new YORK (Reuters Health) – A study suggests that many

persons taking ketamine could develop pain

abdominal, incontinence and other urinary symptoms.

In medicine, ketamine is used as an anesthetic. In the

nightclubs, where it is known as “Special K”, aims to

or, sometimes, injected; consumers experiencing euphoria and

the feeling “out of body”.

The use of the drug is increasing in many countries and

is associated with cognitive, such as hallucinations disorders

and memory and concentration problems. Also causes

hypertension.

Adverse effects do not end there. They are also the

urinary symptoms, such as pain in the lower part of the abdomen and the

urination, blood in the urine and incontinence. But, so far,

non-existent statistics of these adverse effects.

In the new study, a team of United Kingdom found that the

27 percent of 1,285 young adults who had been abused in the

ketamine had urinary symptoms. And that at higher doses or

frequency of consumption, were more likely to have these symptoms.

This gives an idea of the prevalence of symptoms

urinary in consumers of ketamine, according to felt Angela d.

Cottrell, researcher at the Institute of Urology of Bristol and

co-author of the study.

Although it is unknown what the difference would be with the

prevalence of these symptoms in the general population of young, the

Cottrell team ensures that the results confirm that

there is a link between the consumption of ketamine and

urinary disorders.

“The message is that the regular consumption of ketamine produces

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severe urinary symptoms”, said Cottrell on the results

published in British Journal of Medicine International to

arise from a survey online for the British magazine MixMag.

3.806 Youth who responded to the survey, half

he said that once he had used drugs and one-third (1285)

than had done it the previous year.

The 17 per cent of the latter group had signs of

Unit to ketamine, as want to abandon it without success,

by which it tended to consume higher doses and more

often than other consumers.

The team noted that, in general, the possibility of

develop abdominal pain and urinary disorders increased to

measure that did the used dose and frequency of the

consumption.

These symptoms tend to disappear to abandon consumption

of drugs.

Source: BJU International, online March 14, 2012