What does it mean when your urinating blood?!
Question: What does it mean when you have large amounts of blood in your urine? My grandfather is 72 and since last april he has had blood in his urine but never told ne one and just in the last week he has nothing but blood when he urinates and i'm trying to find out what could be causing this or what oculd happen from too much blood lose. He is at the er now but i am just curious!
Answers: What does it mean when you have large amounts of blood in your urine? My grandfather is 72 and since last april he has had blood in his urine but never told ne one and just in the last week he has nothing but blood when he urinates and i'm trying to find out what could be causing this or what oculd happen from too much blood lose. He is at the er now but i am just curious!
Causes of Blood in Urine
Hematuria has many different causes.
Blood in the urine can come from any condition that results in infection, inflammation, or injury to the urinary system.
Typically, microscopic hematuria indicates damage to the upper urinary tract (kidneys), while visible blood indicates damage to the lower tract (ureters, bladder, or urethra). But this is not always the case.
The most common causes in people younger than 40 years of age are kidney stones or urinary tract infections.
These may also cause hematuria in older people, but cancers of the kidney, bladder, and prostate become a more common concern in people older than 40 years of age.
Several conditions causing hematuria may exist at the same time.
Some causes of hematuria are serious, others are not. Your healthcare provider will perform tests to help tell the difference.
The well-known causes of blood in the urine include the following:
Kidney stones
Infections of the urinary tract or genitals
Blockage of the urinary tract, usually the urethra - by a stone, a tumor, a narrowing of the opening (stricture), or a compression from surrounding structures
Cancer of the kidney, bladder, or prostate
Kidney disease
Blood clotting disorders
Injury to the upper or lower urinary tract, as in a car accident or a bad fall
Medications - Antibiotics [for example, rifampin (Rifadin)], analgesics such as aspirin, anticoagulants [blood thinners such as warfarin, (Coumadin)], phenytoin (Dilantin), quinine (Quinerva, Quinite, QM-260)
Benign (noncancerous) enlargement of the prostate - known as benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), a common condition in older men
Chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and sickle cell anemia
Viral infections
Inflammation of the kidney - usually of unknown cause
Strenuous exercise, especially running - results from repeated jarring of the bladder
Sometimes no cause is found for blood in the urine.
If serious conditions such as cancer, kidney disease, and other chronic diseases that cause kidney damage or bleeding are ruled out, the cause is usually not serious.
Kidney infection
It is way past time to see a Dr. That is a very serious symptom. He shouldn't have waited. Now it could be a matter of life and death.
an infection.....or uti...but it is SERIOUS. I'm a medical assistant take him to the doc asap
It could be a urinary tract infection or something could be wrong with his prostate. He is in the er and they will do testing and find out what it is and then the doctors will treat him with medication.
Bladder cancer. Possibly prostate as well.
Exactly my own experience.
See a Urologist ASAP.
Dianna, he needs to see a doctor NOW. If you love your grandfather you must get him to have a medical examination even if he is not keen on the idea. There are a number of things that can cause this, the least of which is a bad urinary tract infection that can harm the Kidneys, and the worst of which is some form of bladder/prostate Cancer.
Blood loss is bad but that is just the symptom, something has gone wrong further up. The time for curiosity has now passed, I beg you, get on the phone and arrange to see a doctor. If I sound worried it's because I am, I lost both my own grandfather and a friend to Cancer, both would have had a chance if there had been a prompt diagnosis.
Time to see a doctor there could be some type of infection going on
Curtdude
all of that is wrong he has hemophila ... go to doctor he will say the exact same thing ........ it treatable
infection. go see the doctor
problems with the kidneys ?
IT MEANS GET YOUR A>>>>>>>> TO THE DOCTOR