Blood In The Pee
Today somebody told me he found some blood stain over his pee, and asked me what should he do?
In an instant, my mind pop up a “doctor” word, so I burped it out. He asked me again, I told him again to see a doctor. He asked me again, I told him yet again to seek a doctor’s help.
He wasn’t happy about my answer, and I couldn’t give more because I really don’t know. I know such symptom could come from many types of disease and without a proper check up it would be irresponsible to make conclusion, let alone I am not a doctor. So I checked it out online:
“Blood in the urine is a common problem. The medical term for red blood cells in the urine is hematuria. Sometimes blood in the urine is a sign of a serious problem in the urinary tract, while other times it is not serious and requires no treatment. Only after a thorough evaluation by a healthcare provider should blood in the urine be attributed to a non-serious cause.”
Causes of Blood in Urine
Hematuria has many different causes.
Blood in the urine can come from any condition that results in infection, inflammation, or injury to the urinary system.
Typically, microscopic hematuria indicates damage to the upper urinary tract (kidneys), while visible blood indicates damage to the lower tract (ureters, bladder, or urethra). But this is not always the case.
The most common causes in people younger than 40 years of age are kidney stones or urinary tract infections.
Some causes of hematuria are serious, others are not. Your healthcare provider will perform tests to help tell the difference.
The well-known causes of blood in the urine include the following:
-Kidney stones
-Infections of the urinary tract or genitals
-Blockage of the urinary tract, usually the urethra - by a stone, a tumor, a narrowing of the opening (stricture), or a compression from surrounding structures
-Cancer of the kidney, bladder, or prostate
-Kidney disease
-Blood clotting disorders
-Injury to the upper or lower urinary tract, as in a car accident or a bad fall
-Medications - Antibiotics [for example, rifampin (Rifadin)], analgesics such as aspirin, anticoagulants [blood thinners such as warfarin, (Coumadin)], phenytoin (Dilantin), quinine (Quinerva, Quinite, QM-260)
-Benign (noncancerous) enlargement of the prostate - known as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), a common condition in older men
-Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and sickle cell anemia
-Viral infections
-Inflammation of the kidney - usually of unknown cause
-Strenuous exercise, especially running - results from repeated jarring of the bladder
Sometimes no cause is found for blood in the urine.
The hematuria will probably go away by itself or continue as a chronic condition without doing harm. Any changes should immediately trigger a return visit and evaluation by your healthcare provider.
So I have learned something today, I hope somebody does too.