Categories: Medicine

How to eat with kidney stones

4 recommendations on nutrition

If the urine a lot of certain salts, they fall out of it in the sediment, forming kidney stones. This is a consequence of metabolic disorders, infectious and other diseases of the urinary system.

Stones can move into the ureter, causing attacks of pain (renal colic) and the appearance of blood in the urine.

Sometimes the disease is hidden, and its first signs appear when the stone is large. At this time, the patient noted a dull vague pain in the lumbar region. Most often when a small stone disease is manifested attacks of renal colic, and in between bouts of dull pain, changes in urine, discharge of stones and sand.

When it is necessary to consult a doctor

The bouts of severe pain that usually begins in the lower back and spreads to the groin.

When it is necessary to address urgently to the doctor

If the urine appeared blood.

Advice on diet to prevent the formation of kidney stones

Drink at least 6 glasses of water.

If the stones are oxalate stones, restrict consumption of foods with oxalates: beets, celery, cucumbers, grapefruit, parsley, rhubarb, spinach, strawberries, nuts, chocolate, tea. Eat food rich in calcium, potassium, magnesium and vitamin B6.

If the stones from uric acid, eat less foods rich in purines: red meat, liver, fish, shellfish, cheese, beans, cauliflower, peas, coffee. Daily take vitamin B6.

Useful every day to drink tea from corn silk and couch grass.

© 2017, paradox. All rights reserved.

paradox

Share
Published by
paradox
Tags: kidneystones

Recent Posts

Palestinians chase away German diplomat (VIDEOS)

The German ambassador to the Palestinian Authority has been hounded by an angry mob and…

6 hours ago

White House mulls Russian uranium ban – Bloomberg

The Biden administration is considering a ban on enriched uranium from Russia using the president’s…

15 hours ago

Pro-Palestine protesters arrested at Texas university (VIDEOS)

State troopers used pepper spray and stun grenades as they arrested dozens of pro-Palestine protesters…

1 day ago

Ukraine running out of troops for US to train – WaPo

The number and frequency of Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in US bases in Western Europe has dropped…

1 day ago

Europeans won’t ‘go die for Donbass’ – Borrell

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has insisted that member states don’t want their citizens…

2 days ago

‘No one’ willing to join Ukrainian army – soldier

Resistance to the continued military draft in Ukraine has taken some extreme forms, a soldier…

2 days ago