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How To Treat Kidney Stones?
My wife is 30 weeks pregnant and has been in the the Hospital for 4 days now. Her Dr first said it was a kidney infection but now thinks it may be kidney stones. Her symptoms started out as pain in her left side then moved to her back with a temp of 101. They started her on antibiotics and nausea medicine. Her temp will stay down for extended periods and out of nowhere will spike into the low 100's. The Dr said that they can not do a CT Scan for stones if that is what it is due to the radiation. Have performed Ultrasound on her kidneys and said that it is enlarged. Just wondering if it could be something else because the fever.
Tue, 18 Aug 2015
Hello, from what description you have given here it seems it could be urinary tract infection vs kidney stone. But fever goes more with urinary tract infection. Kidney stone wont cause fever in most of the cases. The doctors are right as we cant expose her to radiation in form of xray or CT scans. One thing is we can get her urine checked for routine and culture examination. If it shows multiple pus cells or bacteria present we can pin point to urinary tract infection and can treat her with appropriate antibiotic based on the culture report. I hope this may help. Thank you
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