How Is Kidney Stone Treated

Kidney Stone is a common kidney problem in our daily life and is clinically divided into four types. Different kind of kidney stone has different causes and obviously, has different treatment. Kidney stone causes sufferings and kidney damages when it becomes very larges, so an effective medical treatment is very essential for kidney stone patients.

The following is the introduction about how kidney stone is treated. Hope it is helpful for you.

1. For small kidney stones

Small kidney stones won't require invasive treatment and what you need to do is just to drink plenty of fluid-mostly water-to produce clear or nearly clear urine. These water will help your body pass stones easily. Also, if you have unbearable kidney stone pain, you can take some pain-killers such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or naproxen sodium.

2. For large kidney stones

For big kidney stones, they can not be treated with conservative measures-either because they are too large to pass on their own or because they cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections. For these large kidney stones, the followings several treatments can be adopted.

1. Using sound waves to break up stones.

2. Surgery to remove very large stones in the kidney.

3. Using a scope to remove stones.

4. Parathyroid gland surgery and this surgery is commonly used when kidney stone occurs because of overactive parathyroid glands.

All these treatments are helpful in removing kidney stones. However, in some cases, like cystine stones, kidney stones appear because of abnormal renal tubule and they can be formed over night. Under such a condition, simply passing kidney stone is not enough. We also need to treat renal tubules so as to prevent the occurrence of kidney stones.

Surgery is an effective treatment to deal with existent kidney stones, but for cystine stones, Chinese medicine is more suitable, as it shows great medical treatment effects not only in helping pass kidney stone, but also in preventing the formation of kidney stone.

The above is the introduction about treatments for kidney stone. If you have anything unclear about how to deal with kidney stone, or want to know more information, welcome to leave message to us.