Blood in urine?? : General Health Forum : Active Low-Carber Forums

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Fri, Sep-10-04, 19:48

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Originally Posted by cats4jan

I don't understand why the medical community is so against low carb dieting. I can understand why they are against the Induction phase of Atkins because that is really restrictive, but an on-going restriction in the number of carbs one eats can only be good for you.

Who needs all that sugar and starch in your diet? If you simply replace some of your high carb foods with lower carb choices, how can that be bad?

Any diet - when done to extreme - is bad for you. But when used with common sense and a real, working knowledge of OWL - how can Atkins be worse than what I was doing - having fast food for nearly every noon meal - eating only high calorie starch for supper - eating cake and pie more often than any normal person does???

However, on another note - I am blaming my hair thinning on l/c.

But then again, I've been trying to keep my carbs at 30 and my calories at 1,200 for the last year. This may be too restrictive to be healthy, but even at this level, I may only lose a couple of pounds a month - and a couple of pounds is a "good" month.

The hair thing is really scaring me, but you would think - if it is being caused by my diet - my body should already be used to this level of eating and not "reacting" to it. I guess the hair loss could be coincidental - I am almost 56 and my family doesn't "keep" their hair. However, the hair thing is too coincidental to dismiss.

It hasn't deterred me, though. I am eating a little more since I decided to stay at this plateau - but I am still drastically restricting my carbs because they are the foods that are highest in calories. Besides, weighing 160 has to be better for my general health than weighing 230 - I know it's better for my mental health.

undefined It is because they can not get there fingers on our money. Also they have been so fed full of crap they believe it just ask the 100 of thousands that know this thing works for the.

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#32 ^

Wed, Sep-22-04, 20:35

msk

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Not sure if this will help or not but here goes...I had frequent bladder infections and in December of 2002 ended up with what I thought was the flu, no real UTI symptoms that started on the 17th...got better then worse with vomiting, fever etc. Then I ended up not being able to keep anything down for 24 hours with a fever of 103 and went to the emergency room. I had a UTI that had inflamed my right kidney. I was in the hospital for around 4 days (over new years). None of my doctors at the time could figure out why I was getting these frequent infections (which by the way are mostly always E Coli for females).

Fortunately I had an appointment with my gyne the following year and after some discussion it was said that women in menepause sometimes get frequent UTI because the vaginal wall is comprimised and that the bladder is right behind it. She put me on a vaginal estrace cream and that along with taking cranberry extract I have not had a UTI in at least 9 months.

Even if you are not in menepause this may be a problem. It seemed that I would always get a UTI when I had intercourse. The female anatomy is made that everything in very close together and bacteria gets up in the vagina and in the uretha easily. She also told me to make sure I am very clean before intercourse, which I also do.

I hope this helps someone. It was kind of comical because before my gyne visit I had 2 visits to a urologist and there is all kinds of stuff about male prostrate all over the walls and tables. Not one thing about women. URG! The urologist should know about this. I even had a scope of my bladder to see if I had any bladder issues...that came out fine.

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Mon, Sep-27-04, 21:09

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Blood in Urine

'Sorry to be adding to this thread so late but I thought that I would add how helpful Chemstrips are in diagnosing some common urinary problems like dark urine, when local visits to an assembly line type doctor do not bring results.

I get kidney stones on a regular basis, although the pain is greatly reduced since going LC and increasing my water intake.
Although I never actually have blood show up visibly in my urine, it does get darker via blood and hemoglobin. Checking with a Urine Chemstrip (5L) from a pharmacy can help by letting you know what your symptoms are since several things are checked which can show bleeding, healing, infection and other factors such as ph, sugar and Keytones.

Often stones are not picked up by Xray or Ultrasound until > 2 mm., but these strips give great early warnings before or after you get the early twinges of pain. Hemoglobin (6th band) goes up, Protein (third band) goes up when healing is taking place (from stone abrasion), and Leukocytes (first band)show up with a urinary infection. In some people, the stones do not precipitate in the kidney and end up as an encrustation along the urinary tract and are extremely hard to trace with most imaging technology.
A good doctor would help in this process, I just think they are getting harder to find. Most Pharmacy's carry the strips in cannisters of 25 or 50 and I consider them a great investment in self reliance concerning your own body.

I am not a medical doctor, and this is just an opinion I have picked up over the years but I firmly believe that You should always be your first line of defence where your health is concerned.

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Thu, Oct-07-04, 13:32

honeydust

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I am a dialysis tech, and I can tell you from experience the Renal diet is much like Atkins. So this kidney damage crap is just that...Crap! It normally takes a bacterial infection a couple weeks to get to the point that you see symptoms. So basically she had this long before the lcarbing. Also its sounds like her doctor is a quack. My doctor done blood work on me, told me everything seemed to be great, my cholesterol had improved by 80 points, lost 50 pounds and she said that the low carb seemed to be working for me and that I should stick with it. Tell your friend that it is a good idea to drink the water as directed.