Kidney stones or kidney stones represent a more than painful experience for those who suffer from them. Now, a new study carried out by scientists at the Clinic of Ankara Training and Research Hospital in Ankara (Turkey) has discovered a very effective and pleasant way to avoid them: having sex at least three or four times a week .
To reach this conclusion, the researchers involved 75 adults with kidney stones , who were divided into three groups: the first was asked to have sex 3-4 times a week ; The second was given tamsulosin, a drug prescribed to treat the symptoms of an enlarged prostate in men to help them urinate; the third group was simply given the standard treatment for kidney stones.
After two weeks, 26 of the 31 participants in the first group had eliminated their kidney stones via the urinary tract ; of the second group, 10 of the 21 participants achieved this goal; and finally, in the third group, only 8 of the 23 participants successfully overcame their kidney stones. The average stone ejected by the participants measured 4.7 millimeters.
Kidney stones bring more than a million Americans a year to the emergency room because they are so painful. The news about small kidney stones is not positive, but tamsulosin seems to offer benefits to those unfortunate people whose kidney stones are very large, ”explains Jeremy Furyk, leader of a previous study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine .
For the smallest stones, it is clear that having sex on a regular basis is once again a more than successful option to be healthy.
The study has been published in the journal Urology .
