What are the Symptoms of Kidney Stones?

Kidney Stones can be in the kidneys, urethra, and bladder of a person without showing any symptoms. Most of these are small ones, thus cause no pains and symptoms and eventually are flush out when urinating. Larger ones that may have blocked the kidneys and other body vital functions may cause pain and show symptoms. Symptoms often occur when a stone migrates into the urethra that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder, and prevents the drainage of urine from the kidney. Kidney stones symptoms are as follows:

• severe kidney pain that starts suddenly and last from minutes to hours, followed by long periods of relief. The pain may be on the side of the abdomen or in the middle of the abdomen (if the stone is at the beginning of the ureter). It also may travel into the groin (if the stone is lower in the ureter). In some cases, the pain is severe enough to require medication.

• nausea and vomiting

• burning and the urge to pass urine

• frequent urination

• cloudy or foul-smelling urine

• fever, chills

• blood in the urine, person may be able to see blood in the urine, or it might be detected through a laboratory test. The presence of blood is the result of damage to the lining of the ureter or tissue damage inside the kidney.

• bloating, happens when the person cannot urinate due to the blockage

• pus in the urine, when damage to the urethra happened and gets infected

There are other possible consequences of kidney stones. Partial or complete obstruction of a kidney by a stone may lead to a backup of urine in the blood, along with its potentially toxic component, urea. If this happens, the kidney may suffer damage to its tubules (the microscopic chemical plants that manufacture urine) and to their associated blood vessels.

We advise you to see you Doctor or health care provider immediately.

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