Your Kidney Stone"s Best Overall Treatment
Some kidney stones are more common than others, it is important to know exactly what you have because the treatment can be significantly different.
So before you go skipping ahead to learn about treatment options, find out how they form, how they are tested for and which ones you are most likely to have.
You will also find out that the best way to do this is to have your physician evaluate all these factors.
In some cases, if the kidney stones that you have passed are available, it is reasonable to analyze them in a lab.
If you have passed a kidney stone, isn't it over? Unfortunately, the answer is NO.
Most people will have a recurrence.
Because of this, it is important to know what you have to do to prevent it from happening again.
Kidney stones, also known as renal calculi, nephrocalcinosis or nephrolithiasis, are crystal-like substances or stones found inside the kidneys or urinary tract.
The kidney secretes them from various waste products and/or minerals in your urine.
The key to treatment is to learn what kind of minerals are over-accumulating and what processes are not working properly in you.
Kidney stones have different compositions.
The most common type is made up of calcium mixed with oxalate or phosphate called calcium stones.
The other, not so common stones, are made of cystine, uric acid, and struvite or carbonate-apatite.
Hypercalciuria or too much calcium in the urine is the main problem.
Calcium solidifies into crystals and forms stones when there is too much of it in the urine.
Oxalate-rich foods, when consumed in excess, may increase the risk of calcium oxalate monohydrate stones.
These include soybean seeds, spinach, nuts, cocoa, rhubarb, chard, beet tips, green tea and chocolate.
However, here is a lot of variability from individual to individual as far as how much is absorbed.
In most cases, oxalates in moderation likely decrease the risk of stones.
Vitamin C is an oxalate precursor and oxalate levels in the urine increases in both stone forming and non-stone forming people.
When you are passing a stone, you may feel better being upright or curled up like a ball in fetal position, or moving around.
Generally, changing positions may help somewhat in terms of gravity and assisting your body in eliminating the stones.
How much this may help is totally speculative.
No one knows for sure.
However, based on how the body passes stones, jumping up and down will not add much.
The stones are simply not heavy enough to somehow be jarred loose within the ureter in order to pass faster.
You MAY jar some additional stones loose from your kidney's collecting system, which will then fall into the ureteral area, guaranteeing yourself MORE pain as more stones try to pass.
Get checked out by your doctor first with an ultrasound before your attempts to help yourself do more harm than good.
It may be a better idea to dissolve or disrupt larger stones into smaller stones, using techniques prescribed by your doctor before trying to pass them.
Treatment options include the best of mainstream and complementary alternatives or what we call integrative therapies.
So before you go skipping ahead to learn about treatment options, find out how they form, how they are tested for and which ones you are most likely to have.
You will also find out that the best way to do this is to have your physician evaluate all these factors.
In some cases, if the kidney stones that you have passed are available, it is reasonable to analyze them in a lab.
If you have passed a kidney stone, isn't it over? Unfortunately, the answer is NO.
Most people will have a recurrence.
Because of this, it is important to know what you have to do to prevent it from happening again.
Kidney stones, also known as renal calculi, nephrocalcinosis or nephrolithiasis, are crystal-like substances or stones found inside the kidneys or urinary tract.
The kidney secretes them from various waste products and/or minerals in your urine.
The key to treatment is to learn what kind of minerals are over-accumulating and what processes are not working properly in you.
Kidney stones have different compositions.
The most common type is made up of calcium mixed with oxalate or phosphate called calcium stones.
The other, not so common stones, are made of cystine, uric acid, and struvite or carbonate-apatite.
Hypercalciuria or too much calcium in the urine is the main problem.
Calcium solidifies into crystals and forms stones when there is too much of it in the urine.
Oxalate-rich foods, when consumed in excess, may increase the risk of calcium oxalate monohydrate stones.
These include soybean seeds, spinach, nuts, cocoa, rhubarb, chard, beet tips, green tea and chocolate.
However, here is a lot of variability from individual to individual as far as how much is absorbed.
In most cases, oxalates in moderation likely decrease the risk of stones.
Vitamin C is an oxalate precursor and oxalate levels in the urine increases in both stone forming and non-stone forming people.
When you are passing a stone, you may feel better being upright or curled up like a ball in fetal position, or moving around.
Generally, changing positions may help somewhat in terms of gravity and assisting your body in eliminating the stones.
How much this may help is totally speculative.
No one knows for sure.
However, based on how the body passes stones, jumping up and down will not add much.
The stones are simply not heavy enough to somehow be jarred loose within the ureter in order to pass faster.
You MAY jar some additional stones loose from your kidney's collecting system, which will then fall into the ureteral area, guaranteeing yourself MORE pain as more stones try to pass.
Get checked out by your doctor first with an ultrasound before your attempts to help yourself do more harm than good.
It may be a better idea to dissolve or disrupt larger stones into smaller stones, using techniques prescribed by your doctor before trying to pass them.
Treatment options include the best of mainstream and complementary alternatives or what we call integrative therapies.
