Kidney Stones: Other Body Parts Stones May Form Apart From Kidney

A painful and serious health condition is kidney stones but stones can also form in other parts.

KIDNEY STONES – Here are the other body parts that stones may form aside from the kidney that you probably don’t know yet.

Painful and formed from chemicals in the urine is kidney stones. The stones have four types: calcium oxalate, uric acid, struvite, and cystine. This serious medical issue can be treated with several procedures and a lot of people are affected by this.

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Chemicals that form a stone are calcium, oxalate, urate, cystine, xanthine, and phosphate. There are a lot of underlying causes to this which included drinking too little water, too much or too little exercise, consumption of too much salt or sugar from foods you eat, and others.

Among the common symptoms of this condition are:

severe pain in the lower back
pain in the stomach that doesn’t go away
blood in urine
nausea or vomiting
fever and chills
cloudy-looking or bad-looking urine

However, stones may not only form in the kidney. It can also form on other parts of the body such as the following:

Throat – the white lumps at the back of your throat are hardened food, dead skin, or other debris that got stuck in there formed into stones called tonsilitis.
Bladder – the stones form because you don’t pee completely and among other reasons. Symptoms may include cloudy or bloody urine or pain in the lower belly.
Prostate – stones in the prostate are most common to middle age and older men.
Pancreas – stones from the gallbladder can pass through the pancreas and inflame it. This may cause fever, fast pulse, nausea, and belly pain that is worse especially after meals.
Veins – this is because blood can hardly pass a certain spot which results to blood clot eventually leading to stone when hardened.

The gallbladder, mouth, nose, and belly are other parts of the body where stones may form as per an article from WebMD.