Most Common Urology Problems That Affect Men At Any Age

Most of the time, we listen that women suffer from urological problems like incontinence and bladder infections. Whereas men may also suffer from these problems more often than you think. If the problem is severe enough, it can affect a man’s dignity, confidence and quality of life. Below are the reasons, a man should consult to a urologist:

1. Incontinence: Urinary incontinence is a leakage of urine and it occurs when an individual can’t control their bladder or lose control of their bladder. There are several treatments for incontinence, including medications, physical therapy, or surgery.

2. Urinary Tract Infection: Urinary tract infection occurs when a man experiences painful urination or cloudy urine. Firstly, a urologist will test the urine to make sure it is a UTI and rule out other problems, and in most cases, prescribe a round of antibiotics.

3. Prostatitis: Prostatitis is an infection in the prostate. The Symptoms are fever and chills; painful urination; and pain in the abdomen, pelvic area, or lower back. A urologist will do tests to determine if this is the cause of symptoms & if similar to a UTI, then the urologist will most likely prescribe antibiotics.

4. Enlarged Prostate: Although more problematic for older men, this condition is fairly common. An enlarged prostate can push on the bladder, causing incontinence; men may experience the urge to urinate frequently or leaking urine. They may also struggle with urinating. Treatment for an enlarged prostate may include medications or surgery.

5. Infertility: Another bigger urological problem for a man is infertility, means man has trouble conceiving children. A urologist will diagnose the cause of infertility and help to create a treatment plan. Treatment for infertility depends on what is causing it.

6. Prostate Cancer: Prostate cancer is very serious problem for men, as it causes cancer death in men. Symptoms can include frequent and painful urination, blood appearing in the urine or semen, and pain the pelvic area. Treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

7.Erectile Dysfunction: A condition in which a man experiences difficulties with maintaining an erection while sex is Erectile dysfunction. This can be treated with either medication, surgery, or external vacuum devices.

The treatments of these problems are available at Kidney Urostone Centre at Chandigarh. If someone, find any kind of these problems then he should consult to the doctor and get back to their normal life.

Female Urological Problems

As we know that it can be difficult to talk about your urological problems with others, but you should have to tell someone or consult to the doctor if you find out any one (or a combination) of the following symptoms: urine leakage; frequent need to urinate; frequent bladder, urinary tract, or vaginal infections; inability to pass urine or empty your bladder completely; pressure in the vagina or pelvis; progressively weaker urine stream; pelvic or lower abdominal pain; and/or pain or bleeding with sexual intercourse. These symptoms may be indicative of more serious female urology and urogynecology problems that, if left untreated, could be cause a severe problem to your quality of life.

The Urology specialists Dr. Anshumaan V Kapoor and Dr. Rajan Sharma at Kapoor’s Kidney & Urostone Centre Pvt. Ltd. knows very well that health is most important and, for this reason, they will help you to feel comfortable at every stage of treatment – from the initial consultation to post-procedure follow-up care.

Here below are the urological problems faced by the females effectively treated at Kapoor’s Kidney & Urostone Centre Pvt. Ltd.

• Incontinence: The accidental release of urine. There are three main types of chronic female urinary incontinence: stress incontinence, which occurs when you sneeze, cough, laugh, jog, or do other things that put pressure on your bladder; urge incontinence, which happens when you have a strong need to urinate but can’t reach the toilet in time; and overflow incontinence, which is an inability to completely empty your bladder.
• Overactive Bladder: The frequent and sudden urge to urinate.
• Voiding Dysfunction: The abnormality of the filling or emptying of the bladder. The three main types of chronic voiding dysfunction in women include: urinary frequency, urinary urgency, and painful urination.
• Urinary Tract Infection: An infection that usually occurs when bacteria enters the opening of the urethra and multiplies in the urinary tract.
• Bladder Infection: An infection that usually occurs when bacteria moves to the bladder and multiplies.
• Interstitial Cystitis (IC): A chronic inflammation of the bladder wall.
• Pelvic Pain: Pain, pressure, or tenderness around the pelvic region – below your bellybutton and between your hips.
• Bladder Cancer: Any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder.
• Bladder Pain: Pain, pressure, or tenderness around the bladder, pelvis, and perineum – the area between the anus and vagina.
• Dropped Bladder: The wall between a woman’s vagina and bladder weaken and the bladder drops into the vagina.
• Vaginal Prolapse: The organs inside the pelvis fall, bulge, or protrude into the vaginal wall.
• Urethral Syndrome: Defined as symptoms suggestive of a lower tract urinary infection, without any evidence of bacterial or viral infection as a cause.

