Sites Where Stones Can Form In Body
Kidneys
These hard nuggets grow when minerals usually calcium build up in
urinary tract. They can really hurt especially in back near hip and ribs.
If they get big enough they may block passage of urine. There may be
blood or piece of stone in urine. Small stones may get out on their own
but larger one needs to be surgically removed.
Throat
Tonsils are lumps of tissue at the back of throat. They filter out germs,
food particles, dead skin or other debris. They can caught up in tonsils
and hardens to form stone called tonsilloliths.
Bladder
If urine is too high in some mineral and too low in others. These stones
form on their own or if a small kidney stone slips into bladder and gets
bigger. The urine may be cloudy or there may be blood in urine. Lower
abdominal pain while passing out urine.
Gallbladder
This small organ in upper abdomen is a storage place for bile; a digestive
juice prepared by liver. Bilirubin is a component of bile which mixed
with cholesterol may form gallstones. When they produce symptoms,
surgical removal of gall bladder is needed.
Prostate
Prostate is a small gland in men near the neck of urinary bladder.
It produces a fluid to protect sperms. Poppy seed size stones
some time form here which usually don't produce symptoms
but some time may produce infection which is treated by
antibiotics.
There are some other places where a stone can form but
they are not so common.
Mouth
Pancreas
Veins
Nose
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