The Truth About Treatment of Kidney Stones and Surgery
Kidney stones cause some of the most horrendous pain known to man. Whether you are suffering now from kidney stones or searching for information on preventing a reoccurrence. There are different forms of treatment available.
The first therapy you can follow immediately on your own is to monitor the types of food you ingest and the quantity or lack of exercise you practice. The intake of foods that contain oxalates such as almonds, cashews, berries, black tea, soybeans should be reduced to a minimum.
Conversely, try to eat foods with normal calcium content. Even thought popular belief, based on traditional judgment had recommended to eliminate calcium from their diet, recent research has proven this was highly incorrect and normal calcium dietary consumption, along with reduced salt and protein is now suggested.
Another home-type treatment you can adopt is to drink more fluids, like tap or bottled water in a moderately increasing fashion. Water will help the smaller stones travel out of your body when you urinate. It is not recommended to make a sudden increase in consumption. Consult your physician before radically making any modifications to your diet. In any event, it is always preferable to drink water, fruit juices and lemonade rather than tea, beer or alcoholic beverages when you are thirsty.
Water has no effect on infections. While intakes of larger quantities of liquids will help small stones travel through the urinary tract and be eliminated out of the body, prescription drugs are required to cure the infection, should it be present. However, 80% of kidney stones sufferers do not carry infections and water should suffice to pass the smallest stones.
Studies show that for 3 out of 10 patients who were lacking Oxalobacter formigenes, natural bacterium in our body suffered more from the formation of kidney stones. This natural bacterium resides in our intestinal tract and combined with antibiotics will prevent the presence of infections in this area that could potentially reactivate the buildup of kidney stones. When stones reach medium size, the pain caused by the blockage of the urinary tract becomes unbearable and water has no effect until they are dissolved.
As the kidney stones get larger, medical action becomes mandatory. One of these procedures is sitting the patient in a tub of water and passing shock waves through it using a lithotripter. The stones are reduced to stone fragments that can then be expelled through urination.
Lastly, physicians resort to surgery using various procedures where small incisions are made and the surgeon crushes the stones with a specialized scope, or laser therapy. Hopefully, painful kidney stones will soon be a disease of the past. Scientists are busy studying the science of oxalate removal to help develop improved treatments to prevent and possibly reverse the formation of kidney stones in humans.
