diet. Limit the intake of salt and sugar, as well as avoid taking calcium supplements from outside. Calcium from natural sources is better for the body. By adopting these habits, the problem of kidney stone can be avoided to a great extent.
The main reason for increasing the problem of kidney stone in summer is the amount of water in our body and urine output changes, not the new formation of the stone. Checking at the right time, drinking balanced water and a balanced diet is the best solution for this.
Disclaimer: (Tips suggested in this article are only for common information. Start any kind of fitness program or make any kind of change in your diet or consult your doctor before making any measures related to any disease. India TV does not confirm the authenticity of any kind of claim.)
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