How to relieve the pain of urinary stones in pregnant women

Pregnant women care more about their own and their fetus's health. Even if the fetus is growing and developing well, if the pregnant woman is sick, it will directly affect the growth and development of the fetus. Therefore, pregnant women should pay more attention to their physical condition during pregnancy. So, let’s know how to relieve the pain of urethral stones in pregnant women?

If urethral stone pain occurs during pregnancy, pregnant women should first see a doctor for examination to find out the severity of the symptoms. If the doctor tells the pregnant woman that surgery is not necessary, she can use physical methods to relieve pain. Massage is very useful. Pregnant women can ask their relatives for help. First, find the painful points on the waist, and then press the painful points lightly with your thumbs. Continuous pressing for a while can relieve the pain.

If urethral stones in pregnant women cause renal colic, they can relieve it by applying hot compresses to the waist. Pregnant women should prepare a large cotton towel in advance, soak it in boiling water, dry it and apply it to the painful area of ​​the waist. After a while, the pain will be relieved to a certain extent. However, safety precautions must be taken when applying heat. Do not let the hot towel cover the pregnant woman's belly, and do not lie down for hot compresses.

Pregnant women with urinary stones should drink more hot water and relieve pain by increasing urination. Also pay attention to the diet. Do not eat foods containing a lot of high-quality protein and oxalic acid, such as milk, broccoli, etc. Pregnant women with urethral stones should never eat them.

So are the symptoms of urinary stones serious or not?

1. The onset of pain

The main symptom of urethral stones is that urethral stones can cause painful experience. Primary urethral stones often grow gradually or are located in a diverticulum. There is no pain response in the early stage. Secondary urethral stones are mostly caused by sudden insertion into the urethral opening. Patients often suddenly experience pain in the urethral opening and pain when urinating. The pain may radiate to the glans penis, vulva, or duodenum.

2. Experience of tenderness and hard lumps at the urethral opening

Most patients can feel a hard lump and tenderness in the urethral calculus part, and posterior urethral calculi can be palpated through rectal digital examination. Multiple stones in the urethral diverticulum can give you a paradoxical feeling of stones that feel like stone.

3. Hematuria and urethral discharge

Outpatients often experience terminal hematuria and initial hematuria, or a small amount of blood dripping out at the end of urine, accompanied by severe pain. Patients with sluggishness often have mucous or purulent discharge from the urethra.

4. The experience of difficult urination

The stones cause incomplete obstruction of the urethral opening, which will cause the urine flow to narrow, bifurcate and become weak, accompanied by frequent urination, urgency, inability to hold urine and dripping urine. Secondary urethral stones, because the stones are suddenly placed in the urethral opening, often cause sudden urination interruption, strong urinary sensation and bladder and anal prolapse, and often cause urine retention.