Are kidney stones contagious?

I believe that patients with kidney stones are tortured by the disease, because kidney stones will cause patients to experience kidney pain and back pain. When kidney stones fall into the urethra, it will cause great pain to the patient's urethra. In modern clinical medicine, individual differences in kidney stones are very large, and are mainly determined based on the size of the patient's kidney stones. Are some patients worried that kidney stones may be contagious?

Experts say: Kidney stones are not hereditary. There are many factors that affect the formation of stones, including age, gender, race, genetics, environmental factors, eating habits and occupation. Metabolic abnormalities, urinary tract obstruction, infection, foreign bodies and drug use are common causes of stone formation. Although kidney stones are not hereditary, the harm they cause cannot be underestimated.

The clinical manifestations vary greatly from person to person, depending on the etiology, size, number, location, mobility, presence of obstruction or infection, and the degree of pathological damage to the renal parenchyma. In mild cases, there may be no symptoms at all, while in severe cases, anuria, renal failure, toxic shock, and even death may occur. This is the most common hazard of kidney stones.

The harm of kidney stones also manifests itself in that when the stones are lodged at the junction of the renal pelvis and ureter or descend in the ureter, renal colic may occur, which is a sudden onset of paroxysmal knife-like pain. The pain is so severe that the patient tosses and turns restlessly. The pain radiates from the waist or side abdomen downward to the bladder area, the vulva, and the inner thigh. Sometimes there is sweating, nausea and vomiting.

Because stones cause serious damage to the mucosa, there is often visible hematuria and pain, and hematuria often occurs when the patient is more active. When stones induce infection, pus cells appear in the urine and there are symptoms of frequent and painful urination, which are also common hazards of kidney stones.

Common dangers of kidney stones also include systemic symptoms such as fever, chills and shivering when secondary to acute pyelonephritis or pyonephrosis, and anuria when bilateral upper urinary tract stones or complete obstruction by kidney stones.