Does drinking beer help reduce the occurence of kidney stones?
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No. There is no such medical evidence to prove this
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Drinking urine is a concept that is hard for most people to swallow, but its claimed healing abilities may make this ancient practice worth a try. From canker sores to cancer, there is nothing that its advocates claim it will not cure. Urine is said to be effective against the flu, the common cold, fever, broken bones, toothaches, dry skin, psoriasis and all other skin problems. It is said to deter aging and be helpful against AIDS, cancer, allergies, animal bites, asthma, heart disease, hypertension, burns, fatigue, infertility, baldness, insomnia, gangrene, chicken pox, tuberculosis, and a countless number of other diseases and disorders.\n    Urine may provide energy, maintain youth, and make skin and hair beautiful. With such wondrous properties, it is amazing that science developed new medicines when a key to good health was already in the bottle, so to speak. Everyone is a walking pharmacopoeia.\n    The first world conference on auto-urine therapy was held in February of 1996 in Panjim, India. It drew about 600 delegates from nations around the world. The numerous applications of urine were discussed, including use in nose-, ear-, and eye-drops, as well as ingestion and external massage application. \n    For thousands of years, several cultures included urine therapy, also known as uropathy or urotherapy, for all manners of disease and injury. Uropathy has been recorded in Egyptian medical texts and in ancient Chinese medical documents. The Aztec civilization also used urine to heal wounds while Hindu practices noted the benefits of drinking one’s own urine. Urine therapy may have been referenced in the Bible: “Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well.” (Proverbs 5:15).
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Hi Stony.  I am a chronic stone sufferer.  There is a lot of research on the role of citrate in the prevention of the most common types of stones - calcium oxalate stones.  I did a search of the medical literature on Pubmed and found a 1996 study in the Journal of Urology that looked at the use of lemon juice as a source of daily citrate.  This study found significant benefits to the use of 4 ounces of reconstituted lemon juice diluted in 2 liters of water and consumed each day.\n\nA more recent 2002 Italian study found that grapefruit juice also increased citrate levels in the urine.  However, it also found an increase in calcium and magnesium in the urine.  The researchers concluded that fruit juices may be helpful, but not if they contain sugar which can increase urinary calcium levels.\n\nPotassium Citrate supplements (I use these) are a well recognized therapy for reducing the risk of stone formation.  Additionally, calcium supplements (contrary to what seems 'logical'), especially calcium citrate, are also a good idea.  The increase in dietary calcium is thought to reduce the absorption of oxalates from the gut.  It is actually the oxalates in the urine (not calcium) that drive the formation of calcium oxalate stones.\n\nMagnesium supplements (again as magnesium citrate) are helpful too.\n\nLastly, vitamin B6 supplementation has be shown to also be beneficial.\n\nOne last thought.  After more than 25 years of recurring stones, last year (with the help of a great Naturpathic Physician) I was able to identify the underlying cause.  I have a condition called Celiac Disease.  This is a common autoimmune disease that damages the small intestine and causes excessive absorption of oxalates (and thus the chronic stones).  It is caused by an allergic reaction to the proteins in wheat, rye and barley called glutens/gliadins.  One person in every 100 is estimated to have Celiac Disease.  Sadly, it is only diagnosed in 1 in 3500 people in the U.S. (so 97% of the people with it go undiagnosed).  Medical doctors are very unaware of this common condition - partly because the 'common presenting symptoms' they are taught in medical school are actually NOT the most common symptoms of Celiac Disease.  It may be a good idea for you to get tested.  You may need to educate yourself about it, again because the M.D.s are not educated about it.  You can find a large series of review papers on it at the medical journal "Gastroenterology" in their April 2005 supplement.  These are available on the net.\n\nHope this is helpful to you.  Best wishes and good luck.
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As far as I know, it should help. Very healthy to drink.
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A theory exist that the acids found in natural apple cider vinegar are beneficial in breaking up kidney stones and gallstones, by softening or dissolving them.
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I suspect that the calcium in hard water becomes kidney stones. Buy a calciun suppliment if you need more.
