The Genito-urinary tract is
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probably the most wonderful
the most complex system in the
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body apart from the
central nervous system.
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It's so complex it is
so wonderful that sometimes
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it has some problems with
it and we will be discussing
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some of the problems that the
genito-urinary system can have
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in this next program, we hope
that you will join us for it.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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Because of it's complexity
and because of the diligent work
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that it does all the time
day and night, because of that
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kidney is subject to certain
problems that other parts
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of the body may
not be subject to.
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One of the things that it has
to do is to take care of every
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bit of the blood that
courses through the body,
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all the blood that the
heart pumps through the kidneys
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at one time or other to get
cleansed and to get purified
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also to have some readjustments
of the PH, of the blood and
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of a variety of other things.
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The kidney is responsible
for taking excess water out of
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the blood or if the blood
is a little bit slow on getting
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water from your elementary
tract, then the kidney is
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responsible for
conserving water.
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It has a wonderful mechanism
for re-absorbing all the water
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from the blood that flows
through the little nephrons
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that make up the
functioning units of the kidney.
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Now the kidney is constantly
busy day and night and while it
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has a little rest during
the night, it doesn't work quite
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so hard and certain of it's
units rest today and then they
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wake up and work
tomorrow, then after a few hours
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of working they rest again
and then wake up and work again.
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It's a very marvelous mechanism
to control which nephrons work
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and which ones don't
work at any given time.
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Now as blood flows through
the kidneys if it has germs
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in the blood then because of
the complexity of the workings
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of the little blood
vessels inside the kidney,
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because of that these germs
can be filtered out and can
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setup
housekeeping in the kidney.
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Now the kidney is pretty
resistant to infection so it
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doesn't get infected often,
but when it does get infected
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it can cause a very
serious problem, the fever goes
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sky high, the person is
prostrate, they can't get out
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of bed, they can be so
sick that they have no appetite,
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they may have pain in the back,
they may have pain on urination
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and they are really quite
sick, quite intensely sick.
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Now to get some idea of
how the kidney is fairing
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you can do a very mild
examination and I have asked
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Justina to help me showing
you how to do an examination.
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This is Justina Thomas and
we will need to examine her from
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the back, it's a very simple
operation to do this little
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maneuver, you first find
the waist and that's here,
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and then you find the
inferior angle of the scapula,
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that's right here, so
half way between the waist and
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the scapula is right
here, now if you will slide your
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finger once you have
found that toward the spine
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so here is spine and if you'll
slide your finger towards that
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you'll be just about at
the upper pole of the kidneys
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so the kidney is
going to be right here.
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So the first thing that
you can do is simply to rub it
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just like this, you rub
it, Justina does that hurt?
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- No! - No, well
now if she had acute
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pyelonephritis she might
say yes, now once you have done
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that and that doesn't cause
pain, then you put your hand
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on it take your fist, and
you do that, did that hurt?
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- Yes! - It didn't
hurt her but if she
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had had pyelonephritis it
might have, she might have been
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very much hurt by
that, so with a normal person
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you can give them a good sharp
blow and there is no problem
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but a person with pyelonephritis
don't give them a hard blow
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like that, you just make a
little tap and then ask them
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did that cause pain?
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If it does cause pain,
then you have a very sick kidney
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now at the same time
that you have done this little
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maneuver on the patient,
you can ask them the questions
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the questions that I
have just gone over that is:
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Do you have pain on urination,
is there a problem with pain
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when I don't pound on
it, how high is the fever,
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all of those things are
things that can help you to know
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if the patient
has pyelonephritis,
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thank you Justina.
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Now understanding this about
pyelonephritis does not give you
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much of the understanding of
the seriousness of this disease
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it can be so serious that it
can make little abscesses that
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then heal with a scar, the
kidney can loose a great deal
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with a very serious case of
pyelonephritis, the person can
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get a third or a half of
the kidney destroyed by these
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abscesses that occur in
the kidney, so it can be
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quite serious.
