I was pleased to read the comments of people who read my article on abdominal pain. I decided to answer in a more detailed article the questions that seemed to me to be the most common and most worrisome for patients and their families.

Abdominal pain has many causes, ranging from a simple inflammation that only requires a special diet and analgesic treatment, to a surgical pathology. In other words, it requires immediate surgery.

In this aspect the ultrasound plays a very important role on the visualized findings and gives a diagnosis that in some opportunities can be definitive or in other cases it is only a finding as a complement of a diagnosis already established by the medical condition of the patient.

I am asked what causes kidney stones. The subject I wrote about last time and that I tried to explain was about seeing the kidney stones in the gallbladder through the ultrasound but it happens that these stones in the organism have their origin in several factors.

According to the studies that have been carried out through so many years of evolution of human pathological anatomy, the causes of diseases in human beings generally don’t have a single explanation. This is the reason why in many medical consultations patients with a disease are treated with a special diet along with medicines of which there are always several. All this allows them to counteract most of the causes of a disease as such.

In the case of stones or lithos in the organism the same thing happens. They don’t have a cause for which an exact treatment is given to prevent the stones from continuing to form. In the case of the gallbladder, the best thing to do is to remove it surgically. But in the past they only removed the stones from the gallbladder and with time the gallbladder would form stones again and the patient would have to be re-intervened.

Eventually it was decided to remove the viscera because without it and with some medication and diet one can live normally.

Now, returning to the causes of the origin of the stones both in the gallbladder and in the kidneys, there are multiple factors involved in their origin.

Genetic factor:

It has been found that there is a genetic disposition to the inheritance of lithiasic pathologies. When patients are studied for their clinical evaluation and are asked about relatives with this type of pathology, they usually answer that one side or the other of their family members have had cases of this same disease. In the human genome this gene is transmitted from generation to generation.

Social factor:

We know that in each family a type of food is consumed that generally goes from its previous generations. Recipes, tics, formulas and rituals are practiced in the daily food that comes from our knowledge acquired at home. Hence, the practice of eating and drinking certain types of food and beverages predisposes the organism to suffer a series of alterations and predisposes it as a basis for this type of pathology in question.

Metabolic factor:

There exists in the individual the predisposition to form lithos or stones in the kidneys, gall bladder and bladders, this means that in the nature of the organism there is already an implicit signal in the different organs to elaborate stones through the consumption of certain foods. The normal functioning of certain enzymes is stopped and they don’t split the nutrients from the food consumed, but these enzymes, both their altered presence and their absence to perform the synthesis, act as a predisposing factor to the formation of stones.

Dietary factor:

There is also a predisposition to form stones in the organs already mentioned from the consumption of canned or bottled foods or beverages. Eating too much protein, especially red meat, consuming too much salt in food and the low consumption of foods rich in fiber, and the persistence of the consumption of these comes with the tendency to develop lithos. The consumption of fats, carbohydrates, citrus fruits, caffeine, chocolate, spices, condiments and other foods and the abuse of their consumption predisposes this pathology.

Also the bad habit of not drinking enough fluids during the day allows the body not to eliminate toxic products from the body and therefore accumulate in these organs that are the ones that filter body fluids. 

Sedentary lifestyle:

People who are accustomed to not doing any type of physical exercise predispose the body to not move its internal organs in a favorable direction. In addition, a sedentary lifestyle does not contribute to the elimination of toxins that may accumulate inside the body.

These are not all the causes but they are in fact the most important in the generation of lithos in the organism. I hope this information will be of help to you.