Sentences with phrase «own urethra»

Still another mentioned that her doctor gently slightly retracts both of her sons» foreskin to look at the boys» urethra.

The dangers associated with penis sounding are presumably obvious: it simply is not a good idea to stick anything down your urethra.

Bath oils and bubbles can also irritate the delicate skin around the urethra and make it painful to urinate.

They may also be irritating to the urethra, which in turn might increase the risk of urinary tract infections.

Girls are especially prone to urinary tract infections because the female urethra is very short — making it easier for germs to enter the body.

They can contract the bladder wall (which increases pressure inside the bladder) and they can relax the urinary sphincter (which opens the urethra and permits urine to flow outside the body).

Your baby will push down on your pelvic floor muscles, urethra, and bladder which can increase the need to urinate and make leaking more often.

I started to say my urethra, but then that seemed too complicated.

Well, technically, you pee with your urethra, which in women doesn't usually have a sexual function.

And if your child already has a UTI or inflammation around the urethra, a bubble bath is likely to aggravate already sensitive skin.

A catheter is inserted into your urethra to drain urine during the procedure, and an IV is started (for fluids and medications) if you don't have one already.

Your bladder, kidneys, ureters and urethra make up your urinary system.

Some children have what is called a Foley catheter placed in the urethra instead of the stent.

A suprapubic catheter is removed about 1 week after either the Foley catheter or stent has been removed from the urethra.

A quick anatomy reminder here, your clitoris is pearl shaped and can be found above your urethra and vaginal opening, as explained on the Sex Info Online website.

Urethra: A tube - like structure through which urine flows from the bladder to the outside of the body.

The first is an obstruction of the urine flow in the urethra or kidney.

A catheter (tube) is then placed in your urethra to drain your bladder.

Your child will have a plastic tube called a stent in his urethra.

Another study found that male babies born from mothers who drank soy milk while pregnant, had more frequent occurrence of hypospadias (a birth defect where the urethra is positioned on the underside of the penis).

The best way to do this is inserting a catheter in your babyâ $ ™ s urethra and collecting the urine sample.

For a baby girl, wash from front to back to prevent infections, as the urethra in girls is closer to the urinary bladder and prone to infections.

Both have risks and benefits including bleeding, need for transfusion, post procedure fever and infection, need for antibiotics, risk for injury to surrounding organs like bowel, bladder, urethra, vessels, anal sphincter, with need for suturing or need for reoperation.

Pregnancy and delivery stretch the connective tissue at the base of the bladder and can cause nerve and muscle damage to the bladder or urethra.

He'll clean your baby's genitals with a sterile solution and then thread a tube, or catheter, up the urethra to get urine straight from the bladder.

This includes the kidneys, which make urine; the ureters, tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder; the bladder, which stores urine until the body is ready to empty it; and the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body.

Normally your nerves, ligaments, and pelvic floor muscles work together to support your bladder and keep the urethra closed so urine doesn't leak.

Bubble baths and perfumed soaps in general may inflame the genitals especially in young girls, making it easier for bacteria to access the urethra.

Most UTIs happen in the lower part of the urinary tract — the urethra and bladder.

This is when a thin tube is inserted into the urethra up to the bladder to get a «clean» urine sample.

An infection anywhere from the kidneys to the ureters to the bladder to the urethra qualifies as a urinary tract infection.

Surgery uses one of two common operations to insert a sling under the urethra in an effort to keep it supported.

It happens due to weaknesses in the structures supporting the bladder and bladder outlet (urethra), mainly the pelvic floor muscles, which then fail to stop urine leaking out when the bladder is under stress, such as when laughing or sneezing, or because of a weakness in the sphincter muscle which normally holds the urethra closed.

This rare disease leads to short thumbs and big toes and sometimes a urethra shifted to the base of the penis.

When a spinal cord injury takes place, extensions of nerve cells from the brainstem — the region of the brain where the command and coordination for urination takes place — become disconnected from cells in the spinal cord that control the muscles that squeeze or relax the bladder and open and close the urethra.

Vasalgel works by injecting a polymer into the vas deferens — the duct which conveys sperm from the testicle to the urethra — forming a semi-solid plug which blocks viable sperm passing through.

The research at Sheffield, with two separate papers published in PLOS ONE and the Journal of Urology, provides evidence for using a softer and more elastic material to support the urethra.

It can be due to an enlarged prostate known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)-- as the prostate enlarges, it can squeeze down on the urethra.

Hollow tubes — arteries or urethras — will come next, followed by hollow organs, such as bladders.

They are usually caused by Escherichia coli from faeces reaching the urethra, the tube that connects the bladder to the outside of the body.

When urination stops and the force disappears, the protein releases its grip, and the bacteria can advance up to the bladder — a cosy home with a more stable temperature and pH than the urethra — where it causes cystitis.

However, they continue to market the same mesh for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence as they use a strip of it as a tape under the urethra and it remains very beneficial for the majority of patients with a very low complication rate in experienced hands.

The strategically placed microphone records the sound while urinating and the sound frequency correlates with the urethra's narrowing.

Those studies suggested that the region of the prostate nearest the urethra might be rich in stem cells.

«In certain procedures, for example, when the polypropylene mesh is used as a thin strip to support the urethra and reduce the symptoms of stress incontinence, the results show it is beneficial to the patient and carries relatively little risk.

Next up the scale are tubular structures, like blood vessels or the urethra, both of which have been successfully engineered and transplanted.

Once in the vagina or the urethra, the extremely mobile T. vaginalis flattens its otherwise pear - shaped body against the wall and secretes proteins that destroy surrounding cells while consuming surrounding good bacteria to alter the overall acidity of the environment more to its liking.

The implant is comprised of a series of tiny permanent sutures that lift the enlarged prostate open so that it does not interfere with the urethra or bladder anatomy.

Bagla attributes this low rate of side effects to the fact that PAE is conducted via the femoral artery versus other treatments, which enter through the urethra or penis.

Meanwhile, the occurance of undescended testicles and abnormally developed male urethras are also thought to be increasing.