Not many people knows that children are also vulnerable with kind of urinary disease. Unlikely adult people that commonly get troubled by kidney stones, urinary disease that most likely disturb children is Urinary tract infections or UTIs. Its counted worldwide that pediatricians accept over than 1 million patient every year. UTIs could be just a beginning stage, since its also could be a sign or symptom for more serious problem. In this case, Vesicoureteral Reflux or VUR could be the one
VUR can be describe as a pediatric condition which causes flaw backward of urine, from bladder move backward to the kidneys. In normal condition, VUR problem could resolve by the time, but its not guaranteed that, if this condition left untreated, it would not bring more serious condition. In this case, when infected urine moving backward into kidney, it can disturb the kidney with infection. For time to time, this lefted condition will rise to scarring and lead kidney function to poor condition.
There are 2 treatment options for treating this problem. It is long-term preventative antibiotics and endoscopic injection with DEFLUX(r) (watch the video here), which is long-term preventative antibiotics is a most common method that use majority. However the effectiveness of this method in lowering VUR, which is related to UTI’s, is increase 2 times better than long-term preventative antibiotic according to the new study from American Academy of Pediatrics. Infact FDA only give their approvall to this method for VUR treatment, which safer, convenient and more effective than using antibiotics.
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