Your kidney works hard to clear excess salts from what you have digested, but when the salts build up in your kidney, so does the trouble. These salts can harden into stones as big as ping-pong balls and cause you excruciating pain. How can you prevent these urinary stones, and how do you remove them? We learn more from Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor, consultant urologist from Sunway Medical Center.

<p>Your kidney works hard to clear excess salts from what you have digested, but when the salts build up in your kidney, so does the trouble. These salts can harden into stones as big as ping-pong balls and cause you excruciating pain. How can you prevent these urinary stones, and how do you remove them? We learn more from Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor, consultant urologist from Sunway Medical Center.</p>

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