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It could be. If you have any doubts, then do a kidney cleanse.\n\nHave you already gone through the full kidney and colon cleansing processes?\n\n        Kidney cleanse is any procedure that involves drinking a huge amount of liquid, and taking care what you are eating. Just a better diet with more water can be enough! But, also any form of bowel cleansing will also help kidneys! The Master Cleanse Lemonade Diet  is also a Kidney cleanse, juice fasting is also a kidney cleanse, and any other form of fasting that incorporates a lot of liquids, will in the same time clean a kidney. Do you need special herbs? Only if you have acute lower back pain, clear symptom of Kidney stones (sharp glass like crystals, made of phosphoric acid, or sometimes may include other acids). In special occasions, you can get a kidney stone crystallized in less then a few days !!! To melt a stone/stones, you may need a few weeks, or one day with the Watermelon Cleanse.\n\n            Recipes for Kidney Cleanse:\n            Herbal Kidney Clease\n            Watermelon Cleanse\n            Water Cure\n            More on kidney cleanse herbs\n\n        Herbal Kidney Cleanse  Designed by Dr. Hulda Clark from her book "The Cure for All Disease", explains in detail how to cleanse the kidneys, and her cleansing program will get rid of most if not all the stones, WITHOUT surgery.\n        Ingredients:\n\n            1/2 cup dried Hydrangea root\n            1/2 cup Gravel root\n            1/2 cup Marshmallow root\n            4 bunches of fresh parsley\n            Goldenrod tincture (leave this out of the recipe if you are allergic to it)\n            Ginger Capsules\n            Uva Ursi capsules\n            Vegetable glycerine\n            Vitamin B6 250mg\n            Magnesium oxide 300mg or 1/4 cup Green Drink Beverage\n\n        Measure ¼ cup of each root and set them to soak, Together in 10 cups of cold tap water, using a non-metal container and a non-metal lid (a dinner plate will do).  After four hours (or over night),    bring liquid with soaked herbs to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.  Drink a ¼ cup as soon as it is cool enough.  Pour the rest in through a bamboo or plastic strainer into a sterile pint jar (glass) and several freezable containers.  Refrigerate the glass jar.\n        Find fresh parsley at a grocery store that does not spray its produce (ask the owner). Boil the fresh parsley, after rinsing, in 1 quart of water for 3 minutes.  Strain out the liquid, then drink ¼ cup when cool enough.  Refrigerate a pint and freeze 1 pint.  Put the cooked parsley in your compost bucket.\n        Dose:  each morning, pour together ¾ cup of the root mixture and ½ cup parsley water, filling a large mug.  Add 20 drops of goldenrod tincture and 1 tbs. of glycerin.\n\n        Drink this mixture in divided doses throughout the day. Keep cold. Do not drink it all at once or you will get a stomach ache and feel pressure in the bladder. If your stomach is very sensitive, start on half this dose.\n\n        Save the roots after the first boiling, storing them in the freezer. After 13 days when your supply runs low, boil the same roots a second time, but add only 6 cups water and simmer only 10 minutes. This will last another 8 days, for a total of three weeks. You may cook the roots a third time if you wish, but the recipe gets less potent. If your problem is severe, only cook them twice.\n        After three weeks, repeat with fresh herbs. You need to do the kidney cleanse for six weeks to get good results, longer for severe problems.\n\n        Also take:\n\n            Ginger capsules: one with each meal (3/day).\n            Uva Ursi capsules: one with breakfast and two with supper\n            Vitamin B6 (250mg): one per day\n            Magnesium oxide (300mg): one a day\n\n        Take these supplements just before your meal to avoid burping.\n\n        Some notes on this recipe: this herbal tea, as well as the parsley, can easily spo
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Kidney stones, also known as nephrolithiases, urolithiases or renal calculi, are solid accretions (crystals) of dissolved minerals in urine found inside the kidneys or ureters. They vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a grapefruit. Kidney stones typically leave the body in the urine stream; if they grow relatively large before passing (on the order of millimeters), obstruction of a ureter and distention with urine can cause severe pain most commonly felt in the flank, lower abdomen and groin. Kidney stones are unrelated to gallstones.
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See a nephrologist. Cranberries are very good for kidneys. Also all the B-vitamins.
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you need to see a doc. I am not gonna preach about drinking and all but yeah sounds like it is from that. Could be an infection or stones although I think kidney stones would hurt way more! If there is an infection sometimes cranberries or the juice can help clear things up. However, you sound past the help of cranberries.
