If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to have suffered with kidney stones in the past, you certainly won’t need us to talk about just how painful and debilitating the condition can be.
For everybody else that hasn’t, just rest assured that kidney stones are incredibly debilitating and are a medical condition which you will want to avoid at all costs. Not only can kidney stones be very painful, they can also be a slow and gradual build, which means that you’ll find your quality of life getting worse and worse with the passing of each day, until you eventually pass the stones in question.
Both men and women can be affected by kidney stones, and to make matters worse they can affect people of all ages, though they are common with people of a certain age (more on that later).
Taking care of your urinary tract, and your health in general can certainly help to reduce your risk of kidney stones, but in order to fully deal with them, we first need to understand them.
Here is a detailed look at what causes kidney stones pain, and kidney stones in general.