Pregnancy combined with urolithiasis how to do

Pregnancy complicated with urolithiasis is a very special urolithiasis, which is not uncommon in clinical practice. Of course, after pregnancy complicated with urolithiasis, things will become more complicated. Generally speaking, pregnancy complicated with urolithiasis cannot be treated by extracorporeal lithotripsy, because extracorporeal lithotripsy may affect the fetus. No matter what part of the stone, kidney, ureter, upper and lower ureter or bladder stone, extracorporeal lithotripsy cannot be performed. That is to say, pregnancy combined with urinary calculi is extracorporeal lithotripsy, absolute contraindications. In addition, if the patient shows very severe renal colic or fever, it is generally recommended to first perform ureteral catheter drainage under cystoscope to relieve the patient's symptoms, reduce infection and pain. This method can be used to wait for the patient to give birth before treating the stone. If the patient is really urgent, ureteroscopy can be performed under anesthesia to remove stones and remove stones. However, in general, if the patient is complicated with urolithiasis during pregnancy, It is best not to do too much intervention is very important, need to emphasize that before pregnancy is best to do a general physical examination, but also including urinary system physical examination, if you can get rid of stones before pregnancy, will not encounter in pregnancy, at the same time combined with urolithiasis so complex situation.