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2. The #1 Sign of Kidney Stones Most People Miss ... - AOL

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   Treatments depend on the patient, the type of kidney stone and several other factors. These include: Surgical intervention. Some patients may need surgery to remove kidney stones or to help them pass.

3. What causes kidney stones? What does kidney stone pain ... - AOL

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   A kidney stone is a hard object, which can be as small as a grain of salt or as big as a golf ball, made from chemicals—calcium oxalate, uric acid, struvite, and cystine—found in our urine ...

4. Kidney stone disease - Wikipedia

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   Kidney stone disease, also known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis, is a crystallopathy where a solid piece of material (renal calculus) develops in the urinary tract. [2] Renal calculi typically form in the kidney and leave the body in the urine stream. [2] A small calculus may pass without causing symptoms. [2]

5. Eating More Protein to Lose Weight? Avoid These 6 Common Mistakes

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   Here's how to avoid them. ... While a 2023 study didn’t find that high protein diets specifically triggered kidney stones or other diseases, authors did call for longer-term data.

6. Alkali citrate - Wikipedia

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   Alkaline citrates are used to prevent recurrent calcium stone formation. [13] [14] [15] [5] This is one of the major types of kidney stones. [16] [17] The citrate salts can increase urine citrate, which binds with urine calcium, reduces supersaturation of calcium salts, and inhibits crystal formation. [18] [8] This helps prevent kidney stones ...

7. Citric acid/potassium-sodium citrate - Wikipedia

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   Increasing the amount of citrate in the blood is also important for kidney stone prevention because citrate creates chemical complexes with calcium, preventing nucleation and agglomeration with oxalate that leads to kidney stones. [2] Because of these two mechanisms of treatment, it can be used to treat both calcium oxalate and uric acid kidney ...

8. More kids are getting kidney stones, and doctors don ... - AOL

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   Kidney stones are caused by high levels of the minerals calcium, oxalate, and phosphorus in urine.These minerals are normally found in urine and do not cause problems at low levels. However ...

9. Ureteral stent - Wikipedia

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   There is a kidney stone in the pyelum of the lower pole of the kidney (higher red arrow) and one in the ureter beside the stent (lower red arrow). Ureteral stents are used to ensure the openness of a ureter, which may be compromised, for example, by a kidney stone or a procedure. This method is sometimes used as a temporary measure, to prevent ...