Urinary stone disease, one of the most painful of the urologic disorders, could be treated without surgery with the help of a calcium-channel blocker or an alpha blocker, say scientists.
While many urinary stones are treated with minimally invasive techniques, there is growing evidence to suggest that medication can be an effective treatment, reported the science portal EurekAlert.
Calcium-channel blockers and alpha-blockers are used commonly for management of high blood pressure and enlarged prostates.
John M. Hollingsworth and colleagues, at the Department of Urology at the University of Michigan School, analysed nine trials that included 693 patients.
They examined the use of calcium-channel blockers or alpha-blockers to assist with the passage of urinary stones. In all, they found that patients treated with one of the medications had a 65 percent greater chance of passing the stones spontaneously than patients not given these drugs.
The study published in the latest issue of the Lancet suggests that treatment with these medications is an important first step for patients with an acute urinary stone episode.
"Surgery is still a necessary treatment for many patients with urinary stones," said Brent K. Hollenbeck, one of the researchers.
"However, for many people, a more conservative approach beginning with a trial of a calcium-channel blocker or an alpha blocker is proving to be efficacious."
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The English divine and poet, Samuel Wesley – The Elder [ 1662 – 1735 ], had once written :
THE POET’S FATE IS HERE IN EMBLEM SHOWN,
HE ASKED FOR BREAD, AND HE RECEIVED A STONE.
In this 300 years old poetry, today the place of the poet has been taken over by the patient, and the person who gives the stone now, is the doctor. This is because many-many stones in the patients’ bodies are being developed, as side effects, by the modern medicines prescribed by the doctors. Thus, the above poem may be rewritten as :
THE PATIENT TOOK THE MEDICINES WHICH DOCTOR HAD SHOWN,
THAT PATIENT HAD COME FOR A REMEDY, BUT HE GOT A STONE.
The Med Guru Bureau news titled “Urinary Stones Could Be Treated Without Surgery” [ August 30 ], quoting a research paper of the American Doctor, John M. Holllingsworth, et al., published in Lancet, on the facilitation of passing out of the urinary stones with the help of calcium-channel blockers or alpha-blockers, is indeed quite heartening and revolutionary in the arena of allopathy. However, the reported technique expectedly can work only in the case of tiny stones, for which case the homoeopathic system has already achieved laurels, and the Ayurvedic system has utterly failed. Ayurvedic medicines like CYSTONE of Himalaya Drug Company have proved more than quackery. In one particular case the patient was suffering from excruciating pain due to a very small renal calculus in his ureter, and in the hope of getting rid of it he ate more than five thousand tablets of CYSTONE in the next three years, but the stone did not move even a millimeter. Ultimately the patient underwent surgery. For Ayurvedic medicines like Cystone their benefits are claimed in the scale of ‘miles’ but their effects are not observed even in ‘inches’.
Over the decades the human metabolism has undergone dramatic shake-up owing to strikingly changed food patterns, environmental impacts, and consumption of vivid varieties of newer medicines and other edibles as well as high T.D.S. ( total dissolved solids ) and high silica ( more than 40 mg / litre ) waters. This has resulted, in many of the cases, in the formation of chemically highly complex-natured renal calculidefine hardly or never encountered earlier. Industrialization and overall economic improvement in the living standards leading to lesser consumption of normal home-made simple food and excessive consumption of fast or junk food ( including Chinese foods that contain AJINOMOTO or Monosodium glutamate ) are other factors influencing the creation of new varieties of kidney stones in the human body. Genetically-modified ( G.M. ) foods have also come into the market and they are leaving their own impact on the chemical nature of kidney stones. The effect of microwave cooking has also to be assessed in the generation of a stone.
In many instances, the chemical compositions of the new kidney stones, which have come up now, clearly indicate for re-writing of the chapter of RENAL CALCULI in the text books of pathology, physiology, and clinical biochemistry. Such a state of affairs has arisen following extensive and in-depth chemical analysis of countless samples of kidney stones in my own R. & D. laboratory, KANPUR TEST HOUSE ( KTH ), working under the aegis of CHEMISTRY FOR HUMANITY AND DIVINITY ( an NGO ), in the past many years.
More than 20 per cent of the stones analyzed at KTH showed the presence of up to 10 % silica ( SiO2 ) as one of the important constituents. Xanthine ( 2,6-dihydroxypurine ) and fibrin-containing stones are also not uncommon these days. Some time back KTH had encountered with a six-component, strongly alkaline-natured stone which carried excessive percentage of CALCIUM HYDROXIDE [ Ca(OH)2 ], and MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE, [ Mg(OH)2 ], besides SILICA (SiO2), CALCIUM OXALATE ( CaC2O4 ), TRIPLE PHOSPHATE ( Ca3(PO4)2 + MgNH4PO4 ), alongwith a strange Nitrogen-containing compound of unspecified nature. Many other freak varieties of stones have also come across KTH following in-depth analysis. For the silica content that is now very frequently observed in kidney stones, such antacid medicines are, in my view, responsible that contain silica gel / silicone ( e.g., simeticone or polydimethylsiloxane ), etc. Even many of the unnamed excipients of solid medicines ( tablets, etc. ) are also responsible in the creation of kidney stones, but no body pays attention towards this fact.
