Kidney Stones Treatment Kidney stones are treated based on their size, location and what type they are. Small kidney stones often pass through the urinary tract without any treatment. If a small kidney stone can be passed, it can be caught for a lab test to know it’s type and decide on further preventive treatment. Larger kidney stones or kidney…
Stages of Passing a Kidney Stone A kidney stone can stay inside the kidney for long, before it breaks free and passes down. Stones may pass on their own without any symptoms over a period of few days to few weeks. Red, pink or brown colour to the urine, which is normal may be observed during the…
Pain is the most common symptom of kidney stones and unfortunately, it is not subtle or tolerable pain. The pain that comes with stones migrating from the kidney through the ureters is excruciating. kidney stone pain is often described as flank pain that begins beneath the rib cage and travels down toward the testicles in…
Carbonated drinks and Kidney stones Carbonated drinks such as Coca-cola, Pepsi and their variants have negative effects along with their “refreshingly great taste”. They are linked with diseases like diabetes, hypertension and most importantly causing chronic kidney diseases. Carbonated beverages even if it is regular or sugar-free / diet / 0 calories hurt have negative…
Kidney stones were very rare among children or teens and is now increasingly common. The annual incidence of kidney stones has gone up in the recent years and has almost doubled in children. In contrast to the more common occurrence of kidney stones in men than in women during middle age, teenage girls have a higher rate of kidney stone occurrence than boys of the same age group.
Kidney stone pain can be crippling in nature. But, how to diagnose kidney stones if you suspect one correctly? Well, I have briefly outlined the various symptoms that a kidney stone causes. Severe pain on the sides Kidney stones cause severe pain on the sides or flanks. This pain can radiate downwards into the groin region as…
The incidence of kidney stone disease is also rising world over!. Poor lifestyle habits, improper dietary food patterns combined with obesity are among the top causes of kidney stones. Moreover, the pain of kidney stone is highly intolerable. Patients reel and sometimes they can faint from the pain.
From a clinical perspective, we strongly recommend medical treatment and conservative management for stones that are less than 5 mm in size. Furthermore, for most stone sizes less than 5 mm in size, with a combination of medications and aggressive fluid therapy we can expect the stone to be expelled out of the body roughly in about 4 to 6 weeks.
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