What to do if you have ureteral stones? Do you know how to take care of it?

Urinary system stones are a relatively common stone disease. According to the location of the stones, they can be divided into ureteral stones, kidney stones, urethral stones and bladder stones, among which most patients suffer from ureteral stones. Many ureteral stones are developed from the migration of kidney stones. After suffering from ureteral stones, patients may experience renal colic, urinary pain, hematuria and other phenomena. Among them, the symptoms of renal colic are more severe and often seriously affect the patient's quality of life. For patients with ureteral stones, nursing is very important. Good nursing can effectively relieve the patient's pain and promote physical recovery. So, how should ureteral stones be cared for? Next, I will give you some popular science knowledge, hoping to provide help to everyone.

Using drugs for pain

Renal colic caused by ureteral stones is often more severe and unbearable for ordinary people, so analgesic measures for patients are very important. Due to the severe pain, conventional analgesic measures are difficult to work, and patients often need to use drugs for analgesia. Commonly used drugs include antispasmodics, non-steroidal analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, and opioid analgesics. Among them, antispasmodics can relieve patients' spasm symptoms. Commonly used drugs are atropine sulfate, which can effectively relieve the symptoms of smooth muscle contraction, thereby relieving patients' pain; non-steroidal analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs are more common analgesics. Commonly used drugs are ibuprofen, indomethacin, diclofenac sodium, etc., which can make the body's nerve endings less sensitive to pain, thereby achieving analgesic effects; opioid analgesics have a stronger analgesic effect, but limited use is not recommended. If the patient is not responding well to non-steroidal analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, consider using opioid analgesics.

Surgical analgesia

The symptoms of renal colic caused by ureteral stones are more severe. If the patient cannot achieve the corresponding analgesic effect after using drugs, or the stone is large in size with a radius of more than 3 mm, surgical analgesia is required. Among them, for patients with acute attacks of ureteral stones, if they want to relieve severe pain, they can choose extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, which can not only help patients quickly get rid of obstruction, but also control the patient's pain. During the extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy process, a stent can be placed in the patient's ureter to promote the discharge of stones. At the same time, ureteroscopic lithotripsy is also an important way to relieve the patient's pain. If the patient has been infected due to ureteral stones and the symptoms are more severe, percutaneous nephrostomy drainage can be chosen for treatment.

Adjust your eating habits

In order to promote the discharge of ureteral stones and prevent the further increase of stone volume, dietary adjustment is also very important, and it needs to be adjusted according to the type of stone of the patient. If the patient has calcium stones, he should pay attention to avoid excessive calcium intake in life, and can eat more lactic acid cheese, cheese, milk and other dairy products; if the patient has oxalate stones, he must pay attention to strictly control the intake of sodium salt and oxalate in life, and try to eat less peanuts, asparagus, tomatoes, spinach, cabbage, strong tea and other foods. If the patient's uric acid is too high to form stones, it is also necessary to avoid the intake of high-purine foods to prevent the stone volume from further increasing.

Lifestyle Management

After suffering from ureteral stones, lifestyle management is also very important. First of all, patients should pay attention to proper exercise and can choose their favorite way to exercise, including fitness, swimming, walking, jogging, etc., which can enhance physical fitness, reduce the risk of stone infection, and promote the smooth excretion of stones. Secondly, ureteral stones can be discharged from the body through urine, so patients should increase their water intake. It is recommended to drink more than 2000 ml of water per day, urinate more, and cooperate with exercise to promote the smooth excretion of stones.

Pay attention to monitor the condition

The long-term development of ureteral stones may cause serious consequences. The patient's kidney function on one side may fail or even be lost. Therefore, it is very important to monitor and treat the disease, because some patients mistakenly believe that stones will not cause harm after the renal colic is relieved, which reduces the enthusiasm for treatment. Patients should actively cooperate with treatment and go to the hospital for regular checkups to determine whether the stones have recurred and whether they have pain symptoms. They should also pay attention to monitoring renal function to avoid renal function loss.

The above is the care knowledge for ureteral stones. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

Author: Xu Chuanmei Linjian Town Central Hospital