About Kidney Stones

Another medicine beside Captopril that could be used as an alternative drug when dealing with cystine kidney stones is Tiopronin. This drug could dissolving cystine in the urine and reduces the cystine level and further makes cystine kidney stones less likely to develop. Tiopronin can be found in the drugstore as Thiola.

Most paramedic use Tiopronin to prevent people with high levels of cystine in their urine from cystine kidney stones that likely to develop if the patient have high amount of cystine in their system. As a precaution treatment, Tiopronin is effective to prevent cystine kidney stones from forming, along with additional high amount of water intake would bring the best result.

Some side effects that most patient reported while using Tiopronin are joint pain, yellow skin colour and rash. It is also include reduced production of blood cells in the bone marrow and worse is kidney damage. There for you need the doctor guideline and stick to the drug reference for full information about it in order to avoid larger effect.

Comparing to Penicillamine (another medicine used to prevent cystine kidney stones), Tiopronin is less likely to cause side effects. But most patient usually try other option before using this medicine in order to prevent the forming of cystine kidney stones being, because not many patient is able to maintain high amount of fluids while taking this drug.

Compile and re-written based on article by Paul Lehnert
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