Hydronephrosis is a disease resulting from a violation of the outflow of urine, as a result of which there is an increase in hydrostatic pressure, leading to the expansion of the renal calyx and pelvis, as well as atrophy and thinning of the renal tissue. Obstacles to the outflow of urine can appear on any part of the urinary system.
Hydronephrosis can be either congenital or acquired. The disease occurs as a result of functional or anatomical changes. The causes of the disease can be urolithiasis, abnormalities or inflammation of the ureter, additional vessels, prolapse of the kidney, congenital injuries or abnormalities of the urinary tract, prostate and various neoplasms of the bladder or ureter.
When diagnosed with hydronephrosis, treatment is most often used promptly. Depending on the location of the obstacle and its type, as well as the chronic or acute course of the disease, a certain surgical intervention is selected. With the disease, hydronephrosis treatment is aimed at eliminating the causes that impede the normal outflow of urine. Also, drainage of fluid accumulated during the course of the disease is performed.
An obstacle such as a stone is removed through endoscopic surgery.
If the patient has acute urinary tract obstruction complicated by kidney inflammation, then the treatment is carried out in several stages. First, the kidney is drained by introducing a special tube, and then anti-inflammatory treatment. After the kidney begins to function normally, an operation is performed whose purpose is to remove the obstruction and restore the outflow of urine.
If the patient has an obstruction of the urinary tract, as a result of which hydronephrosis has occurred, the treatment in this case involves the installation of a catheter. At the next stage, the causes that lead to a violation of the outflow of urine are eliminated (prostate adenoma is removed).
Congenital hydronephrosis. The initial manifestations of this disease can often disappear on their own, but often they can progress. In the presence of this disease, children need to visit a specialist 3-4 times a year and do an ultrasound the same number of times.
With the disease, hydronephrosis treatment can also be carried out using folk remedies. Decoctions must be taken in combination with the main treatment.
Folk recipes. Decoctions:
- a teaspoon of adonis, 3 tablespoons of birch leaves, a spoonful of nettle dry, a spoon of bearberry, a spoonful of oat grains and the same amount of field horsetail;
- birch leaves and buds, adonis grass, oat grains, bedstraw grass, stonecrop grass, hop cones, field horsetail - all 2 teaspoons each;
- 5 tablespoons of birch buds, a spoon of hoofed grass, the same amount of knotweed grass, 1.5 tablespoons of corn stigmas, 5 tablespoons of bearberry, 1.5 tablespoons of bean leaves and field horsetail (1 spoon);
- birch leaves, dandelion root and juniper fruits - 3 teaspoons each;
- in equal proportions: raspberry leaf, calamus root, currant leaf, knotweed grass, kidney tea, meadowsweet flowers, chamomile and a series of;
- fireweed grass, alder cones, marshmallow root, celandine, peppermint grass, coriander fruits, knotweed grass and hairwort grass - all in the same amount.
Preparation: pour the herbal collection with a liter of boiling water and insist for 12 hours in a thermos. Take the broth half an hour before meals. The course of treatment is 120 days, then you can take a two-week break and then continue the procedure.
Children are recommended to use decoctions and infusions in the following amounts (per day): for children up to a year - 0.5 - 1 tea. spoon, for children 3-6 years old - a dessert spoon, from 6 to 10 years old - a tablespoon, and for people over 10 years of age - 2 tablespoons of herbal.
Treatment of hydronephrosis with herbs can be combined with drugs.