AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -When passing a stone, upping your water intake can help speed up the process. Strive for 12 glasses of water per day instead of the usual 8. Once the stone passes, you should continue to drink 8 to 12 glasses of water each day.

Detailed explanation-2: -Drink plenty of water Kidney stones smaller than 5mm can pass out with urine. Therefore, patients should drink a lot of water to increase the ability to eliminate stones and prevent stones from developing. With larger stones, the ability to follow the urine out is very low.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most kidney stones with a diameter of less than 5 millimeters, and about half of all stones between 5 and 10 millimeters, pass out of the body on their own. These smaller kidney stones are often flushed out in the urine after one or two weeks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most kidney stones removed from a patient is 172, 155, which were removed from Dhanraj Wadile by Dr Ashish Rawandale (India) at the Institute of Urology, Dhule, Maharastra, India on 8 December 2009. The stones were removed from Dhanraj Wadile’s left pelvic kidney using endoscopy in a three-hour-long operation.