Sunday, March 9, 2008
BPH patients how to care?
BPH also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy, is common in elderly men of a disease. Men over the age of 40, there are different degrees of prostate proliferation, but symptoms often arise after the age of 50. Urine and frequent nighttime urinary frequency is often the first symptom to appear, voiding difficulties is the most prominent symptom, excessive expansion of the bladder, causing involuntary urine from the urethra overflow, as filling incontinence. Sometimes patients with acute urinary retention is the first symptom, often drinking, fever, catch cold, hard, diarrhea, constipation, holding back a long time, and other causes. Late patients, there will be hydronephrosis and renal insufficiency. Conservative treatment in mild obstructive and not systemic tolerance of surgical treatment of patients. Patients should alcohol, eat stimulate food, avoid holding back, catch cold and flu prevention, control of life, maintaining patency stool, avoid constipation and diarrhea, acute urinary retention avoid. Uroschesis patients to be given intermittent catheterization or sustained, sustained catheterization patients should be given daily disinfection with Bromogeramine tincture meatus, The following day, the replacement of drainage bag, drainage bag below the urethra plane to prevent urinary reflux. Surgery is the main treatment modality. To quit smoking before the surgery to avoid after coughing to prevent postoperative pneumonia and atelectasis. Avoid constipation, shuns alcohol, in order to avoid induced acute urinary retention. Postoperative care is the key to prevent postoperative bleeding. Be closely watched hematuria turned clear, ensure catheter patency, if small clots should promptly wash. Constipation habits often elderly, bedridden after, weakened peristalsis easier caused constipation, Exertion defecation is induced postoperative hemorrhage important, therefore, to encourage patients to get out of bed, stool maintain patency, necessary enema.
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