The understanding and caring staff at Kapoor’s Kidney & Urostone Centre Pvt. Ltd. is sensitive to what can be embarrassing health issues.

For more information about the Female’s Urology Solutions, call 9915286238.

Ways To Treat Prostate Cancer

The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system found below the bladder and in front of the rectum. Once your prostate cancer has been diagnosed, your doctor has a lot to think about before choosing a treatment plan according to your disease stage. It’s important that you also think carefully about each of your choices for treatment plan. You will want to gain the benefits of each treatment option against the possible risks and side effects.

Which treatments are used for prostate cancer?

Depending on each case, treatment options for men with prostate cancer might include:

• Watchful waiting or active surveillance
• Surgery
• Radiation therapy
• Cryotherapy (cryosurgery)
• Hormone therapy
• Chemotherapy
• Vaccine treatment
• Bone-directed treatment

These treatments are generally used one at a time, although in some cases they may be combined.


Which doctors treat prostate cancer?

The main types of doctors who treat prostate cancer include:

Urologists: surgeons who treat diseases of the urinary system and male reproductive system (including the prostate)
Radiation oncologists: doctors who treat cancer with radiation therapy
Medical oncologists: doctors who treat cancer with medicines such as chemotherapy or hormone therapy

There is a well known urologist expert Dr. Anshumaan V Kapoor in North India with an experience of 14 years.

Help getting through treatment

Your cancer care team will be your first source of information and support, but there are other resources for help when you need it. Hospital- or clinic-based support services are an important part of your care. These might include nursing or social work services, financial aid, nutritional advice, rehab services, or spiritual help. There is still some uncertainty about the exact right therapies for many men, and whether some even need immediate therapy.

Urological Differences Between Men and Women

Urology has become one of the growing fields of medical and research science. Catheterization and continence are the two urology aspects which are affecting million of people in all over the world every day. The urological system of women’s and men’s are very much different and the symptoms and causes are based on personal anatomy.

The functioning way of urinary catheters of men and women is mostly the same to drain the urine from the bladder, but the design of the catheter is very different in both men and women. In men, a urinary catheter is inserted through men’s personal part, but in women, the catheter application is based on bladder position which changes every time with obesity, age, childbirth etc.

Incontinence is the inability to control urinary function. These types of incontinence vary between women and men. If the urinary incontinence is not normal, then it is symptomatic of urological issue.

Gender Based Common Types of Incontinence and Reason are:

Stress Incontinence: This is the most common types of urological problem found in women. These generally occur during childbirth or pregnancy. This problem leads to weak pelvic muscles and put external pressure on the bladder. When the pressure goes to the bladder during running, sneezing, laughing and coughing, it leads to leakage of urine from the bladder.

Urge Incontinence: Overactive bladder is known as urge incontinence. There are many reasons behind this like cancer in uterus, strokes, prostate, urological nerve damage and bladder inflammation are the little one. In this problem, the patient feels to urgent need to urinate or not able to urinate.

Mixed Incontinence: Mixed incontinence means the combination of both stress and urge incontinence. Its symptoms lies under both incontinence forms.

Temporary Incontinence: The type of incontinence is occurred due to fewer medical treatment, medication, surgery and infection, but this problem has been solved within a short period.

