PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT

While at work, when you are given two different tasks, sometimes you do get confused. The same happens with our kidneys when there is a small mismatch between the tasks assigned to them, i.e., to conserve water, but at the same time filter out smaller substances.

Kidney stones are formed when our kidneys start to conserve more water than necessary. These stones are solid masses of crystals and can develop anywhere in your urinary tract. The major components of these stones are calcium salts, uric acid, cystine, and struvite.

• Are you having problems of frequently visiting the bathrooms to urinate?
• Are you experiencing continuous dribbling of urine?
• Do you feel very often that you haven’t completely urinated and feel the need to urinate again immediately after?
• Do you have to strain a lot urinate?
• Is there always an urgency to urinate?
• Are you embarrassed that you visit the bathroom more often than your co-workers to urinate?
• Are you experiencing sleepless nights as you have to get up frequently at night to urinate?
• Blood in the urine?
• Can you feel that the urinary stream is very slow and short, and you have to strain even in this minimal amount of time?
• Are you over the age of 50 and experiencing the above symptoms?

Prostate enlargement reasons

You might be having the trouble of an enlarged prostate gland, the pressure of which on your bladder and urethra causes all of the symptoms mentioned above.

Most of you might experience any one of these symptoms, even without an enlarged prostate condition. So how do you realise you actually have an issue? If these symptoms are so frequent that they are affecting your quality of life and everyday functioning, or keep getting worse with the advancement of time, you know it is time to visit the Doctor!

Prostate enlargement Risk factors

The major risk factors for the condition are obesity, lifestyle disease like diabetes, a history of the condition in your family and the natural process of aging.  Even though the condition of Benign prostate hyperplasia isn’t life-threatening, the conditions causing the enlargement of the prostate, require immediate attention.

Dr. Pari, the best Prostate specialist in Chennai might identify any of the causes listed below:

• Recurrent Urinary tract infection
• Urethral stricture or narrowing
• Inflammation of the prostate (prostatitis)
• Narrowing of the urethra (urethral stricture)
• Renal or bladder stones
• Neurogenic bladder
• History of previous surgeries that have led to scarring at the neck of the bladder.

Complications and Treatment options

Treatment options range between enlarged prostate medication or surgery and, it will be decided by the best Urology doctor in chennai at the best Urology clinic in chennai based on your age and the severity of the condition and the causative conditions.

The complications that are likely to occur if left untreated are an increased propensity to develop urinary tract infections along with severe damage to the bladder, due to the prolonged stretching that is resultant from incomplete emptying. The damage is not just limited to the bladder but would extend to the kidneys as well! Also, there are possibilities of developing bladder and renal stones. More importantly most of these symptoms may suggest possibility of Prostate cancer too.