Summer is the peak season in kidney calculi.
Due to the hot weather, the amount of perspiration increases, and water will evaporate through the skin. If you don't replenish water in time, the urine volume will decrease and the kidney urine will be concentrated.
The concentration of crystals in urine increased or the solubility decreased, showing supersaturation. The precipitated crystals are locally precipitated and aggregated, and finally kidney calculi is formed.
In addition, high-intensity ultraviolet rays help to accelerate the synthesis of vitamin D and vitamin A in the body, promote the absorption of calcium ions in the small intestine, and increase the excretion of calcium in urine, thus easily forming stones.
What are the symptoms of kidney calculi?
In daily life, kidney calculi's common symptoms are backache, colic, frequent urination, urgency and hematuria.
Some patients have blocked the ureter because of stones. They may have difficulty urinating, or nausea, vomiting and fever.
Even a few patients with kidney calculi's disease have no symptoms, and the attacks are often very serious.
Kidney calculi's Four Misunderstandings
Myth 1: You can get rid of the stone in one jump.
If the stone is small, it may be excreted through exercise and drinking plenty of water. However, when the stone gets stuck in the ureter and can't get down, strenuous activity will cause pain during the downward movement of the stone, which will only hurt.
Therefore, when colic is caused by urinary calculi, don't confuse it. Be sure to go to the hospital in time so as not to delay your illness.
Myth 2: Drinking drinks can also replenish water.
Many young people like to drink frozen carbonated drinks and beer in summer. As we all know, these carbonated drinks can't replace water.
Coke contains a lot of phosphate, which is closely related to stones and kidney diseases.
In addition, these drinks also contain calcium oxalate, which is easy to form stones. Drinking them instead of boiled water for a long time will increase the risk of diseases such as lithiasis.
Myth 3: Drinking beer can prevent stones.
Because alcohol and water in beer have diuretic effect, there is this saying. Studies have shown that the diuretic effect of alcohol can help urination in a short time, but if drinking too much, continuous urination will make water lose faster and lead to stones more easily.
Myth 4: If the stone doesn't hurt, you don't need treatment.
With the popularization of physical examination, many friends found out "small stones" in physical examination, but most of them think that they don't care if they are small, and they don't need treatment if they don't hurt. Stones can grow up slowly, and patients with severe obstruction may even lose renal function.
Others think that stones are not tumors, not so terrible, and it doesn't matter whether they are treated or not. This is also wrong. Clinically, there are many cases of such patients. Some patients carry stones for decades and eventually develop uremia, and then the treatment effect is not ideal.
Learn how to prevent it.
1. Drink more water.
The simplest and most effective way to prevent urinary calculi is to drink plenty of water, because water can dilute urine, flush urethra, prevent the formation of urine crystals, and also allow the formed crystals or small stones to be excreted with urine.
Therefore, it is suggested that patients with urinary calculi should drink more than 2000 ml of water every day.
2. avoid sedentary.
If people seldom exercise, which is not conducive to the absorption of calcium, it will increase the calcium in urine, resulting in kidney calculi or urinary calculi.
After working in the office for about two hours, you should stand up and do some simple relaxation exercises. We should also ensure a certain amount of exercise in our spare time. The daily exercise time should be more than 30 minutes.
Don't hold your urine
If you hold your urine regularly, the urinary system will produce pressure conduction, and if you hold it badly, it will even lead to urine reflux.
It will also cause irritation to the kidneys, which will cause kidney injury, kidney calculi and urinary tract infection for a long time.
4. Pay attention to a balanced diet
Eat less foods with high oxalic acid content, such as spinach, beans, grapes, cocoa, tea, oranges, tomatoes, potatoes, plums and bamboo shoots.
Eat less high-protein food and more dietary fiber. Control high purine foods, such as animal liver, seafood, beer, etc.