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Very fortunately most of
the time the pyelonephritis
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is not very serious, does
not give the serious symptoms
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that I have mentioned but
merely have the person to be
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like having the flu or a
cold, they may ache a little
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and have a little fever
and they may want to lie around
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the house for a day or so
and they do have some urinary
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tract symptoms with
pain or burning on urination.
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When they look at the stool
after they have passed their
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urine they see in the commode
bloody urine or smoky urine.
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The smoke color is very
specific of blood in the urine,
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so this smoky color can alert
you that the problem is still
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going on even when the
patient feels quite good.
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Now what can you do for
this problem if you don't have
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professional help and of course
for something as serious as
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pyelonephritis you'll want
the best professional help that
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you can get, but let's say that
you are in a field situation,
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you don't have a physician near
by and you believe that your
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patient has pyelonephritis,
the look of the urine,
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the symptoms that the person
has, your examination which
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reveals tenderness in the proper
area, then what can you do?
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the first thing is to
give hot packs to the abdomen,
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these should be fairly short
so that you put the pack on
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the back and after a short while
you make a change so that it's
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an ice pack, so it's a
hot pack and then an ice pack,
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three minutes for the hot,
about 30-60 seconds for the
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cold, the icy cold and
then when you have finished with
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that part then you repeat that
five times and then you give
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a massage.
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Now the massage is not one
that you really go in there
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after it and you do all sorts
of things that may be very nice
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for a person who is in
good health, but for the person
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with pyelonephritis you
make the massage rather gentle
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except that you want to friction
the skin, so the skin can be
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frictioned with a quick movement
but not with a lot of pressure
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and that is a very good
hydrotherapy and finish for
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the patient with pyelonephritis.
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Now in addition to
that you can use a number of
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anti-microbial herbs, and
the very minute that you suspect
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that a person may have a urinary
tract infection start right in
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at that time with
the herbal preparations,
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those that are anti-microbial
include those that contain
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Golden Seal, Astragalus,
Echinacea, maybe Elderberry,
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perhaps some Grapefruit
Seed Extract, garlic, Myrrh,
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Calendula, all of those are
anti-microbial and there are
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many others in countries
far flung all over the world
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there are the anti-microbial
herbs which you can find
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in that area and apply those.
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Now having done all of
these you may still have a sick
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patient, so one of the things
that you can do additionally
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is to put an ice pack on
the lower end of the sternum,
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that's the breast bone,
so at the lower end of it
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you put an ice pack there
so that increases inflectively
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the flow of urine.
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Now having done these things
you can feel that your patient
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is going to have the very
best chance of getting well,
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persist in the treatment, don't
feel that when the patient's
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symptoms subside a bit your
work is done, you must continue
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as long as you continue to
have blood or pus in the urine.
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So just look at it and
catch the urine in a clear glass
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or a little jar and just
look at it with the light,
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and if it's cloudy then
you are probably still having
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white blood cells and
puss in the urine, and germs
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in the urine, so in this
way you can help your patient
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to get over pyelonephritis.
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Now there is another problem
with the kidneys that you need
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to know something about,
and that's kidney stones and
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Dr. Don Miller will tell you
something about kidney stones,
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it must be the most
exquisite pain that a person
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ever experiences Dr. Miller.
- Well, exquisite pain for sure
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as a matter of fact if you
never had one you don't know
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unless you've had a baby,
they say that passing the stone
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is similar to having a baby.
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So if you've had a baby
you know what it must be like
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to have a stone, well God
be with you because it's a
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miserable experience.
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We have to understand
that some people happen to be
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stone formers, that doesn't
mean that you are going to have
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stones, it means that you
have to be so much more careful
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lifestyle because it's
many lifestyle related things
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that are going
to cause the stones.
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You can go to some parts
of the world they don't have
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kidney stones, it's because
their lifestyles do not promote
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kidney stones.
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The symptoms of kidney
stones are initially you have a
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dull dragging from the
lower part of the back towards
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the front of the abdomen
and that's a sign that you are
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going to have some
problems but you really get the
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kidney stone when it's passed
from the kidney into the ureter
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now is when you
have the big problems.
