6 Easy Ways to Prevent Kidney Stones

2015-09-08 02:30

Kidney stones occur on people around the world more and more commonly. It is very important that we need to take care of daily life to prevent kidney stones. Kidney stones are crystals of calcium and acids. The most common kidney stones consist of Calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. Here we will introduce 6 easy ways to prevent kidney stones in daily life.

Avoid much Sweating

When we are in hot weather or do some sports, we may sweat a lot. In this situation, our urine is little with less feeling of urination. Because fluids in body are secreted by sweating. It contributes to kidney stones with excessive oxalic acid or phosphorus acid building up in kidney or urinary tract. Hence, it is suggested to drink more water in daily life to produce more urine, in this way, excessive acid in body can get removed through urine. When you do exercise, remember to have enough water.

Eat food low in oxalate

Our daily food can contain much oxalate, and if we eat too much, combination of oxalate and calcium may be at the higher risk. The below food are high in oxalate:

peanuts, rhubarb, spinach, beets, chocolate and sweet potatoes. These should be controlled within proper amount, can not be eat too much everyday.

Do not follow low calcium diet

Having a low calcium diet is wrong, and many people or doctors may think just like low oxalate food, people should avoid much calcium intake. However, it is very wrong. Low calcium diet can increase the risk of kidney stones. What we should do is prevent combination of high calcium and high oxalate food together.

Take doctor’s advice

If you have one kidney stone, it is very important that you should follow doctor‘s advice like get medical treatment and a healthy diet in daily life, which can help alleviate kidney stones and prevent reoccurring. Otherwise, kidney stones will reoccur, even develop into kidney disease.

Lemonade

Citrate is rich in lemonade, which is helpful for preventing kidney stones and growth of kidney stones. But sugar is bad can increase risk of kidney stones, thus we should have sugar free lemonade in daily life.

Limit food high in purines

High-purine foods such as red meat, organ meats, and shellfish, purines can produce urine acid in our body. Thus, we should limit rich purine food. And vegetables and fruits can be good. In addition, alcohol should be limited strictly which can increase uric acid in blood.

The above can be very beneficial for people to prevent kidney stones in daily life, which are suggested for us to follow. If you have any question or any doubt, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctors. Reply will be given very fast for you.

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