At present, there are three main methods for the treatment of kidney stones, which are drug lithotripsy, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and surgical treatment. These three treatment methods are not randomly selected, but need to be selected according to the size of stones. If the stone is small, less than 5 mm, then you can choose drugs to remove stones at this time. Patients should drink more water, urinate frequently, and exercise more, so that the effect of stone removal may be better. However, if the stone is relatively large, which has exceeded 5mm, the stone removal effect of this drug is relatively poor, and it needs to be treated with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The principle of this treatment is to break large stones into small ones and then expel them from the body. If the stone is further enlarged and has exceeded 20mm, or the stone is not so large, but the stone is not very regular, and the effect of the above two methods is relatively poor, then surgery can be used to treat it. But surgical treatment is relatively traumatic.
