Blood in Urine: You must have heard many people complaining that there is blood in the urine. Let us tell you that blood in the urine is considered a serious condition. There can be many reasons behind this. In such a situation, the patient should immediately consult a doctor and get it treated. Dr. Anoop Gulati of the Urology Department of Fortis Hospital said that usually blood in the urine is called ‘hematuria’.
There can be many reasons for this – a lump in the urinary bladder, kidney cancer, cancer of the urothelial lining of the urine, etc. He said that apart from cancer, blood in the urine can also come due to a long-term infection in the urinary bladder. Usually blood starts coming in the urine due to stones. Sometimes when the stones get scratched, blood starts coming in the urine. Any kind of injury in the urinary tract can also be the reason for this.
Causes of blood in urine:
Dr. Gulati said that the most common reason for blood in urine is urinary infection. This is a serious symptom. The patient should not be careless in this and should immediately contact the doctor because it cannot be treated with normal medicines.
What to do if there is blood in urine?
He said that the patient should go to a urologist and consult, because generally blood does not come in urine due to stones. This happens in cancer also only when the disease progresses. He told that the patient need not panic. There are many patients who consulted a doctor immediately after getting this disease and got completely cured after treatment.
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