Bladder stones

    written by: Muhammad Arif Rahimi

Bladder stones are hard masses of minerals in your bladder. Bladder stones develop when the minerals in concentrated urine crystallize. This often happens when you can't completely empty your bladder. Signs and symptoms can vary from severe abdominal pain to blood existence in your urine.

 AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to some patients and a doctor about the signs and symptoms of this disease.

Qari Anargul, a resident of Farza district, Kabul province says: “I suffer from the bladder stones. I feel irritation during urination and I also face vomiting and nausea.”

Gul Ahmad, a resident of Laghman province says: “I have a 9 mm stone in my bladder. My abdomen is swollen and I suffer from irritation during expelling urine.”

Doctor Abdullah Islampal, an urologist at Jamhoriat hospital, Kabul city says: “. At the beginning, there would be no pain but after infection, the patient would suffer from Irritation during urination; going to the toilet several times in the night; swelling of abdomen; fever and nausea are the symptoms of bladder stones.”

What do people think about the causes of bladder stones?

Nawda, a resident of Kunar province says: “the bladder stone is formed when someone does not empty her/his bladder.”

Ibadullah Wardak, who suffer from bladder stone says that the doctor told him that if someone does not treat his/her gonorrhea on time, the bladder stones might be formed in the bladder.

Qari Anargul says: “the doctor told me that I had a stone in my kidney and that stone has moved to my bladder.”

Doctor Islampal says: “The main cause of bladder stone is the waste of water of human body by sweating during working under sun in the summer; not treating prostate and gonorrhea on time cause microbes to enter into bladder and keeping urine for a long time in bladder forms stones and sometimes stone moves from the kidneys to bladder too.”

Home medicines:

Ibadullah Wardak says: “I drank 3 glass boiled cherry seeds water before the meal in the morning, the physician said that 3mm stone has moved out from my bladder with urine.”

Gul Muhammad, a resident of Laghman province says that he used many kinds of home medicine but none of them helped him.

Doctor Islampal says: “no research has done yet about these kinds of home medicines but drinking more water and liquids help a small bladder stone to move from the bladder during urination, if not, medicines or surgical operation would be required.”

Prevention and Treatment:

Sayed Imam, a resident of Mirbachacot district of Kabul province says: “We break stones in the mountain and when we sweat, we sit in a shadow, cover our heads with shawls, drink more tea and we have not suffered from bladder stones yet.”

Yasmin Sadat, a resident of Paghman district, Kabul province says: “I drink 4-5 glasses water before the breakfast, do exercise regularly and I have not faced bladder stones disease yet.”

Doctor Islampal confirms what the people said and adds: “if we drink more liquid, especially water and tea in hot weather; avoid hard working under direct sun rays in the summer; reduce our weight; urinate when it’s needed; use fans in the hot weather and treat prostate and urinary diseases on time, we would be saved from bladder stones and many other diseases.”