What causes Kidney stones and what can be used to treat them?

Question

Patient is 72 year-old woman.

Answer 1

Excess activity of the parathyroid gland promotes formation of kidney stones. Other causes may be Paget's disease, bone cancers and metabolic disturbance through increased activity of the thyroid gland.

Dairy calcium is known to predispose one to kidney stone. Magnesium has been credited with resolving the problem. Cherokee Indians used Hydrangea root for this condition. Other herbs shown to be helpful are Cornsilk (to increase urine production) Marshmallow (a soothing demulcent) and Horsetail Grass (for bleeding). Gravel Root tea can sometimes help the stone to pass.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Doctors can "crush" kidney stones if needed. They can also do a pain free and still extremely expensive procedure called Lithotripsy.Lithotripsy is extremely cool because it sends ultrasonic waves through your kidney and actually breaks the stones into little bits that you will pass in the next day or so.

However, you may have to go back and have it done more than once, and it wont work on all stones. They can also do a Ureteroscopic Stone Removal. This is the one where they actually stick a tube up you and extract the stone that way. I hope this information works for you.

-Brad M.

Answer 4

I am 29 years old and plagued with kidney stones. My doctor told me that the cause of the stones vary from person to person. They can be genetic or they can be cause from diet. The stones once passed can be tested to see if it is just your body or your diet. Either way changing your diet helps significantly. Drink plenty of water and stay away from caffeine are the two most important changes in diet that you should make. Talk to your doctor, see about seeing a eurologist, and look up kidney health on this web. These things should help.

Answer 5

Kidney stones are solid mineral deposits that accumulate in the urinary tract. According to the National Institutes of Health, ten percent of Americans experience kidney stones during their lifetime. Seven to ten hospital admissions out of every thousand are related to kidney stone symptoms. Lazar treatments can burst the stones to let them be able to exit through the urinary tract.

But go to a Doctor before you do anything, or take anyone's advice here not even my own and I work in a hospital with doctors.

Answer 6

kidney stones are when nephrons(in kidneys) clean the blood and minerals stick to the sides (kinda) and the stone part is when some of the hard minerals break off and get stuck in the ureter tubes

Lemonade and citric acid juices help break down stones before they form.

Answer 7

Kidney stones, also known as nephrolithiasis, urolithiasis or renal calculi, are solid concretions (crystal aggregations) of dissolved minerals in urine found inside the kidneys or ureters. They vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a grapefruit. Kidney stones typically leave the body in the urine stream; if they grow relatively large before passing (on the order of at least 2-3 millimeters), obstruction of a ureter and distention with urine can cause severe pain most commonly felt in the flank, lower abdomen and groin. Such pain, called renal colic, often comes in waves and can be particularly severe. Nausea is associated with this particular pain primarily due to the embyrological association of the kidneys and the intestinal tract. Recurrence rates are estimated at about 10% per year. Kidney stones are totally unrelated to gallstones.

90% of stones 4 mm or less in size usually will pass spontaneously, however the majority of stones greater than 6 mm will require some form of intervention. In mose cases, a smaller stone that is not symptommatic is often given up to 30 days to move or pass before consideration is given to any surgical intervention as it's been found that waiting longer tends to lead to additional complications. Immediate surgery may be required in certain situations such as in people with only one working kidney, intractable pain or in the presence of an infected kidney blocked by a stone which can rapidly cause severe sepsis and toxic shock.

Management of pain from kidney stones varies from country to country and even from physician to physician, but may require intravenous medication (eg, narcotic or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories) in acute situations. Similar classes of drugs may be effectve orally in an outpatient setting for less severe discomfort. Intravenous ketorolac (Toradol) has been found to be quite effective in many cases of acute renal colic to control the pain without the need for narcotic medications. Ketorolac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory that is related to aspirin and ibuprofen. Most acute kidney stone pain will last less than 24 hours and not require hospitalization. Patients are encouraged to strain their urine so they can collect the stone when it eventually passes and send it for chemical composition analysis.

In many cases non-invasive Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy or (ESWL) may be used. Otherwise some form of invasive procedure is required; with approaches including ureteroscopic fragmentation (or simple basket extraction if feasible) using laser, ultrasonic or mechanical (pneumatic, shock-wave) forms of energy to fragment the stones. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy or open surgery may ultimately be necessary for large or complicated stones or stones which fail other less invasive attempts at treatment.

Answer 8

The Homeopathic list that I am on say that Hydrangea Tincture will dissolve stones fast. Haven't needed to use this yet, so you might want to research this for yourself.

Answer 9

dark colored drinks like colas and tea. drink water.