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Excruciating pain at times
blood and puss in the urine
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all these are signs that
you have a stone, you won't be
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mistaken when you have one
of those things because the
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pain will tell you.
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There are some things
that you can do for it.
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I had a friend one time that
had a really bad kidney stone
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attack, and whenever he
would have one of these things
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he would take a very warm bath.
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We find that warmth has a
tendency to be very analgesic,
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to let the pain go away,
it relaxes the vascular system
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relaxes the ureters, allows
the pressure to be taken off
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and therefore a
good relief was gained,
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but that does not
solve the problem.
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Let's go back a minute
and find out why do we get the
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stones in the first
place, there are various types
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of stones, about 70-
80% of the stones are
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calcium oxalate stones.
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Basically the body is
excreting calcium oxalate foods,
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if a person is a stone former
and they realize that their
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stones are calcium oxalate
they need to stay off of the
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oxalate containing foods
which are these: First of all
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I recommend that we stay off
of these foods that I am going
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to mention this first
group of foods all the time,
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for any reason, these are
the brown drink foods, your tea,
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coffee, colas, and chocolate,
these things are not fit for
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human consumption, these
things are high in oxalate
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and they are going to
cause you to loose calcium and
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if you loose a lot of calcium
then you are going to form
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the stones.
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There are other things,
good foods like beet greens,
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probably the highest oxalate
food that there is Rhubarb,
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Rhubarb is not the best food
to take especially if you are
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a stone former, citrus fruit
is high in oxalates, grapes,
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so there are some good foods
that we have to stay away from.
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Sweet potatoes is an oxalate
food, now I am just talking
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to you people who are
stone formers who have formed
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calcium oxalate stones.
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Everyone else, these last few
foods go ahead and enjoy them
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as much as possible.
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Figs, tomatoes, and
plumbs, are high in oxalates,
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if you are an oxalate
former stay away from these.
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The other ones are uric acid
stones, people who have high
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blood urea because
they are high meat eaters or
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dairy products, cheese,
you are going to have a high
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uric acid level and you
are going to pass this to the
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kidneys, it's going to
crystallize, form a stone
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and that's about 10% of the
stones, so the cure there is
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or at least wise the
prevention is get off the meats,
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that's the number one
thing get off the meats and you
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will probably not
have the problem with those
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particular stones, dairy
products is always one of
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those things that
you need to leave off.
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Stones normally form in middle
aged men, women seem to get
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gall stones, men seem to get
kidney stones and it's usually
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middle aged, not to say
that you can't get them younger,
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I've know young people
with the stones, it is becoming
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more and more common.
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You see our lifestyles today
are such that we're causing
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our bodies to always be flushing
calcium, we are told to take
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take more calcium, but
they don't tell us how to retain
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the calcium that we are taking.
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First of all to retain
your calcium take it in a more
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bio-available form which
is in your foods like greens
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and fruits and vegetables,
not in animal products,
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these are not very kind to the
body they like to dump right on
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out of the body so stay away
from those foods that do this.
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Mineral loss of all types, we
realize that the Para-thyroids
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are monitoring your blood level
of your calcium, and when the
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calcium goes down in the blood
it says look we have to bring
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the calcium back up and so
it sends to the bones to give up
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some of it's calcium
to go back into the blood,
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but then if we have a
high protein diet which causes
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the calcium to go down through
the kidneys it works all over
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again, so besides
having the kidney stones,
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as a matter of fact
American's lead the world in
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kidney disease, we also
lead the world in osteoporosis
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we also lead the world in
dairy and meat consumption
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so maybe this is not so curative
after all, that we do not need
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these products.
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Dehydration, people are just not
hydrated, we are finding that
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osteoporosis is becoming a
childhood disease because of
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the high soda intake
which is high in phosphoric acid
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the phosphoric acid also
causes the calcium to flow out
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of the body, the calcium
concentrating in the kidneys
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forming the stones
and therefore we have the
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kidney stone problem, so
we need to get a diet that is
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friendly, a kidney friendly
diet, and water is the thing,
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now there are some
things that we can do to help us
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to pass more water,
things like watermelon seed tea.
