The summer and high temperatures favour the occurrence of kidney stones.

USP the Hill Tania monsoon nefrologa warns that this disease has a high hereditary component and that to prevent it should drink plenty of water, eat fruits and vegetables and limit the consumption of salt and calcium.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, July of 2012. The arrival of summer and with high temperatures favours the emergence of stones in the kidney or renal lithiasis. The increase in sweating at this time causes increased dehydration, which in turn generates a concentration in the urine of substances which give rise to their training. As underlined the nefrologa of the USP Hospital La Colina, Tania monsoon, is therefore highly recommended to drink more water than usual during these months.

Dr. monsoon recalls that the renal lithiasis is a disease characterized by the formation of calculi or stones in the urinary tract; that it can be hosted on or down the urinary tract causing severe headaches, which are known as colic nephritic.

There are many causes that lead to the formation of gallstones, as the consumption of certain drugs, abnormalities in the urinary tract or alterations in the concentration of the substances that make up urine, although in most cases the reasons for their occurrence are unknown. This is a very common disease that affects between 5% and 10% of the population and where there is a clear family predisposition to insecure ”, adds.

Calculations are usually made up of calcium, oxalate, phosphate, uric or cystine. The way in which form crystals in the urine starts with concentration and supersaturation, what happens more often in summer when we tend to dehydration by excessive sweating ”, adds Dr. monsoon.

Nephritic colic

The most common presentation of this pathology is in the form of colic nephritic; a sudden and intense pain in the lumbar region that radiates and forward the genitals; and it may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. You can also say with the expulsion of pebbles or sand in urine.

Dr. Tania monsoon also stresses that people suffering from nephritic colic are up to 90 percent chance of return to suffer throughout his life.

Prevention

Since it is a very common disease and relapses are very likely, it is advisable to optimize dietary measures, both for treatment and prevention. That is why points it is recommended:

-drinking between 2 and 3 litres of water per day to avoid concentrated urines.

-A diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

-Limit consumption of salt and calcium.

Finally, the monsoon doctor stresses that a person must go to the specialist when he suffered cramps nefriticos repeat, when ejects pebbles or sand with urine and found blood in urine routine analysis and does not suffer an infection. Thus, the specialist may carried out a study of renal function of the patient and the composition of your urine, in addition to making an ultrasound kidney and, according to the results obtained, defining the best treatment.

About USP hospital

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Madrid, USP hospital is the first hospital group in the Spanish market. Currently, USP hospital boasts a network of 12 hospitals, 23 health centres and 4,000 doctors who serve more than two million patients annually. In 2011 the company recorded 327.261 clinical stays, 125.076 surgery, 9.952 births and 506.759 emergency. In the Canary Islands, USP has two centres: USP La Colina, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which was integrated into this private hospital network in February 2005; and USP Costa Adeje, in the South of the island, which did it in 2006.