What are the symptoms of Kidney Stones?

The problem of kidney stone may develop in one or both the kidneys. This is a quite common health issue, it happen around 3 in 20 men and 2 in 20 women. Kidney stone develops mostly in people who fall under the age group of 30 to 60 years. It causes extreme pain in the affected area. Sometimes people may not recognize kidney stone until it reaches at maximum level. However if you are aware about the symptoms of kidney stones, you can go to a doctor to start necessary treatment.

What are the symptoms of Kidney Stones?

Very small kidney stones usually does not cause much pain and pass out painlessly while urination. Even this type of small stones may not get detected. The symptoms of kidney stones mainly occurs if the following things happens to you-

· The kidney stone may get stuck to the kidney.

· Slowly it starts traveling towards the ureter (the narrow tube attached to each kidney and the

bladder). The stone causes extreme pain when it tries to pass through the ureter as it is too narrow.

· In some cases, the kidney stones may cause infections.

In the above mentioned cases, the symptoms of kidney stones are-

· You may have a persistent pain in your lower back, it may also occur in the groin. In case of men, they may feel the ache in their testicles & scrotum.

· You may have periods of extreme ache in your back or side of the abdomen or sometimes in the groin. This pain may lasts for few minutes or for hours. 

· You will feel restless and will not be able to lie down or feel stable.

· When the pain starts, you will feel nausea. You will feel like you are sick.

· You need to urinate quite frequently than the normal period of urination.

· You will feel pain while urinating. 

· In some cases you may get blood in urine. This may happen because of the stone scratching the kidney or ureter.

The kidney stone which blocks the ureter may cause kidney infection. The infection may be caused because the waste products do not pass through due to blockage. The symptoms of kidney infection are same as kidney stones. Some of the other symptoms of kidney infections are-

· You may get high fever (100.4F or more).

· You may feel cold and shivering.

· You will feel too weak & tired

· In some cases, you may get the problem of diarrhoea.

· You may feel bad-smell in your urine.

What causes Cancer?

The cancers do not caused by an individual reason. There are various factors that affect the cells to damage or make them divide rapidly and increase the chance of becoming abnormal. One cannot restrict the causes of cancer because there are various factors that can cause cancer to our body. Let’s get more detail on the causes of cancer.

Cell mutation can be a cause of cancer

Generally when the cells in our body divides, the new cells are the same copies of the old cells. Sometimes it may happen in worst scenarios that the new sells are showing little different characters from the old cell. This happens when the process of cell dividing goes wrong and new cells shows different characters from old cell.

This kind of change happens in DNA inside the cell and this is termed as mutation. While most of the cells with mutation will die or not cause any problem, a very few will go on to resulting cancer. 

What causes cell mutation?

The more frequently cell divides, the greater will be the chances of happening mutation. Most of the mutations are impromptu, with no actual reason for the change. However the factors that results mutations are-

· Breakdown of cell DNA

ü Radiation including UV radiation from the Sun

ü Chemicals present in tobacco smoke

ü Substances generate by the body termed as Oxygen Species

· Frequent division of cells

ü Getting older that enhances the No. of times the cell has undergone division

ü The female hormones oestrogen that stimulates few cells in the breast or womb to divide

· Abnormal cells not dying

ü The HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) can help the abnormal cells in few areas of our body to continue live & undergo division.

What includes risk factors in cancer?

The risk factors are the conditions that enhance the chances of getting cancer. Some kind of risk factors cannot be changed (such as the person’s age or family background) and some can be changed (such as the lifestyle risk factors of a person). The risk factors for cancer includes-

· There are many cancers that are more common in old age people.

· Sometimes if a family has faulty genes, it can be passed from generation to generation. It increases the chances of causing cancer.

· Some cancers can be caused from the chemicals in tobacco smoke such as lung cancer.

· Addiction to alcohol can also cause severe cancers.

· Some viruses & other organisms- HPV results most cases of cervical cancer.

· The obesity can also be a reason to certain cancers.

· Unhealthy diet & lack of physical activities enhances the risk factors of some cancers.