Irritations in this organ are usually the result of excessive acidity accumulating as a result of eating
foods leaving acid end-products insufficiently
digested or dissolved—uric acid crystals, for
example, from eating meat, and oxalic acid crystals
from using cooked spinach or rhubarb. Allowing
these crystals to accumulate, and persisting in eating
such foods, may cause growths to form. The removal
of these growths by burning, cutting. X-ray, radium
and drugs does not remove the cause. On the
contrary, the eventual return of even more serious
conditions is likely to follow. Excessive use of
concentrated starches is also a contributory cause.
Inflammation of the bladder may interfere with the
normal flow of urine, causing damage to the walls
of the bladder. Cystitis is the name given to this
condition.
Bladder stones may either form within the
bladder or may have been passed from the kidneys.
See Kidney Stones. Much bladder trouble in men is
due also to trouble with the prostate gland.
