Scientists claim to have discovered a novel way to treat kidney stones – by advising patients to have regular sex. They say that men who have intercourse three to four times a week are more likely to ‘pass’ a kidney stone than those who didn’t, according to the Daily Mail.
The team of doctors, from the Urology Department of Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Turkey, studied over 75 participants, who were randomly split into three groups. They gave instructions to the fist group to have sex three to four times per week, prescribed a medicinal drug to the second group and give the third group the standard medical treatment for kidney stones.
They discovered two weeks later that 26 of the 31 men who’d had regular sex were able to pass their kidney stones easily. On the other hand, only half of the participants from the the tamsulosin group and eight of the 23 men from the standard medical treatment group were able to successfully pass their stones. Their findings were published in the medical journal Urology.
