Kidney Stones But No Infection. Kidney stones can also cause nausea. Infections cause kidney stones in about 15 of stone formers.
A risk with kidney stones is a kidney infection which can lead to sepsis. This produces ammonium and hydroxyl ions. Small kidney stones pass out of the body in the urine and this can be painful.
It could also be an unrelated issue.
They did an ultrasound of my gall bladder spleen liver kidney and bladder and everything looked fine. Telling a kidney stone apart from a kidney infection may not be as easy as you hoped it would be. Lingering pain after passing a kidney stone could be a sign that you have another stone an obstruction or infection. If there is no infection present the person may be passing a kidney stone.