Saturday, May 7, 2011

Getting The Right Kidney Stones Treatment

By Travis Balasko


Due to the various foods and beverages that have come to inception over the years, you can never be sure what you are actually ingesting. Some substances in the food and beverages that you consume are proven to be harmful and dangerous to your health. Sometimes you have no way of finding out what the stuff you're eating really contains. If you tend to eat out or consume pre-packaged food, this holds true for you in particular. For this reason, many people suffer from diseases without suspecting that they do. Kidney stones is one of the most common problems many people suffer. As common as it might be, there are various forms of kidney stones treatment that patients could opt for to get the stones out of their body.

Found in one or both of the kidneys, kidney stone are hard stone like formations. Kidney stones may not affect a person or be bothersome unless they exit the kidneys. Once the tube leaves the kidneys and enters the bladder through the ureter, the pain is gone. Larger kidney stones will cause more pain, but even small ones can cause great discomfort. This happens because the kidney stones get in the way of the flow of urine, it can get so bad that bleeding starts to occur.

Kidney stones are unusual. In some cases, they are so small that the body can pass them in urine without the patient noticing. The pain can be caused by larger stones becoming lodged in the ureter. Once this occurs, the treatment for kidney stones need to have been completed.

There are three types of kidney stones treatment: home, medical, and surgical. A particular kidney stone treatment will be utilized depending on the condition of your excretory system and the state of the kidney stones.

This particular home treatment requires herbs and supplements that have been shown to eliminate kidney stones and alleviate any pain they may create. Rajmah or French bean decoction, Basil, and Pomegranate are the common home remedies used in treating kidney stones.

If you really think about it you will see that prescription medications can also be called home based treatments. An example is the alpha blockers which provide ease in kidney stone passage. It helps the kidneys relax, thus decreasing kidney muscle tension which makes for easier elimination of the stones. The stones can be dissolved, disintegrated and flushed away from the system in part by other natural products and supplements.

Kidney stones are only surgically removed when they are exceptionally large and have failed to dissolve with regular remedies. Surgically, there are three ways to take care of kidney stones. Sound waves breaking stones is called Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy or ESWL. Another procedure that breaks kidney stones is Percutaneous Nephrolithotrypsy or PCNL. PCNL is used if ESWL is not successful. You must undergo Open Surgery before EWSL and PCNL.




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