Kidney stones foods not to eat
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Vitamin A (not betacarotene) promotes healthy functioning of the urinary tract, if you're deficient in it sometimes kidney stones can form.
You’ll find vitamin A in most good general multiple vitamin and mineral supple-
ments. Magnesium helps the body dissolve calcium if you’re deficient in this mineral it can cause calcium to accumulate into deposits, which
increases your risk of forming kidney stones.
Antioxidants reduce the amount of inflammation in your body, which helps the kidneys function properly. The potassium in cauliflower is known to prevent kidney stones. Kidney stones can lead to kidney infections and eventually chronic kidney disease.
Eat cauliflower raw with a hummus dip or steam it with a squeeze of lemon. Cauliflower is also delicious smashed with low fat sour cream and fresh parsley.
Do consult with your doctor about this issue for their guidance. Kidney stones are something we all want to avoid! If our diet can help, good to try, right? Avoiding foods high in oxalate, a compound found in many of them, is the key to this approach. Oxalate is a leading component of many kidney stones with calcium oxalate being the most common type of stone. Foods to avoid: Spinach
Bran flakes
Rhubarb
Beets
Potato chips
French fries
Nuts and nut butters
These are high in oxalate.
Depending on the stone you have, you will need to avoid certain food items. For oxalate stones you need to restrict (not totally stop) foods which are high in oxalate like beans, legumes, dark green leaves, egg plant, spinach, beets, chocolates and fruit cake. Avoid Vitamin C as its metabolism produces oxalates in the body.
For calcium stones you need to restrict packaged food items rich in sugars and dairy products. For uric acid stones you need to restrict protein intake.
Hope this helps.
Based on reading online about purines in food and uric acid, there are a number of foods my husband likes to eat that have high purines and will then contribute to high uric acid. He is now trying to avoid certain fish and shellfish like crab and shrimp. I also read that vegetables like asparagus, mushrooms and spinach are high in purines.
Hope between his Dr and a dietician he can come up with some solutions, so the kidney stone attacks do not return. Again, Thanks for your comments.
there is nothing to worry about. Drink plenty of fluids and water everyday. Kidney stones are of four types: calcium oxalate stones, struvite stones, uric acid stones or cystine stones. Potassium citrate is used for the treatment of stones. Treatment modes include oral medicines, Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithrotripsy (ESWL), uteroscopic stone removal and percutaneous nephrolithotomy. Please discuss these treatment options with your urologist.
I am prone to getting stones and have been drinking a bottle of 11 oz to try to lose weight ..i have been having a dull pain in my side for about a wk now and am wondering if I should continue to drink this ...my doctor gve me a list of foods to avoid and milk was one of the things to drink just so its low fat milk which i see on the bottle it says that ...
Interesting. I have been told I'm anemic for some time now but did not realize I had kidney stones until a couple years ago when I was struck by a painful one that put me in the emergency room.
I wonder if there is a correlation but my doctor's believe the anemia is due to heavy menstrual bleeding and kidney stones are due to not enough fluids. When I had my original stone, I may not have had enough fluids but generally I drink quite a bit of water throughout the day.
I have had people say that drinking freshly squeezed lemon juice with water will help to dissolve kidney stones. I do drink lots of water and water with fresh lemon juice (freshly squeezed) and do notice that when I get kidney pain and start to drink the lemon water, I do notice more sediment in the urine. A kidney stone can be as small as a grain of sand.
20 years ago when my stone was surgically removed, I was told to avoid all dairy, but since then the information has changed.
Nausea, vomiting, headaches, and diarrhea regularly.
I had my first kidney stone send me to the ER in April (5mm). I don't know if it actually passed because there was no evidence, but the pain did stop after 2 weeks. Through testing in June, I know that I have 5 small stones in my left kidney and the kidney has hydroneph... can't remember the word at the moment, but it means enlarged/swollen. My uric acid (1480) and oxaclic acid levels were high. I am now on allopurinol (sp? the bottle is not with me).
s all connected to the kidney stones since I just happen to have had the kidney stone pain not long after the onset of these symptoms. What suprises me, is that because I'm Lactose intolerant, I can't see how I can be taking in much calcium anyway, since my milk costs 250% of the price of regular milk.
NEVER in my LIFE have i been this constipated!!!!! omgosh i dont even know what to do . Stoole softener cant fix this! My butt is bleeding & feels like kidney stones coming out my ***!!
You could ask your doc if you're a candidate for a medication such as Actigal, but it may or may not work to dissolve the stones. There is a procedure in which the stones can be 'blasted' much as they do kidney stones, but it isn't in use much since docs feels it's easier to remove the gallbladder.
Passing a stone can cause a heck of a lot of problems.
Surgical therapy for stones is reserved, if the stones do not pass and are causing an obstruction to flow of urine or if they cause repeated infections or if they are too large to pass through. So, besides adopting lifestyle measures and taking medications, monitoring may be essential to see for any changes in size. Discuss the possibilities with your consulting doctor.
Hope this helped and do keep us posted.
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