There are a lot of physicians these days, and all of them have their own concepts and values for sufferers. Although all of them know what they are doing, the advice they give would be based on these choices. Some of them would suggest taking the long, safe route. Others would want the patients to go home happy as soon as possible. Both have their positive points, but it is best to ask your physician for other choices when it comes to Treatment for Kidney Stones, then create your choice. Seeking a second opinion will always be a good smart choice.

• Medicines: Medicines for Kidney Stone Treatment range from drugs, to more powerful drugs to help expel the stones. Smaller stones can be mostly demolished naturally, but passing them can still be quite painful, and physicians suggest pain medication to help reduce the patients suffering. For averagely sized stones, physicians may suggest alpha-blockers like Uroxatral, Cardura, or Flomax to help relax and expand the muscles of the ureters for making it simpler to pass the stones. In addition, if you suffer from repeating stones, your doctor may suggest medicine made to help your body combat them to fight them.
• Active Technical Treatment: For more severe situations, physicians may suggest extracorporeal lithotripsy (ESWL) or ureteroscopy to break up stones and make them simpler to pass. ESWL treatment uses shock waves to break up the kidney stones while they are still inside the body. During an ureteroscopy process, a physician small tube up the urinary tract then inserts equipment into the pipe to actually break up the stones. In some cases, a stent will be left in the ureter for a little while to aid in passing the stones.
• Surgery: This is the last resort, and obviously the most dangerous one. In sometimes when the stones are too large to be removed, physicians may suggest surgery for Treatment for Kidney Stones before they can cause further harm to the patients. In a nephrolithotripsy process, a physician makes a little hole in the back and eliminates the stone from the kidney using laser which forst turns the hard stone to powder form, while in open surgery, which is not done any longer, a cut is made in the stomach or side and the stone is taken away from there.

These are the choices that physicians have available when choosing Kidney Stone Treatment. Each choice has a risk, and physicians must think about carefully before deciding.

Taking all the available techniques, most prevalence is by ESWL and lasers by URS or RIRS technology. These all are non-surgical procedures and gives result quite satisfactorily in experienced hands.