El Hospital infant Jesus is in the treatment of urinary dysfunction.
the ongoing Pediatric urotherapy has addressed.
Spain, February 2012. The retainer habit mictional, more frequent in women than in the male population, can cause major urinary and kidney diseases. In a training course organized in the child Jesus Hospital has recalled the importance of prevention through proper education since that is removed the diaper of the child and has taught, from the theoretical and practical point of view what is the Pediatric urotherapy.
Understand common and popularly as a peculiarity, urinary retention is a wrong habit can cause both adult patients paediatric diseases and very serious consequences. By the relevance acquired and the possibility of preventing them, parents and nursery staff must be aware of the need to get children and particularly girls acquire the urinary habit right, avoiding constant retention of urine.
Children with this bad habit acquired, have very large bladders little contractile capacity and in which just failing the continence mechanism, both the sphincter as the ureters, and can cause problems because for retention, urine returns upwards, or because they no longer remains in the bladder producing infections urinary repetition which just affecting seriously the urinary tract ”, explains Dr. Jorge RodrÃguez de Alarcón, medical service of paediatric surgery of the child Jesus Hospital team, and organizer of the course Pediatric Urotherapy dysfunctional urination: from theory to practice ”.
Re-education as part of therapy
The consequences may occur at the stage adult but also and very often during childhood. To be able to solve them satisfactorily, there to treat not only infections or problems, but involved in the re education or learning of the urinary habit of the patient.
In this part of the whole process is impresdindible intervention of nursing professionals who, using a computer tool easy and fun for patients via a computer connected to the abdomen of the patient, learn to recognize and correctly interpret the stimuli of urination. This learning is part therapeutic is known as urotherapy or biofeed back mictional process.
