What are the symptoms of severe urinary stones?

Urinary tract stones are a relatively common type of stone disease, which are quite harmful to patients. Urinary tract stones include bladder stones, ureteral stones, etc. When stones first appear, they often cause pain and infection symptoms. In addition, if the inflammation is more serious, hematuria may also occur. If urinary tract stones block the ureter, it can also cause symptoms such as difficulty urinating, pain, and urgency in urination.

Types and symptoms of urinary stones

Urinary tract stones are divided into upper urinary tract stones and lower urinary tract stones. The symptoms of urinary stones also vary depending on the location of the stones.

Upper urinary tract stones

Upper urinary tract stones: such as kidney stones and ureteral stones often manifest as pain in the lower back or abdomen. In mild cases, the patient may feel soreness or discomfort in the lower back, and in severe cases, the patient may experience severe knife-like pain. It seems that very few people can endure this kind of pain, and doctors call it renal colic. It often occurs suddenly, and the pain often radiates to the lower abdomen, groin, inner thigh, and to the labia in women. When colic occurs, the patient often has an abnormally painful expression, presses his abdomen and waist with his hands, curls up in bed, or even rolls on the bed, groaning and sweating profusely. The attack often lasts for several hours, but may also resolve on its own within minutes. It is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and hematuria. Sometimes hematuria can be seen from the beginning to the end of urination. The urine is bright red, tea color or meat washing water color, but most hematuria can only be found under a microscope.

Lower urinary tract stones

Lower urinary tract stones include bladder stones, urethral stones, and ureteral stones. Their symptoms vary.

① Bladder stones often present as interrupted urination and painful urination. The pain is dull pain in the lower abdomen and perineum, or it can be obvious or severe pain. The pain worsens at the end of urination and may be accompanied by terminal hematuria. Patients often want to lie down to relieve pain. If the stone is embedded in the bladder neck, there will be obvious difficulty in urination, and urination may be interrupted or acute urinary retention may occur. The patient must change his position or shake his body to continue urinating. At this time, sudden severe pain occurs, which may radiate to the penis, glans penis and perineum. Children with bladder stones often experience unbearable pain when the stones are impacted, sweating profusely, crying loudly, pulling or rubbing the penis or grabbing the perineum with their hands, and changing various body positions to relieve the pain.

②Urethra stones present as difficulty urinating, dripping, and sometimes interrupted urine flow and urine retention. There is obvious pain when urinating, which radiates to the head of the penis. Posterior urethral stones cause perineum and scrotal pain. Penile stones can be felt as a lump at the painful area, and forceful urination can sometimes expel the stone. Patients with concurrent infection have purulent urethral discharge. Female urethral diverticulum stones often present with frequent urination, urgency, pain, pyuria, and hematuria;

③Obvious symptoms of ureteral and lower urinary tract stones include: dull pain in the lower abdomen, a strong urge to defecate, but no stool is discharged. This is because the stone blocks the junction of the ureter and bladder, causing a false neurological complication. This feeling may disappear after the bladder is filled, the ureters are dilated, and the stone obstruction is relieved. However, as urine is discharged, the ureter contracts and the embolism forms again and reappears. When embolism occurs, it leads to the formation of hydronephrosis. Can cause significant renal colic.

After reading the editor's introduction, people have an understanding of the symptoms of urinary stones. It is hoped that understanding the symptoms of urinary stones can help people detect and treat the disease early when they are sick, and not delay the treatment time. I hope that every patient with urinary stones can stay away from the disease as soon as possible and get rid of the troubles of the disease.