[Rational therapy of urolithiasis in every-day practice]

Patients with renal colic are usually treated in emergency care units or by their family doctors and require immediate diagnosis and treatment. The life-time risk is up to 10 %. The prevalence amounts to 4.7 % in Germany. In addition to confirming the diagnosis and inducing an adequate pain therapy it's very important for patients to be directed correctly and, above all, prevention is important, too. Without treatment the recurrence rate ranges between 50 and 100 %. Particularly, these principals should give useful advice, wherever patients are treated without urological department.