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
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.
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