Overactive Bladder, also called OAB in short is a condition when a person has to urinate frequently and when he/she is unable to hold the urge until he/she reaches the toilet. The person may have wake up multiple times during sleep to urinate which can affect him/her physically and mentally. If the frequent urination problem…
Going to toilet to pee more than 10 times within a span of couple of hours? Do you feel burning or stinging sensation when you pee? These are the common indicators/symptoms that your bladder might be infected. Bladder Infection (a part of Urinary Tract Infections) is typically caused due to bacteria. You may feel pain…
In our previous article, we went through what is Colon cancer (colorectal cancer), the symptoms that occur and how your urologist or urogynecologist diagnoses colon cancer. If you haven’t read through the article, please visit the following link before you learn about the treatment options for colorectal cancer. Colon (Colorectal) Cancer – Symptoms & Diagnosis…
Let us briefly understand what colon is and its functions. Digestion of food starts from chewing it in the mouth and ends with excretion of waste from rectum & anus. Once the swallowed food reaches the stomach, it is broken down into smaller particles that then pass into the small intestines. In the small intestines,…
Inflammatory Bowel Disease – A medical condition when the large bowel (large intestine) or small bowels (small intestines) gets inflamed due to various reasons. Crohn’s disease is one such Inflammatory Bowel Disease that causes inflammation of the digestive tract. The areas affected by this disease can vary from person to person and it can often…
In medical terms, if a person is passing stools less than 3 times a week, he/she is said to be suffering from constipation. General definition of constipation is ‘infrequent bowel movements or difficulty in passing stools’. If a person has been having this condition for quite some time, he/she is said to be suffering from…
What is Vaginal Agenesis? Vaginal Agenesis is a congenital (by birth) defect where in the baby will have an under developed vagina and in rare case, the baby may not have vagina at all. In such babies, other problems may also be found such as absence of a kidney or both or the kidneys may…
Women’s pelvic muscles lose strength with mainly 3 factors: Pregnancy, Child birth, especially with vaginal child birth Age If you haven’t read our previous article that talks about ‘How pregnancy affects the pelvic floor muscles’, please click on the below link and read through. Effect of Pregnancy and Child birth on pelvic floor The loss…
When a woman gets pregnant, what we see is the changes in her body externally. But, there are several other changes that happen internally in her body that are not visible. The physical changes that happen in a woman’s body during pregnancy are detrimental to the muscles, nerves, connecting tissues in her pelvis region. Weakening…
Kidney stones have become a very common problem. While small stones form and go away with urine, as they grow larger, it becomes difficult to pass and become a very painful condition causing vomiting, bleeding etc. Before you lean about the home remedies to prevent and treat kidney stones, it is important to learn about…
The internal lining of the uterus is called ‘Endometrium’. Scraping and collecting a part of the endometrium to check for cancer cells or abnormal cell growth is called endometrial biopsy. Variation in hormone levels, uterine infections such as endometritis can also be inferred from endometrial biopsy. Endometrial biopsy is done as an outpatient procedure without…
What is Endometrium? Endometrium is the inner lining of the uterus. This layer is shed regularly during menstruation of women if they don’t get pregnant. In some women, the endometrium layer becomes thick (thickens) and causes unusual bleeding. This condition is called ‘Endometrial Hyperplasia’. Endometrial Hyperplasia can be cancerous or benign depending on the presence…
Uterine cancer is a medical condition where cancer tumors form on the inner lining of the uterus. The inner lining of the uterus is called Endometrium, hence the name Endometrial cancer. The outer layer of the uterus is made of muscles and it is called Myometrium. Endometrial cancer is different from the cancer that occurs…
There are several different treatment options for prostate cancer depending on the person’s age, stage of the cancer, how soon it is spreading. Treatment options include: Surgical Removal of Prostate Radiation Therapy Hormone Therapy Freezing Prostate Tissue Chemotherapy Biological / Autoimmune Therapy If you have not read about Symptoms, causes and diagnosis of Prostate Cancer,…
Prostate is a small walnut shaped organ in men that exists just below the bladder. Prostate controls the opening and closing of urethra and helps a man empty his bladder. Prostate also produces seminal fluids that gets mixed with the sperms and comes out as ejaculate. Prostate cancer is one type of cancer that grows…
Fibroids are benign tumors that grow on the lining of the uterus or outside of it. There are different types of fibroids classified depending on the place they grow. To know more on types of fibroids, you can refer to the following article: Types of fiboirds Some fibroids don’t show any symptoms. They don’t cause…
