Hi, may I answer your health queries?  Please type your query here...My son is 7 and half years, his weight is approx. 28 kgs, and has been diagnosed with horseshoe kidney. I just want to know, what is it exactly, what will be its cause, treatment and what precautions should be taken.
Hi, Thanks for writing in. Horse shoe kidney is a condition by birth and occurs in a ratio of 1 in 500 child Chat Doctor.  Here both the kidneys are joined instead of being two separate entities. In a child without symptoms, treatment may not be necessary. If your child has complications, they may require supportive treatment, which means their symptoms will be treated, but there is no cure for the condition. Should there be mechanical obstruction and vesicoureteral reflux which are very common in these patients, it may require surgical correction.