What are Renal Stones (Kidney Stones, Renal Calculi)?
The kidneys are the master chemists of your body, primarily responsible for filtering metabolites and minerals from the blood circulation. These secretions are then passed to the bladder and then out of the body as urine through the urethra. The urine has all the ingredients that form the stone, but all these ideally pass through without our knowledge. When there is an imbalance in any of these substances, the crystals cluster together into stones. In medical terminology these deposits are known as Renal Calculi. Kidney stones are clumps developed from solidified crystals in the kidney or urinary tract. The size of stone can be as small as a grain of sand to one as large as the size of a golf ball. Kidney stones are the commonest complaint and one of the most painful of the urological disorders. Kidney stones may modify the victim’s behaviour with great fear of intense pain and threaten with failure of the kidney. One in every twenty people develops a kidney stone at some point in thei
