what can i do about kidney stones?

Question

hey i have kidney stones. the doctor thinks they are made up of uric acid. I was wondering if there is any alternative treatment to uric acid stones because these ones are too large to pass. thanks

Answer 1

Lithotripsy. Had it twice. It's uncomfortable, but fairly benign treatment.

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Kidney stones can be dangerous, my question is why did she not go to the hospital and have them removed? I got kidney stones last August, and had surgery to have them removed. It won't be fatal, but I don't understand how she could have stood them very long, mine were extremely painful and I was peeing blood...She will definitely recover, but it takes a few days to feel back to normal and she may have to wear a catheter for a few days as well. Best of luck to her.

Answer 5

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kidney stones are no fun. its very painful. if they get too big to pass, they will break them up with ultra sound.

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Answer 7

Try this my dear,

Drink lots of fluids. Regardless of what kind of stone you've had, "by far the single most important preventive measure is to increase water consumption," says Stevan Streem, M.D., head of the Section of Stone Disease and Endourology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. Water dilutes the urine and helps to prevent high concentrations of those salts and minerals that clump together to form stones.

How much fluid should you drink? "Enough to pass 2 quarts of urine a day," says Peter D. Fugelso, M.D., medical director of the Kidney Stone Department at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, California, and a clinical professor of urology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "If you've been working out in the garden all day under the hot sun, that could mean you'll need to drink 2 gallons," he says. "It's the amount of urine that matters." He suggests you urinate several times into an empty milk carton to get a gauge on how much you are passing.

Keep a cap on your calcium. "Of all the stones we see, 92 percent are made of calcium or calcium products," says Dr. Fugelso. If your doctor says your last stone was calcium-based, you should be concerned about your intake of calcium. If you're taking supplements, the first thing to do is check with your doctor to see if they are really necessary. The next thing to do is check the amount of calcium-rich foods—milk, cheese, butter, and other dairy foods—you eat on a daily basis. The idea is to limit—not eliminate—calcium-rich food in your diet. "And almost all of the calcium in your diet comes from dairy products," says Dr. Fugelso.

Check your stomach medicine. Certain popular antacids are enormously high in calcium, warns Dr. Fugelso. If you've had a calcium stone, and if you are taking an antacid, check the ingredients on the side of the box to make sure it's not calcium-based. If it is, choose another brand.

Don't eat too many oxalate-rich foods. About 60 percent of all stones are known as calcium oxalate stones, says Brian L. G. Morgan, Ph.D., a research scientist with the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. If everything in your body were working right, the oxalate you consume when you eat certain fruits and vegetables would be excreted. But if you've had calcium oxalate stones, things obviously aren't working right. So you should restrict your consumption of oxalate-rich foods. These include beans, beets, blueberries, celery, chocolate, grapes, green peppers, parsley, spinach, strawberries, summer squash, and tea.

Try magnesium and B6. Swedish researchers found that a daily supplement of magnesium curtailed stone recurrence by almost 90 percent in a group of patients. Scientists speculate that magnesium works because it—like calcium—can bond with oxalate. But unlike the calcium/oxalate bond, this link-up is less likely to form painful stones. Vitamin B6, meanwhile, may actually lower the amount of oxalate in the urine. In one study, 10 milligrams a day seemed to do the trick.

Answer 8

If its too big, you might need to undergo operation or ESWL. There is also a herb called "sambong" which can be good for getting rid of stones. No approved therapeutic claims, of course.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Low calcium diet. Increase your fluids. They can try radiowave therapy to break up the stones, to make them easier to pass. There are medicines that lower uric acid. Ask doc for options.