Kidney stones refer to small, solidified "stones", consisting of salts and minerals, stuck on the inner surface of the kidney. Kidney stones are mostly composed of calcium. However, a smaller number consist of uric acid or something called struvite. Kidney stones form due to an imbalance of water, calcium oxylate, uric acid, and phosphate that are usually present in the urine. Stones are also known to form when the pH of the urine is not normal or when normal mechanisms that protect the kidney's are inundated. While often excruciatingly painful, these stones will usually pass by themselves. Thus the only medical treatment needed is to relieve the pain.

Kidney Stones Symptoms: The list of kidney stones symptoms, naturally start with the associated, excruciating pain. It tends to start slightly below the ribs, on the side or back, from there it spreads in waves, to the lower abdomen and groin.

The pain is often uneven, in the sense that it varies in intensity, with periods of agonizing pain lasting from 20 to 60 minutes.

Additional kidney stones symptoms concern urination. Patients suffering from these stones often feel a constant need to urinate, this urination can be painful and the urine is sometimes bloody and has a very unpleasant odor.

There are four types of kidney stones:

· Calcium stones

· Struvite stones

· Uric acid stones

· Cysteine stones

Foods that cause Kidney Stone: Oxalates are insoluble salt forms derived from foods rich in oxalic acids. Most researches show that oxalate or oxalic acids are potential risks in forming kidney stones.

Foods Rich in Sodium: High consumption of sodium may also pose threat to formation of kidney stones. Salt and other sodium compositions in food ingredients may contribute to high amount of calcium excreted to the urine.

Foods Rich in Protein: Too much intake of protein-rich foods may also contribute to increasing calcium in the urine.

Foods Rich in Sugar: Large amount of sugar may also increase the tendency of producing calcium oxalate stones. It would be wise to decrease sugar intake in meals.

Prevention: Drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day to help wash out the insoluble salts or oxalates from of our renal system, before they get to form as kidney stones.

Including foods rich in insoluble fibers in our diet; these are the indigestible parts of plants.Insoluble fibers often found in wheat, rye, barley or rice help reduce calcium in our urine. This is because the insoluble fibers combine with calcium while still in the intestines. Calcium now is excreted by way of stool instead of urine thus avoiding passage through our renal organs.

Treatment of Kidney Stone by Simple Home Therapy and Medications:

you have to drink at least 2 glasses of water for every 2 hours during the day. This will help your urine clear up and make your kidney stones soluble enough to be washed out bit by bit through urination.