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In the summer time eat
lots of watermelon it's a good
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diuretic, and then as
you are eating the watermelon
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save the seeds, take the seeds
grind them up and store them
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in a glass jar for the
wintertime when you can make
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watermelon seed tea.
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Also in the summer time eat
lots of corn and save the silk
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dry it, powder it, put it
in a jar make corn silk tea,
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these are very nice diuretics,
help you diurese, pass a lot
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of water, keep those kidneys
clean, you have to flush those
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kidneys, they filter
about 50 gallons of water a day
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or fluids a day, your
blood is going through there,
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lot's of things are
going through, if you have good
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quality of water in your
system you will keep them clean
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and the stones can not form.
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Cranberry juice would be good
to try to dissolve some of these
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stones so we have a person
go on either cranberry juice
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or vitamin C supplementation
to help make the urine
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a little bit more acid
to dissolve the stones.
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You can make a potassium broth,
take thick peelings of potatoes
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along with onions,
garlic, and carrots simmer this
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for 30-40 min, make a broth
and drink this about 3 or 4
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glasses a day is a good
thing to help with the stones.
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There are certain herbs
that you can take, licorice herb
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is a good ureter relaxer, you
realize that when you have this
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stone passing down through
the ureter, it's the pain of
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pressure on the ureter
itself that causes the pain.
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We realize that some of these
things don't have pain sensation
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other than this distention, it's
like the bowels, you can stick a
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knife in them you won't feel
it but if they get distended
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by gas you have excruciating
pain, so it's that stone
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in there so the licorice will
cause that to relax a bit and
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take away some of the pain.
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Horsetail tea, this is one
that is quite popular in the
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German countries, I have
read some here in this country
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we need to be more aware of
the benefits of horsetail tea.
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Parsley tea and Stinging
Nettle, I was first introduced
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to Stinging Nettle in
Uchee Pines when I was walking
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out in the woods and I sat
down and happened to sit on a
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Stinging Nettle and I
found out why they call it
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Stinging Nettle, but it
also makes a very good tea,
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very good for kidney stones,
and there is various ways
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I'm sure a lot of
folk literature on
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this and that's where we get
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our simple remedies is
from basically the folklore but
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there is one way that I have
read about and heard that it's
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quite effective in
dissolving the stones.
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Basically here is what you do,
you take between 3 quarts and
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one gallon of hot water with
lemon juice or cranberry juice
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in it and you drink that for
three days, that's what you are
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doing, you are drinking a
lot of water, hot water with
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lemon juice or cranberry juice
in there, on the third day you
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take two ounces of olive
oil, this may set yourself up to
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pass that stone or
to dissolve the stone.
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But again the best way to
take care of your kidney stones
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is don't get them in the first
place, get a good dietary that
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will stay away from
them and you won't have that
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child birth feeling, especially
for men, I don't think we
00:20:18.96\00:20:22.21
want to go through that
experience, you have Dr. Thrash
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do you think I
want to go through that?
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- I don't think so but I
understand from those who
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have had it that kidney stone
is worse than having the baby.
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It may be similar, but for
those women who have had both
00:20:36.51\00:20:40.69
kidney stone and child birth
they say that the kidney stone
00:20:40.72\00:20:44.41
is worse.
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Those who have had heart
attacks and stones say that the
00:20:45.42\00:20:48.76
heart attack is not as
bad as the kidney stones,
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it must be excruciating
and I have seen people walking
00:20:53.37\00:20:57.23
up and down wringing
their hands just waiting for
00:20:57.26\00:21:01.25
their shot of a
narcotic, and there certainly is
00:21:01.28\00:21:04.35
justifiable if you can't control
the pain in any other way
00:21:04.38\00:21:08.30
to have them take a narcotic.