In order to prevent recurrence of lithiasis, its exact treatable cause has to be worked out by means of perfect and reliable chemical analysis of the extracted calculi. This is what KTH is aiming at. The results of the stone analysis ought to be studied and understood carefully by the urologists to pinpoint the exact diagnosis and treatment. Unless true, exact, in-depth, and comprehensive test report on the analysis of the extracted sample of the stone is delivered by the analyst, the desirable treatment to prevent recurrence of lithiasis can not be provided by the doctor to the patient.
Any way, my advise to all the stone pain-sufferers is :
KEEP DIAMOND, KEEP RUBY, OR ANY OTHER STONE,
BUT GET RID EARLIEST OF YOUR WANTON KIDNEY STONE.
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KIDNEY STONES ARE MORE STRONGER THAN BONES
The English divine and poet, Samuel Wesley – The Elder [ 1662 – 1735 ], had once written :
THE POET’S FATE IS HERE IN EMBLEM SHOWN,
HE ASKED FOR BREAD, AND HE RECEIVED A STONE.
In this 300 years old poetry, today the place of the poet has been taken over by the patient, and the person who gives the stone now, is the doctor. This is because many-many stones in the patients’ bodies are being developed, as side effects, by the modern medicines prescribed by the doctors. Thus, the above poem may be rewritten as :
THE PATIENT TOOK THE MEDICINES WHICH DOCTOR HAD SHOWN,
THAT PATIENT HAD COME FOR A REMEDY, BUT HE GOT A STONE.
The Med Guru Bureau news titled “Urinary Stones Could Be Treated Without Surgery” [ August 30 ], quoting a research paper of the American Doctor, John M. Holllingsworth, et al., published in Lancet, on the facilitation of passing out of the urinary stones with the help of calcium-channel blockers or alpha-blockers, is indeed quite heartening and revolutionary in the arena of allopathy. However, the reported technique expectedly can work only in the case of tiny stones, for which case the homoeopathic system has already achieved laurels, and the Ayurvedic system has utterly failed. Ayurvedic medicines like CYSTONE of Himalaya Drug Company have proved more than quackery. In one particular case the patient was suffering from excruciating pain due to a very small renal calculus in his ureter, and in the hope of getting rid of it he ate more than five thousand tablets of CYSTONE in the next three years, but the stone did not move even a millimeter. Ultimately the patient underwent surgery. For Ayurvedic medicines like Cystone their benefits are claimed in the scale of ‘miles’ but their effects are not observed even in ‘inches’.
Over the decades the human metabolism has undergone dramatic shake-up owing to strikingly changed food patterns, environmental impacts, and consumption of vivid varieties of newer medicines and other edibles as well as high T.D.S. ( total dissolved solids ) and high silica ( more than 40 mg / litre ) waters. This has resulted, in many of the cases, in the formation of chemically highly complex-natured renal calculidefine hardly or never encountered earlier. Industrialization and overall economic improvement in the living standards leading to lesser consumption of normal home-made simple food and excessive consumption of fast or junk food ( including Chinese foods that contain AJINOMOTO or Monosodium glutamate ) are other factors influencing the creation of new varieties of kidney stones in the human body. Genetically-modified ( G.M. ) foods have also come into the market and they are leaving their own impact on the chemical nature of kidney stones. The effect of microwave cooking has also to be assessed in the generation of a stone.
In many instances, the chemical compositions of the new kidney stones, which have come up now, clearly indicate for re-writing of the chapter of RENAL CALCULI in the text books of pathology, physiology, and clinical biochemistry. Such a state of affairs has arisen following extensive and in-depth chemical analysis of countless samples of kidney stones in my own R. & D. laboratory, KANPUR TEST HOUSE ( KTH ), working under the aegis of CHEMISTRY FOR HUMANITY AND DIVINITY ( an NGO ), in the past many years.
More than 20 per cent of the stones analyzed at KTH showed the presence of up to 10 % silica ( SiO2 ) as one of the important constituents. Xanthine ( 2,6-dihydroxypurine ) and fibrin-containing stones are also not uncommon these days. Some time back KTH had encountered with a six-component, strongly alkaline-natured stone which carried excessive percentage of CALCIUM HYDROXIDE [ Ca(OH)2 ], and MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE, [ Mg(OH)2 ], besides SILICA (SiO2), CALCIUM OXALATE ( CaC2O4 ), TRIPLE PHOSPHATE ( Ca3(PO4)2 + MgNH4PO4 ), alongwith a strange Nitrogen-containing compound of unspecified nature. Many other freak varieties of stones have also come across KTH following in-depth analysis. For the silica content that is now very frequently observed in kidney stones, such antacid medicines are, in my view, responsible that contain silica gel / silicone ( e.g., simeticone or polydimethylsiloxane ), etc. Even many of the unnamed excipients of solid medicines ( tablets, etc. ) are also responsible in the creation of kidney stones, but no body pays attention towards this fact.
In order to prevent recurrence of lithiasis, its exact treatable cause has to be worked out by means of perfect and reliable chemical analysis of the extracted calculi. This is what KTH is aiming at. The results of the stone analysis ought to be studied and understood carefully by the urologists to pinpoint the exact diagnosis and treatment. Unless true, exact, in-depth, and comprehensive test report on the analysis of the extracted sample of the stone is delivered by the analyst, the desirable treatment to prevent recurrence of lithiasis can not be provided by the doctor to the patient.
Any way, my advise to all the stone pain-sufferers is :
KEEP DIAMOND, KEEP RUBY, OR ANY OTHER STONE,
BUT GET RID EARLIEST OF YOUR WANTON KIDNEY STONE.