Ureteral calculi care routine

If after surgery, nursing measures include: eating within 24 hours after surgery, and not giving food for the time being. This is because eating in a state where the patient is not fully awake after anesthesia after surgery can cause nausea, vomiting, choking or aspiration. For patients with ureteral stones, there is no special nursing routine before surgery. As long as the patient does not have an acute renal colic attack, oral analgesics are not required for the time being. The patient only needs to drink more water, urinate frequently, exercise more, and exercise more. The nursing routine only needs to be routine education. In terms of diet, you should eat more foods rich in vitamin A and fiber, and avoid foods with high calcium oxalate content, such as beans, spinach, milk, coffee, etc. The daily water intake should be as high as two liters to promote urine excretion.

What painkillers are used for ureteral stones?

After the pain of ureteral stones is relieved, you need to do a B-ultrasound examination to understand the specific situation of the stones. If the stones are relatively small, you can drink more water and exercise to promote the excretion of stones. If the stones are relatively large, you need to use laser extracorporeal lithotripsy or ureteroscopic lithotripsy. Ureteral stones are relatively common in urology. When patients experience pain, they can use pethidine or atropine and other drugs for pain relief, and the pain relief effect is quite good. For the pain relief drugs for ureteral stones, it should be a combination of antispasmodics and analgesics.

Why do kidney stones get lodged in the ureter?

Once a 0mm kidney stone is found, it is recommended to use laser surgery to break up the stone, reduce its size and expel it from the body to prevent other serious complications. And because the stone causes obstruction in the ureter, it can lead to obstruction of urine discharge from the kidney, forming hydronephrosis or perirenal fluid accumulation, causing infection. Long-term hydronephrosis can affect kidney function. The reason why kidney stones can fall into the ureter is mainly due to the flushing effect of urine flow and the effect of gravity.