Kidney Stones

If you’ve ever experienced kidney stones, or you are experiencing them for the first time, you know how excruciating they can be. Perhaps you’re not sure if you’ve had them before but recall experiencing some mild or even serious discomfort during urination, a dull ache or sharp pain in your lower back, side or groin area. Maybe you’ve gone to the bathroom and were shocked, even scared to see blood in your urine, especially when you’re in so much pain. What’s wrong? These are all common symptoms and signs of kidney stones, also known as renal stone disease.

The US National Institute of Health estimates that 1 in 10 people develop kidney stones at some point in their life. Researchers at the USNIH have found that those who live near large bodies of water (the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, etc.) are more likely to develop kidney stones, as well as those who live in “soft” water areas (where water contains low levels of calcium, magnesium and other minerals). Also, people who come from a family with a history of renal stone disease are more likely to develop stones because certain genetic conditions that promote stone development can be inherited from parents.

Kidney stones occur most often in people aged 30-45, though they can occur in men and women of all ages, and their frequency and possibility for occurrence decreases after 50. Certain types of stones are more common in men and other types of stones are more common in women. The agonizing pain of passing a kidney stone for a man has often been compared to the pain of childbirth—ouch!

Kidney stones develop for several reasons and it is usually a combination of these that make them most likely to occur. Your kidneys play a key role in keeping you healthy. They filter your blood, taking out the waste and adding it to your urine to be expelled from your body. They regulate electrolyte and pH balance in your body, as well as blood pressure by expelling fluid from your body. Stones can form due to a chemical imbalance (too much or too few of certain minerals), a pH imbalance (to much acidity or too alkaline), and dehydration, Several other medical conditions sometime lead to stones such as a congenital kidney defect, chronic diarrhea, arthritis and urinary tract infection.

Another very important factor is diet. According to the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, “animal protein, popular in low carbohydrate, high protein (LCHP) diets, has been shown to boost urinary excretion of oxalate, a compound that combines with calcium and other compounds to form kidney stones.” People who consume large amounts of protein and fat, like the hundreds of thousands of people on the Atkins diet, are quite susceptible to kidney stones. The American Academy of Family Physicians claims that high protein intake is largely responsible for the high prevalence of kidney stones in the United States, and research shows that a diet rich in animal proteins and calcium oxalate contributes to the rise in cases of kidney stones. “The absence of fruit and other vegetables means the body is deprived of a means of counteracting the negative effect,” says Dr. Bill Robertson, a clinical biochemist at the University College Medical School of London.

Maybe you’ve missed work or had to cancel dinner plans or other social activities because the constant irritation and stinging pain makes you restless, agitated, and even unable to sit down for any length of time. Maybe the frequent and urgent sensation to urinate is driving you crazy, especially when it is painful and may not produce more than a few drops each time. Or you’re stressed out, frustrated and anxious because you are experiencing a tremendous amount of pain, there’s blood in your urine and your doctor has told you to wait it out and see if the stones pass on their own. Maybe the pain is just driving you crazy—pain medication has little effect and you just can’t do anything to get comfortable.

Kidney stones can cause you incredible pain. They form in your kidneys sometimes causing uncomfortable swelling. Regardless of the size of kidney stones, which can range from the size of a grain of sand to a tennis ball, they can pass out of your kidney and lodge in the ureter, the long narrow tube connecting your kidneys to your bladder. This can cause swelling, muscle spasms and agonizing pain. It can even block the flow of urine and other waste filtered from your body by your kidneys from traveling to your bladder and being expelled from your body. Once in the bladder the stones will be slowly and painfully passed out through the urethra. This is usually much more painful for men, being compared to the pain of childbirth. Kidney stones can be common in women who experience frequent urinary tract infections. Most women will have a urinary tract infection at some time in their life.

A woman’s urethra is short and straight and a man’s urethra is long and S-curved; for both, passing a kidney stone out of the bladder can be tremendously painful as the stones scratch along the urethra, the narrow tube through which urine flows out of the body.

Kidney stones come in all shapes and sizes. They form when substances filtered by the kidneys do not dissolve and begin crystallizing in the kidneys. This happens when there are low levels of fluid in the body (dehydration) and low levels of certain chemicals normally found in the body—citrate, magnesium and pyrophosphate. These help keep the body non-acidic (a normal pH balance). They also help break down minerals that naturally occur in your body, like uric acid, calcium and oxalate, but which can crystallize into stones when they are present in excessive amounts.

There are four types of stones that can form in your kidneys, based on what factors are creating favorable conditions for them to form. The most common of these is known as a calcium stone and forms when there is too much calcium present in urine. Calcium stones make up for about 80-85% of all kidney stones. Calcium is usually removed from the blood as it is filtered through the kidneys and expelled during urination. When fluid or chemical levels in the body are imbalanced, calcium may not dissolve. It typically binds with other substances such as oxalate or phosphate, or both.

Another common stone formation is known as a uric acid stone. It accounts for about 10% of all stones and is most common in men. During digestion our bodies produce uric acid. If too much is produced or not enough filtered and dissolved in the kidneys it can form into stones. Like calcium stones, those formed by uric acid vary greatly in shape and size.

A third and incredibly painful stone that occurs mostly in women, because they are more susceptible to urinary tract infections, is known as a struvite. When the urinary tract becomes infected it causes a chemical imbalance in your urine. Bacteria from the infection can neutralize acid in the urine making it easier for more bacteria to grow. This can cause struvite stones to develop. Sometimes they develop into large and jagged stones commonly called “staghorns”, and can be extraordinarily agonizing.

The fourth type of stone is very uncommon. It is called a cystine stone and rarely occurs except in a select few who have a congenital (inherited) kidney dysfunction. Cystine stones are very difficult to treat and often require life-long therapy. These pictures are probably painful to look at, knowing what might be forming, blocking, slowly moving through your urinary system. You don’t have to suffer any more, waiting for a stone to pass painfully and with great difficulty. You can finally have relief from agonizing urination and the anxiety caused by irritation, restlessness and the expectancy of pain. Lithonal™ is a remarkable, reliable and all-natural solution to the uncertainty and aggravation of kidney stones.

Whats in Lithonal™?

Lithonal™ is safe and contains all-natural ingredients that have effectively alleviated kidney stones and relieved the pain they cause in hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. Lithonal™ is a very specific blend of all natural ingredients to target the cause of kidney stones and the pain they produce.

Lithonal™ is safe, easy and proven effective. If you wait it out and neglect the cause of your kidney stones you can expect a lot of discomfort and irritation. Your stones may even become larger or a more serious problem could occur like complete blockage of your urinary system requiring a surgical procedure.

Here are the powerful ingredients in Lithonal™: