| Kidney Stones are surprisingly common and becoming | | | | into your bladder. At this stage, you might experience |
| more so. Americans have about a 10% chance of | | | | pain or burning when you urinate.The pain can be |
| suffering kidney stones in their lifetime, although in | | | | over in minutes -- or last for two days. It's worse if |
| the western world generally the overall chance is | | | | the stone is large enough to get lodged in the ureter, |
| around 4%.The difference is explained because | | | | making a watertight seal.This means the urine cannot |
| kidney stones are, to a large extent, a disease of | | | | flow down the ureter tube into the bladder. This |
| affluence, particularly where a high fat, low fiber diet | | | | seals off the flow of urine, putting pressure on the |
| is consumed.The exact cause of kidney stones is | | | | tube walls, causing more pain. The urine then backs |
| quite complex, but gender certainly plays a part, | | | | up into the kidney which, if left untreated, increases |
| because twice as many men as women get them. | | | | the chances of a kidney infection. The pain may be |
| Incidents of kidney stones are most common | | | | accompanied by the frequent urge to urinate, which |
| between the ages of 25 and 45. After age 50, the | | | | may prove impossible, due to the blockage. This is |
| incidence of stones in both sexes declines.Often, | | | | when removal of the stone becomes a priority. Either |
| there is no sign you even have a kidney stone, | | | | by surgery, medication or by using a natural home |
| because they are too small and don't move. These | | | | remedy cure.Happily, because diet plays such a major |
| types of stone are called "silent stones".It's only | | | | part in their formation, adopting a suitable diet can do |
| when the stone starts to travel down the narrow | | | | much to prevent a kidney stone forming. This is even |
| ureter tube, linking the kidney to the bladder, the | | | | more important if there is a history of kidney stones |
| really excruciating pain starts.When it starts to move, | | | | in your family.Paul Hooper-Kelly owns and has just |
| kidney stone pain is excruciating. This usually starts in | | | | released a report about a simple home remedy, using |
| your back, as a severe ache in the lower back on | | | | regular household items, to painlessly dissolve kidney |
| either or both sides, at waist level. Then the spasms | | | | stones in hours, without surgery or pills.He also |
| of intense pain moves from your back to your front | | | | reveals some simple steps for kidney stone |
| and, eventually down to your groin. It only ends | | | | prevention. |
| when the stone finally drops out of the ureter and | | | | |