Kidney stones are a common kidney disease, characterized by back pain and hematuria, and the pain they cause is so excruciating that it’s “impossible to forget for life.” Once a patient has kidney stones, he or she will have a high chance of having another one, so it is important to prevent them through diet.
Kidney stones are not painful when they first appear, so many people do not know that they have stones in their bodies.
They are usually diagnosed only when the kidney stone becomes lodged in the ureter, causing severe back pain and hematuria.
According to Dr. John Cijiang He, lifetime professor and chief of Nephrology at Mount Sinai Health System, the pain of kidney stones is something that’s “impossible to forget for life.”…