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Now some of the foods that you
can eat I was glad to hear the
00:21:10.98\00:21:15.90
formula of the potato
with the celery and carrots and
00:21:15.93\00:21:23.91
onion in it, I'm not sure
that celery was mentioned but
00:21:23.94\00:21:26.57
celery should be in the soup
that was given to people who
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have kidney stones,
and avocado, bananas, soy,
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buckwheat,
barley, oats and rice,
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all of these are high
in magnesium, they are
00:21:37.91\00:21:40.69
very good foods for a person
with kidney stones to eat.
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Then there are some excellent
herbs they are good for any part
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of the genito-urinary
tract including the incontinence
00:21:47.90\00:21:51.41
that I'm going to talk about
next, these herbs are dandelion,
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that's a hot tea if it's
for stones, use it as a hot tea
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and golden rod hot tea,
and the demulcent herbs,
00:21:59.77\00:22:04.84
these are all of those
that soothe the body in some way
00:22:04.87\00:22:10.19
that would include marshmallow
root, and slippery elm,
00:22:10.22\00:22:14.23
and a large number
that are like that.
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Couch grass and corn silk, all
of those are demulcent herbs and
00:22:16.45\00:22:21.94
can be very helpful for
the people who have the pain
00:22:21.97\00:22:25.59
of kidney stone.
00:22:25.62\00:22:26.59
Now incontinence is an
involuntary loss of urine
00:22:26.60\00:22:31.48
either day or night, sometimes
caused by urge and sometimes
00:22:31.51\00:22:37.73
caused by other things, some
of the reasons why people have
00:22:37.76\00:22:43.05
incontinence one is
that there has been retention
00:22:43.08\00:22:47.35
and there is overflow after
the retention and that can be
00:22:47.38\00:22:50.98
from paralysis or from
nerves or whatever, or delay in
00:22:51.01\00:22:56.12
answering the call to urinate,
and whatever it may be if the
00:22:56.15\00:23:01.03
bladder has become so distended
that it now sort of is paralyzed
00:23:01.06\00:23:07.41
and cannot empty itself,
then you may just have overflow
00:23:07.44\00:23:11.41
incontinence from that, stenosis
of the urethra which is the
00:23:11.44\00:23:18.94
tube that leads to the outside
of the body, a stricture in that
00:23:18.97\00:23:22.41
can cause retention in the
bladder and that can be most
00:23:22.44\00:23:27.46
uncomfortable once it happens.
00:23:27.49\00:23:30.22
Benign prostatic
hypertrophy in men can cause
00:23:30.25\00:23:34.98
urinary retention and
over distention followed by
00:23:35.01\00:23:39.12
incontinence and of course a
spinal cord tumor or a spinal
00:23:39.15\00:23:43.70
cord injury can also cause
retention of urine and then
00:23:43.73\00:23:48.69
with overflow incontinence.
00:23:48.72\00:23:50.64
Stress incontinence is probably
one of the most distressing
00:23:50.67\00:23:54.90
because it can occur with
coughing, giggling, laughing,
00:23:54.93\00:23:59.35
with any strong
emotion, with crying, sneezing,
00:23:59.38\00:24:03.93
or lifting something,
that can cause a great deal of
00:24:03.96\00:24:08.18
embarrassment for people
and the incontinence that we get
00:24:08.21\00:24:11.73
with that is a little bit
difficult to handle as well.
00:24:11.76\00:24:16.27
If there has been a
prostatectomy, especially if
00:24:16.30\00:24:20.30
it's been a super pubic
prostatectomy that can leave
00:24:20.33\00:24:23.96
the person with a
damaged internal sphincter,
00:24:23.99\00:24:26.75
which is the muscle that holds
the urine right at the bladder
00:24:26.78\00:24:30.73
neck or the external sphincter
which is the little muscle
00:24:30.76\00:24:35.37
bundle that encircles the
urethra to keep it from loosing
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.48
urine, you have more control
over the external than you do
00:24:39.51\00:24:42.96
the internal which is largely
controlled by psychological
00:24:42.99\00:24:46.56
factors and the
pressures inside the bladder.
