Usually, your kidneys produce urine by filtering waste from your blood. Crystals grow in your kidneys when too much rubbish is in your blood, and your body isn't making enough urine. These crystals attract additional wastes and chemicals, forming a tangible item (a kidney stone) that will grow in size unless passed through your urine. Kidney stones can range in different size, even like a golf ball. Many dissolved minerals and salts can be found in urine. Stones can form when your urine contains excessive levels of certain minerals and salts. Kidney stones can start out small but grow over time, eventually filling the kidney's interior structures. Some stones remain in the kidney and are required. The stone can sometimes pass through the ureter by kidney stone treatment, which connects the kidney with the bladder. If the stone reaches the bladder, it can be transported through the urine and out of the body. If a stone becomes trapped in the ureter, it produces pain by blocking urine flow from that kidney.

Dr Rafael Antun is a urologist who specialises in adult and paediatric urology. Dr Antun received his medical degree from the InstitutoTecnologico de Santo Domingo in his native Dominican Republic. He also worked as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Central del Este's School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Nassau County Medical Center in New York and his urology residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He joined the Urology Depeartment as a faculty member after finishing his urology residency.

Blood tests are performed. Blood tests may suggest that you have an excessive amount of calcium or uric acid in your system. Blood test results can help your doctor monitor the health of your kidneys and may prompt them to look for other medical issues. The 24-hour urine collection test, according to our finest urologist Doral, may reveal that you're excreting too many stone-forming minerals or too few stone-preventing chemicals. we may ask you to collect two urine samples over two days for this test.

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