Kidney stones - which food?

Urine incur in the kidneys. Kidneys extract from the body harmful substances that occur when matter changes. Harmful substances are mainly uric acid and urea itself. In a minute through the kidney passes 1 - 1.5 lit. of blood, which they clear, so that the harmful substances are separated, and all the others are going back into the bloodstream.

Kidney stones, which usually consist of calcium, are obstacles that can cause inflammation and damage.
Kidneys are important for filtration of waste products from the blood. Kidney stones have about 10% of all men and 3% of women.
It is recommended to eat foods rich with potassium (dried apricots, yogurt, orange juice), calcium (non fat dairy products, almonds, sardines), drink plenty of water and eat less protein of animal origin.

Kidney stone more often occurred in children

When you think of kidney stones children are not what first fall in mind. But doctors say that the number of children with this painful condition is increasing and this could represent one of the more ominous consequences of the epidemic of obesity.

However, experts say they are confident that there are more and more children with kidney stones, despite numbers.

Hope for kidney stone - Probiotic

Doctors have encountered bacteria that could be used as a mean against kidney stones.

To treat patients with bacteria could be an effective way of reducing the risk of often developing painful kidney stones, a study claims.


People who naturally in the body contain the bacterium Oxalobacter formigen have 70% less chance to develop a stone.
Experts from the University of Boston in the United States explore the possibility of using bacteria as "probiotic" treatment. Kidney stone is a hard lump of waste constituents who exist in urine. Otherwise, it may be the size of grains of sand and the size of pearls. Surface can be smooth or jagged and are usually yellow or brown.

Once a kidney stone is formed, it can travel through other parts of the urinary system which can slow the flow of urine, cause infection, severe pain and even kidney failure.

They occurred mostly in persons between the ages of 20 to 40. 80% of kidney stones are composed of substances called calcium oxalate.

Testing phase

Oxalobacter formigen destroys oxalate in the intestinal system and is present in large numbers at the adult population.


The team from Boston compared 247 patients containing a kidney stone of the recurrence of calcium oxalates to 259 patients with no history of this condition.
It was discovered that only 17% of people with stone was colonized with Oxalobacter formigenom compared to 38% of healthy patients.
- Our results are potentially clinically important - said Professor David Kaufman, and conclude - The ability to use bacteria as a probiotic is still in the testing phase.

Kidney stone removed-coconut size

Doctors in the Hungarian city of Debrecen removed yesterday a kidney stone of 17 centimeters in diameter from a patient Sandor Sarkadiju, which is approximately the size of coconut.

Mr. Sardaki was urgently operated after the X-rey image found that he carries the giant kidney stone. Removal of the stone of 1.25 kilograms passed by with no problems, Daily Mail writes.
The size of kidney stones varies; they may be small as a grain of sand or the size of golf balls, but the stone of coconut size so far no one has yet seen. Most kidney stones after laser surgery pass through the body within a few hours or days. Doctors recommend patients to drink large quantities of liquids in order to expedite the process, and sometimes they propose a special way of eating. Extra large kidney stones have to be surgical removed.