00:24:46.59\00:24:50.39
If you have those kinds
of things then you can expect
00:24:50.42\00:24:55.37
that at times you
may have incontinence.
00:24:55.40\00:24:57.96
Now as we get older, older
women in particular who have had
00:24:57.99\00:25:02.67
multiple children, they
tend to be more afflicted by
00:25:02.70\00:25:07.60
incontinence than
younger women, and one of the
00:25:07.63\00:25:12.00
nice things that an older woman
can do is the kegel exercises,
00:25:12.03\00:25:16.65
they are very simple to
do and don't take much time
00:25:16.68\00:25:20.29
because a woman can do
the exercise when she's riding
00:25:20.32\00:25:24.39
along or when she's sitting
at her desk, or washing dishes,
00:25:24.93\00:25:27.73
or doing a number of other
types of activities that don't
00:25:27.76\00:25:32.62
require a lot of thought.
00:25:32.65\00:25:34.30
Now the kegel exercises
contracts the same muscles
00:25:34.33\00:25:39.68
that one would
contract if one wants to
00:25:39.71\00:25:42.40
turn off the
flow of urine when one
00:25:42.44\00:25:45.10
has begun to void, so if she
begins to void and then stops
00:25:45.13\00:25:49.22
the flow of urine.
00:25:49.25\00:25:50.22
Pay attention to the muscles
that are involved in that
00:25:50.23\00:25:54.49
process and then what she does
after that is simply do a series
00:25:54.52\00:25:59.08
of ten three times she contracts
holds it for three seconds
00:25:59.11\00:26:05.21
relaxes, three seconds
more, relaxes, for ten times
00:26:05.24\00:26:09.29
and repeats that three times
at that time, three sets of them
00:26:09.32\00:26:13.80
at one time.
00:26:13.83\00:26:15.08
Then another time of the
day she does three more sets,
00:26:15.11\00:26:18.75
another time of the day
she does three more sets for
00:26:18.78\00:26:21.39
a total of 90 contractions
through the day and that's
00:26:21.42\00:26:26.15
the kegel exercise it's very
simple to do, very effective,
00:26:26.18\00:26:30.72
but many women think
that's so simple that couldn't
00:26:30.75\00:26:34.81
possibly help me with my serious
problem, mine is much to serious
00:26:34.84\00:26:38.55
for that to be effective
and so they don't even try it
00:26:38.58\00:26:41.67
and unfortunately because
of that they may not get the
00:26:41.70\00:26:47.46
benefit that they require.
00:26:47.49\00:26:48.90
Now of course there are
some psychological factors that
00:26:48.93\00:26:52.75
can cause incontinence but they
are not very important for you
00:26:52.78\00:26:58.89
to know about, they
require generally some kind of
00:26:58.92\00:27:02.02
professional help.
00:27:02.05\00:27:03.06
The last thing that I would
like to talk about is that of
00:27:03.09\00:27:07.23
kidney failure, kidney failure
is that of that happens when
00:27:07.26\00:27:11.36
at least 90% of the functioning
units of the kidney have been
00:27:11.39\00:27:19.14
lost for one reason or
other, they do require dialysis
00:27:19.17\00:27:22.96
of one kind or other, and
the kind of diet that you have
00:27:22.99\00:27:27.80
can be a vegetarian diet,
although most dialysis centers
00:27:27.83\00:27:32.56
don't have nutritionists who
are knowledgeable enough to help
00:27:32.59\00:27:36.61
you with that but if you
look carefully you will be able
00:27:36.64\00:27:39.20
to find a good diet that
will work in harmony with
00:27:39.23\00:27:43.45
your dialysis.
00:27:43.48\00:27:44.62
Now these are a few of the
problems that can occur with
00:27:44.65\00:27:50.15
the kidneys and the entire
system, and we hope that our
00:27:50.18\00:27:53.86
discussion of it will
be a great blessing to you.
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