What is dialysis? Healthy kidneys filter unwanted waste products, drugs, toxins etc from our blood in the form of urine. When kidneys are damaged due to various reasons, the waste products in the blood make a life threatening condition. So, our specialists invented an artificial cleaning mechanism which mimics the functioning of kidneys, called ‘dialysis’.…
How men can manage Urinary Incontinence? Urinary Incontinence, a medical condition where a person is unable to control his/her bladder and the urine leaks out. Abdomen can feel pressurised when a person bends, lifts objects, sneezes, coughs etc. While this is categorized as one type of incontinence, there are other types of incontinence where the…
Knowing about Kidney Cancer (Renal Cancer) The bean shaped organs sitting in the lower abdomen on either side of the spinal cord are the Kidneys. They clean the blood by removing/filtering the waste from it and making urine. Kidney Cancer is a medical condition when the cells inside the kidneys become cancerous and multiply in…
Prostatitis – Prostate Infection Prostate is a walnut sized organ that sits at the end of the penis (inside the body) and right below the bladder. The urethra that carries urine from the bladder through the penis passes through the prostate organ. Prostate controls the passage of urine through the urethra. Prostatitis is a medical…
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) – Enlarged Prostate Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia is a common condition in aged men. Prostate is an organ in the pelvis area, located right below the bladder. Prostate makes most of the fluid that forms a part of semen. This liquid along with sperm is pushed out of the penis during ejaculation.…
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Pelvic floor is formed by a group of muscles and ligaments in the pelvic region. They stretch like a band and contract as needed from front to back or side to side. Pelvis contains soft organs such as bladder, rectum, uterus (in women) , prostate etc. The muscles around these organs support…
Types of Kidney stones – Part 2 Calcium Phosphate Stones In our previous article, we mentioned about Calcium Oxalate Stones and how they are formed. If you want to start reading from there, you can click on the below link: Calcium Oxalate Stones Next in line are ‘Calcium Phosphate Stones’. Before we get into the…
Types of Kidney stones – Part 1 – Calcium Oxalate Stones Calcium Oxalate Stones, the most common type of Kidney stones are formed due to excess Calcium or Oxalate or Uric acid along with low citrates. Kidneys clean the blood by filtering waste products such as salts and fluids or liquids and pass them as…
Diagnosis & Treatment of Kidney Stones Kidney stones are small solid rock like objects that form in the kidneys. The function of kidneys is to clear the waste products and fluids from the body. In this process, the excess acids and salts form turn into solid causing severe pain in the side of abdominal area,…
Treatment options for Uterine Fibroids Fibroids are non cancerous (benign) tumours that can be as small as a pea nut or as large as an orange. Depending on the place where they grow and how they grow, they are classified into different types. Typically as long as these fibroids don’t show any symptoms, you are…
Ureterocele – a duplex anamoly In a human body, kidneys filters and removes waste matter and excess water from the blood. This waste is transferred to the urinary bladder through ‘ureters’. In normal conditions, one kidney will have one ureter connected to the bladder. In the lower side of the bladder, there will be another…
Urotrauma – What is it? An injury to urinary tract or reproductive organs is termed as ‘Urotrauma’. The cause of the injury can be anything such as an accident, a fight, bad fall from a height hurting your abdominal area, consumption or breathing of chemicals, injury due a weapon/tool etc. If any of the organs…
Different types of fibroids Fibroids are abnormal growth tissues that develop inside or on the uterus of a woman. Sometimes, they can be small and show no symptoms of any kind. Some times, they can grow very large in size and cause severe abdominal pain, heavy bleeding during mestruation. What actually causes fibroids is not…
Surgical treatment of Piles / Hemorrhoids:As you may be aware, Piles/Hemorrhoids are swollen veins that can be present inside the rectum or at the end of it (outside). They are called Internal Hemorrhoids and External Hemorrhoids respectively. Sometimes, they go away on their own without need of any treatment. However, if you start seeing blood…
Hysterectomy is a procedure where the uterus (womb) of woman is removed in different ways. In fact, there exits different types of Hysterectomy surgeries where only upper part of Uterus is removed or entire Uterus and cervix are removed or in extreme cases entire Uterus, Cerfix, Fallopian tubes, vagina and ovaries are removed. The reason…
When does your (Uro)gynecologist suggest Hysterectomy? Hysterectomy is a procedure where the uterus (womb) of woman is removed in different ways. In fact, there exits different types of Hysterectomy surgeries where only upper part of Uterus is removed or entire Uterus and cervix are removed or in extreme cases entire Uterus, Cervix, fallopian tubes, vagina…
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