Kidney stones or urinary tract stones are generally caused by changing the normal balance of water, salt, minerals, and other substances in urine. Type of substance that rising levels determine the type of rock formed.
1. Uric acid stones; surface smooth, brown, and soft. These stones are formed from uric acid levels in urine high. Uric acid stone disease is usually accompanied by arthritis uric acid (gout arthritis).
2. Struvite stone; stones are usually shaped antlers. Arising from the content of ammonia in the urine high. High Ammonia is usually the result of urinary tract infection, because bacteria that cause infection can produce ammonia.
3. Cystine stones; shaped yellow crystals. Arising from high levels of cystine in the urine. This situation occurs in sistinuria disease. Stone of this type are rarely found, only one among a thousand. Cystine stones are usually about the patients aged 10 - 30 years.
4. Calcium stones; rock types are most commonly found. Great shape with a smooth surface. Can be a mixture of calcium with oxalate or calcium to phosphate. Calcium stones are often found in people who have excessive levels of vitamin D or parathyroid gland disorder. People who suffer from cancer, kidney disease, or disease can also suffer sarkoidosis calcium stones.
Tips to avoid kidney stone disease:
1. Balanced diet, exercise, and maintaining ideal body weight remained.
2. Do not hold your urine; urine can cause suppressed become more concentrated urine, or urinary tract infections. Concentrated urine and urinary tract infections are the supporting factors of stone formation.
3. Drinking water when i wake up at dawn today. This would immediately stimulate us to urinate, so that the water had crept art semalamam replaced with new ones.
4. Drink lots of water (8-10 glasses a day), thus becomes more dilute urine, thereby reducing the possibility of forming substances stones to belong together. By drinking a lot, colored urine is usually clear, not yellow anymore.