Overflow Incontinence: This type of incontinence problem occurs when someone not able to empty the bladder. They always feel to urinate within a short period of time. This has happened due to weak bladder muscles, kidney stone problem and if a person having kidney stones. The common cause of overflow incontinence in men is due to blocking of urethral and enlarged prostate, which affects the person when they are over the age of 50.

Every incontinence problem mentioned here can be treated. But for that a person need to consult with a doctor. He/she should not hesitate while concerning with the urological doctor and start taking medical treatment according to doctor prescription. Otherwise, these problems can lead a person to death if not solved at the starting age.

Common Urology Problems found in Human Body

In the coming era, many numbers of people are suffering from urinary problems like prostate cancer, blood in urine and many types of urinary tract infection. In medical term, these types of disease are known as urological problem and the doctor who treat these diseases are known as a urologist. The organs that come under urological problem are penis, testes, kidneys, adrenal glands, urethra and ureters.

The urological problem totally changes the lifestyle of a person like decrease in stamina, facing more bladder problem, increase erectile dysfunction problem. The ignorance will definitely not help, so one should know the various common types of urological problem so that he/she can consult with a urologist doctor to get treatment on time.

The common urological problems that mostly found in human body are:

1. Urinary Incontinence: This is commonly found in women and it can happen to men also. Under this problem, he/she not able to control their urine and stress, surgery and trauma are the most  reason behind it.

2. Urinary Tract Infection: Urinary tract infection is mainly caused by bacterial infection or microbes and affects the bladder area.It symptoms includes bloody urine, rectal pain in men, burning with urination and cloudy urine.

3. Premature Ejaculation: These problems commonly found in men and in the younger generation. Mostly people hesitate to talk about it, but it can be treated. The common symptoms of premature ejaculation are distressed and frustration, changes in sexual methods, medication etc.

4. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: This urological problem commonly found in older men when the prostate gland size increases from its normal size and block the urine tract. The common symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia are urinating at night, blood in urine, feel to urinate but not able to etc.

Anyone having any kind of these urological problems, it may worth talking with urological doctor for better treatment on time so that no one suffers from these problems for the longer time.

Most Common Symptoms when you Need to visit Urologist for Kidney Stones Problem

In the human body, the kidney plays an important role in removing out the toxic substance in the form of liquid. The kidney is a part of urinary system consists of ureter, urethra, urinary bladder and kidneys. Basically, a kidney stone is formed due to solid concretions or crystal aggregations in the kidney from suspended urinary materials which are also known as renal calculi in medical terminology. Once the stone passes into the ureter, the symptoms will start showing because it will prevent urine from getting out of a kidney.

The most common symptoms of kidney stone are:

Unable to Urinate or Increase in Urine: The kidney stone problem varies from person to person. Some person feels that they need to urinate but not able to and some feel that they are not able to control the urine especially at night.

Severe Pain on Either Side of Lower Back: This is one of the most common symptoms of the stone problems and these types of pain come in waves. Passing a stone can be worsened, but it depends on the size of the stone.

1. Painful Urination,
2. Hematuria(Blood in Urine) 
3. Nausea  or High Fever 
4. Vomiting 
5. Loss of Appetite 
6. Unusual Odor and color of urine 
7. Dehydration 
8. Syria and Dysuria are also common symptoms of kidney stone problems.

Generally, the kidney stones are of four types, Calcium Phosphate Stones, Calcium Oxalate Stones, Cystine Stones, and Uric Acid Stones. These stones are formed due to diet, dehydration, hereditary condition and other medical conditions.

Once, you came to know about which stone problem you have, you can get proper treatment from the best urologist doctors near your area. The treatment depends on the size of the stone, If the size is small, the doctors can advise you for any medical course which will help to get the stone out from your body. But if the size is large, the doctors can go for surgery.

Contact the best Urologist in Chandigarh to get the best Stones Treatment at KUC.