What is kidney stone. Please guide me with the procedure involved in treatment of kidney stone.?
The previous answer is not entirely true. Stones can be made of calcium or uric acid. The mainstay of treatment is drinking fluids (not necessarily ALL water but not all the SAME thing either) – up to 2 liters per day when you have a stone that needs to pass and 100 ounces per day if you have had a stone before to try to keep from getting another stone. Calcium stones can be treated with sound waves sent through water (ESWL – extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy – done from the outside of the body), laser lithotripsy (sometimes called Lithoclast – done through a tiny fiber optic instrument inside the body), or with stone removal (ureteroscopy – going up the ureter/”tube” with a tiny instrument and a stone basket to extract the stone) sometimes followed by stent (a tube to keep the ureter open when there is inflammation and is removed days or weeks later). Sometimes, when the stones are very, very large, they will have to open the kidney itself to take them out, or even remove the kidn
