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Urotherapy for Tear Production With Painless Urination
- Source :
- Urology. 85:667-670
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- We report a rare case of a 4-year-old girl with involuntary watering of eyes and facial redness during painless voiding since early infancy. Here, we describe her response to urotherapy with improvement of involuntary tearing during micturition, which although neither life threatening nor debilitating, may be quite bothersome for children and their parents, leading to anxiety, emotional burden, or embarrassment. We hypothesize that the lacrimal glands and the bladder and bowel have common central nervous system pathways and that bladder retraining and bowel management might be a potential treatment for this rare condition.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases
business.industry
Urology
media_common.quotation_subject
Urination
Embarrassment
Bowel management
Tear production
Surgery
Facial redness
Child, Preschool
Tears
Flushing
Humans
Medicine
Anxiety
Female
Bladder retraining
medicine.symptom
business
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00904295
- Volume :
- 85
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b2147f801b5847091c1aeaf2daaae33c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2014.11.023