What is kidney stones?

Kidney stones are a disease of the urinary system. They are mainly caused by stones growing in the kidneys. Sometimes, there will be symptoms of pain, nausea, and soreness in the waist. If the stones are too large, urinary pain and hematuria may also occur. Therefore, if stones occur, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time. If the stones are small, you can effectively expel the stones by drinking more water and taking stone-removing particles orally. If the stones are large, extracorporeal lithotripsy is required. After the large stones are broken, the stones can be expelled by taking oral medication.

What to do if you have stomach pain due to kidney stones

After the onset of kidney stones, it will cause lower abdominal pain, especially when the kidney stones are stuck in the bladder and ureteral orifices, it will cause severe lower abdominal pain. If the abdominal pain caused by kidney stones is relatively mild, you can take measures such as hot compresses, or take non-steroidal analgesics such as ibuprofen to relieve the pain. However, most kidney stones mainly cause low back pain on the affected side, and some are accompanied by lower abdominal pain. Since the characteristics of visceral system pain are unclear locations and a wide range of pain, this is because the sensory nerves of some visceral organs are interconnected, so clinically, there are often multiple pain points in a visceral organ disease. It is difficult to make a clear diagnosis without the help of imaging examinations.

Can Chinese medicine treat kidney stones?

If you need to use Chinese medicine to treat kidney stones, you first need to use color Doppler ultrasound, CT and other examinations to determine the specific location, size, number and other conditions of the stones before deciding whether it is suitable to use Chinese medicine to remove the stones. If it is a relatively small stone in the kidney, the diameter of the stone is generally less than seven millimeters. In this case, we can use Chinese medicine for stone removal treatment. However, if the stone is relatively large and the diameter exceeds eight millimeters, even if Chinese medicine is used, the effect of stone removal is not good. In this case, it is best to do extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy first, crush the stones, and then use Chinese medicine for stone removal treatment.