If you have or have had a kidney stone, you probably already know how painful it can be. But did you know that there are actually different types of kidney stones? Kidneys are a pair of organs that are responsible for filtering out the waste products and water from our blood. A kidney stone or ...
Getting kidney stones during pregnancy is unfortunately more likely for women than getting them when they’re not pregnant. A variety of changes with vitamins and minerals are happening in the body when you’re pregnant, and these changes can cause the formation of kidney stones. There is also some speculation that later in the pregnancy, the ...
Our kidneys suffer from a disorder known as kidney stones. Hard masses are formed within the kidney or the urinary tract. The stones vary in sizes. Some stones are so tiny that they can’t even be seen by our naked eyes. The slightly bigger stones sometimes are an inch in diameter. The renal pelvis and ...
