Not many people known that once a kidney stones forms, there will be 50% chance exists that a second kidney stones will form again within 5 to 7 years in the absence of treatment. Many of this “back to back” kidney stones formation held as a impact of their own bad lifestyle. There for lot of people or medical community try to find out more supporting evidence between the chance to get troubled by kidney stones twice in a row and healthy lifestyle.
This issue became more famous recently, and bring many scientist and researchers back to their lab or do more research. One of these researches is their enrolled man with recurrent calcium oxalate kidney stones and hypercalciuria. The volunteers randomly assigning to a take low-calcium diet (around 400 mg per day) or taken a diet with normal calcium consumption (around 1,200 mg per day), low animal protein (around 52 grams per day) and low salt (around 2,900 mg per day). Both groups consumed 2 to 3 litters of water per day.
The next step is to take a urine sample from these two different groups and analyse it in laboratory. In both groups, urine calcium levels fell significantly, but urine oxalate excretion increased in the low-calcium-diet group. After 5 years, 12 of the 60 men on the diet with normal calcium, low animal protein, and low salt had recurrent kidney stones compared with 23 of 60 men on the low-calcium diet. Relatively their risk shown 0.49; 95% confidence interval, 0.24 — 0.98; P = 0.04.
Based on this research, researcher came with a suggestion to prevent recurrent calcium oxalate kidney stones. They assure and encourage male patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria to take a diet with ample amounts of calcium and reduced amounts of animal protein and salt is superior to a low-calcium diet, as it proven to be working in decreasing their chance to get another kidney stones in the future.
Compile and re-written based on article by Nancy Risser, MN, RNA ANP and Mary Murphy, CPNP PhD
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