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If you have any doubys about the efficiency of your kidneys, then a kidney cleanse will work wonders, and is not dangerous, so there is nothing to lose.\n\nHave you already gone through the full kidney and colon cleansing processes?\n\n        Kidney cleanse is any procedure that involves drinking a huge amount of liquid, and taking care what you are eating. Just a better diet with more water can be enough! But, also any form of bowel cleansing will also help kidneys! The Master Cleanse Lemonade Diet  is also a Kidney cleanse, juice fasting is also a kidney cleanse, and any other form of fasting that incorporates a lot of liquids, will in the same time clean a kidney. Do you need special herbs? Only if you have acute lower back pain, clear symptom of Kidney stones (sharp glass like crystals, made of phosphoric acid, or sometimes may include other acids). In special occasions, you can get a kidney stone crystallized in less then a few days !!! To melt a stone/stones, you may need a few weeks, or one day with the Watermelon Cleanse.\n\n            Recipes for Kidney Cleanse:\n            Herbal Kidney Clease\n            Watermelon Cleanse\n            Water Cure\n            More on kidney cleanse herbs\n\n        Herbal Kidney Cleanse  Designed by Dr. Hulda Clark from her book "The Cure for All Disease", explains in detail how to cleanse the kidneys, and her cleansing program will get rid of most if not all the stones, WITHOUT surgery.\n        Ingredients:\n\n            1/2 cup dried Hydrangea root\n            1/2 cup Gravel root\n            1/2 cup Marshmallow root\n            4 bunches of fresh parsley\n            Goldenrod tincture (leave this out of the recipe if you are allergic to it)\n            Ginger Capsules\n            Uva Ursi capsules\n            Vegetable glycerine\n            Vitamin B6 250mg\n            Magnesium oxide 300mg or 1/4 cup Green Drink Beverage\n\n        Measure ¼ cup of each root and set them to soak, Together in 10 cups of cold tap water, using a non-metal container and a non-metal lid (a dinner plate will do).  After four hours (or over night),    bring liquid with soaked herbs to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.  Drink a ¼ cup as soon as it is cool enough.  Pour the rest in through a bamboo or plastic strainer into a sterile pint jar (glass) and several freezable containers.  Refrigerate the glass jar.\n        Find fresh parsley at a grocery store that does not spray its produce (ask the owner). Boil the fresh parsley, after rinsing, in 1 quart of water for 3 minutes.  Strain out the liquid, then drink ¼ cup when cool enough.  Refrigerate a pint and freeze 1 pint.  Put the cooked parsley in your compost bucket.\n        Dose:  each morning, pour together ¾ cup of the root mixture and ½ cup parsley water, filling a large mug.  Add 20 drops of goldenrod tincture and 1 tbs. of glycerin.\n\n        Drink this mixture in divided doses throughout the day. Keep cold. Do not drink it all at once or you will get a stomach ache and feel pressure in the bladder. If your stomach is very sensitive, start on half this dose.\n\n        Save the roots after the first boiling, storing them in the freezer. After 13 days when your supply runs low, boil the same roots a second time, but add only 6 cups water and simmer only 10 minutes. This will last another 8 days, for a total of three weeks. You may cook the roots a third time if you wish, but the recipe gets less potent. If your problem is severe, only cook them twice.\n        After three weeks, repeat with fresh herbs. You need to do the kidney cleanse for six weeks to get good results, longer for severe problems.\n\n        Also take:\n\n            Ginger capsules: one with each meal (3/day).\n            Uva Ursi capsules: one with breakfast and two with supper\n            Vitamin B6 (250mg): one per day\n            Magnesium oxide (300mg): one a day\n\n        Take these supplements just before your meal to avoid burping.\n\n
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Kind of. You can get kidney stones in some areas depending on the quality of the water.
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Depends on your general condition.\nIf you are fit and kidneys are OK drinking excess water will get rid of toxins and give a luster to skin.\n Your digestive track  will be fine and you will have good motion if you drink water in early morning.\n\nIf your kidneys are not in a good shape please be cautious!!
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Yes he could. He should consult a urologist which is a Doctor who specializes in problems of urinary and reproductive system.  Worst case, he finds out what he's got and gets it cured.  Best case, he's needs to drink less beer and mor water but there's nothing wrong.
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There are four different kinds of kidney stones.  There are a number of things you can do to prevent them.\n\nDrink regular fluids. 10 to 12 good sized glasses each day. This 'flushes' the kidneys and urinary tubes. Kidney stones can make you more susceptible to urinary infections, drinking water helps prevent those infections.\n\nSpread fluid intake evenly throughout the day. You want the fluids to dilute the substances that produce the stones, e.g. calcium, from building up.\n\nDrink water. This should account for at least half of your fluid intake.\n\nDrink more fluids in hot weather- your body needs more to regulate it's temperature.\n\nLemonade, (real lemonade made with lemons) is very good for you. The citrate helps prevent infection.\n\nYour doctor may ask you to change your diet. It depends on which type of kidney stone you are prone to. Your doctor may ask you to cut back on meat, salt, foods high in oxalate such as chocolate, nuts or green leaf vegetables.\n\nYour doctor may prescribe medication to help kidney stone formation such as Allopurinol, pencillamine, diuretics, potassium citrate are just some of the drugs that can help, but drug type will depend on the type of stone or underlying condition.\n\nIf you have the most common type of stones, calcium stones, avoid foods high in calcium and foods rich in oxylates such as cola, chocolate, tea, leafy vegetables, and peanuts.\n\nIf you have uric acid stones a diet low in animal proteins is recommended, particularly poultry.  Also avoid red wine.\n\nI hope this information and these websites are helpful to you.
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Cranberries, dried or fresh, and cranberry juice will do wonders for kidney infections or kidney stones. Most importantly, you need to be sure to drink lots of water and juices. Stay away from caffeine, too!\n\nThe absolute best thing you can do, though, is call your doctor and get a professional recommendation based on your own medical history.
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not good for either.  Best thing for kidney stones is plenty of clear fluids NOT CARBONATED.  Gallstones....ewww.  Once you get them, its hard to get rid of them....you don't "pass" them like you would a kidney stone, and the more greasy or oily foods you eat, the worse they are.  More than likely, you'll need to get your gall bladder out.