Does having tomatoes and spinach in combination for lunch/dinner lead to stones in the kidney?
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no, well probabnly not... let me tell you I have had loads of kidney stones nad had surgery twice once on each side and laser surgery to blow themup 4 times!!! diet, I was told, has nothing to do with the type of stones I produced, I made calcium stones, for uric acid stones maybe the tomatos are a bit acidy but even so you would need to eat a hell of a lot of them to have this affect... I had no abnormalities in either blood or body chemistry but well had loads of stones they tailed off and stopped after I reached about 40... some people have them early some later in life... glad I dont get them any more is all I can say
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yes, the pain can radiate. The majority of the pain should be over the affected side, but its not uncommon for some to have pain on the opposite side.  If the pain is the same on both sides, you might want to be checked for additional kidney stones.
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Hi there. Try this one.\n1 . Celery (Details)  Known as in hindi, french, german...  \nCelery referred to as Ajwain ke Patte in Indian parlance is a very useful herb for the urinary system.It has a balanced mix of minerals, vitamins, nutrients, essential oils giving it a characteristic smell. Its leaves are to be included in the salad every day for people with tendency to have stone formation in the gall bladder or Kidney. The regular intake of the leaves will enhance the urine secretion frequeny as well as dilute any stone type formation if existing in the system.\nKeeping the liver clean and healthy is important also. \nMilk thistle is a herb which protects the liver and improves its function \n\nArtichoke - this herb has been clinically proven to help maintain a healthy liver and can help lower cholesterol levels\n\nA herbal tonic containing digestive bitters such as dandelion root and gentian helps to stimulate the liver and improve its function\n\nVitamin C and the B complex vitamins are essential for a healthy liver\n\nLecithin helps the liver to metabolise fats.\n\nHope this helps.\n\nCraig - Naturopath
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Yes it can and a kidney infection as well.  They hurt like hell too!
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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.
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No, definitely not. Kidney stones can be hereditary, or because of certain conditions related to nutrition, but not related to stress. Stress can cause hypertension, which in turn will affect you kidney function, but there is no relation to neuphrolithiasis
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long term damage can come from a diet of too much of these things. The caffeine and sugars or diet sweeteners are hard on kidneys and the salt (sodium) in large quantities will also effect the kidney function. If you drink at least 8 glasses of water a day you would avoid damage even if you ate a lot of chips and sodas as the water will continually flush the toxins from your kidneys and not allow any to buildup.
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I gave my husband a "Gallbladder Flush" a couple of months ago...and he has not had another attack since....\nYou need 1 liter of pure virgin olive oil, lemon juice, V-8 or pineapple juice.\n\nWhat to do:  Fast for at least 12-24 hours before the flush,( also it is best to do the flush when you don't have anywhere to be for a couple of days.)  Drink 1/4 cup of olive oil followed by 2 Tbs. of lemon juice.  Do that every 15 minutes until all the olive oil is gone.  If you feel sick at your stomach, drink a very small amount of V-8 or Pineapple juice, then continue as soon as you can.  When it is all gone, just lay down on your right side and just wait.  He had results in about 3 hours, but sometimes can take longer.\nHe had to go to the bathroom alot, and felt bad at the time, but he did pass alot of bile and gallstones.  His doctor said it was perfectly safe to do this, and he had not had any problems since.\nGood Luck
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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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Hello\n\nI hope you are feeling better soon.\n\nIt does not seem to be a major concern.  Just something to note if you are having urine tests while taking.\n\n- (cited below) While crystalluria has been observed in some intravenous rat studies, urinary crystals are not formed in the bladder, being present only after micturition and are not associated with nephrotoxicity. \n\n- (cited below) It is tempting to associate crystals with a risk of urolithiasis, but the majority of patients with a crystalluria do not have and will not develop kidney stones.\n \nGet better soon :-)
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I am an alternative medicinal therapist and an ex nurse and i can tell you that you DO have stones. Pain in the back is a common sign and so is blood in the urine. Stop worrying you don't have cancer. They can either dissolve them by sound waves or by tablets and they may remove them by an op(but they don't like to do this unless is becomes life threatening) You will get terrible pain if they try to leave the kidneys, so be prepared.If this happens get to the E R.\n\nGloria(BSYA)\ngloriashealth@btinternet.com
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how about dropping all salt intake??  avoid all salty foods.\nif symptoms persist, asked your doc about other higher end anti-biotics.\n\nTIP: AS MUCH AS POSIBLE, AVOID TETRACYCLINE DERIVED ANTIBIOTICS.  THEY CAN CAUSE RENAL DAMAGE. (NEPHROTOXIC)\nI SUGGEST YOU GO FOR A SECOND OPINION. \n\nJOMAR S.T. NDGM '96
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BERBERIS VULGARIS in Mother Tincture and NAT SULPH 200 are the ones i have most effective in dissolving kidney stones and getting rid of the tendency to Kidney stones in a humans Body .\nBoth of the above are Homeopathic Remedies.\nFor more details and to discuss it you are welcome to email me
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Kidney stone\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n(Redirected from Kidney stones)\nJump to: navigation, search\nKidney stone  \nUltrasonic instrument and kidney stone \nICD-10 N200 \nICD-9 592.0 \nDiseasesDB 11346 \nMedlinePlus 000458 \neMedicine med/1600 \nKidney 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 golf ball. 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.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Aetiology \n2 Symptoms \n3 Diagnosis & Investigation \n4 Treatment \n5 Secondary Prevention \n6 Famous sufferers \n7 See also \n8 References and notes \n9 External links \n \n\n\n[edit]\nAetiology\nConventional wisdom has held that consumption of too much calcium can aggravate the development of kidney stones, since the most common type of stone is calcium oxalate. However, strong evidence has accumulated demonstrating that low-calcium diets are associated with higher stone risk and vice-versa for the typical stone former.\n\nOther examples of kidney stones include struvite (magnesium, ammonium and phosphate), uric acid, calcium phosphate, or cystine (found only in people suffering from cystinuria). The formation of struvite stones is associated with the presence of urease splitting bacteria (Klebsiella, Serratia, Proteus, Providencia species) which can split urea into ammonia, most commonly Proteus mirabilis.\n\n[edit]\nSymptoms\nKidney stones are usually asymptomatic until they obstruct the flow of urine. Symptoms can include acute flank pain (renal colic), nausea and vomiting, restlessness, dull pain, hematuria, and possibly fever if infection is present. Acute renal colic is described as one of the worst types of pain that a patient can suffer from. But there are also people who have no symptoms until their urine turns bloody—this may be the first symptom of a kidney stone. The amount of blood may not be sufficient to be seen, and thus the first warning can be microscopic hematuria, when red blood cells are found in the microscopic study of a urine sample, during a routine medical test.\n\n[edit]\nDiagnosis & Investigation\nDiagnosis is usually made on the basis of the location and severity of the pain, which is typically colic in nature (comes and goes in spasmodic waves). Radiological imaging is used to confirm the diagnosis and a number of other tests can be undertaken to help establish both the possible cause and consequences of the stone. Ultrasound imaging is also useful as it will give details about the presence of hydronephrosis (swelling of the kidney - suggesting the stone is blocking the outflow of urine). It will also show the 10% of stones that do not have enough calcium to be seen on x-rays (radio-opaque stones).\n\nThe relatively dense calcium renders these stones radio-opaque and they can be detected by a traditional X-ray of the abdomen that includes Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder—KUB. This may be followed by an IVP (Intravenous Pyelogram)(IVU - IntraVenous Urogram is the same test by another name) which requires about 50ml of a special dye to be injected into the bloodstream that goes straight to the kidneys and helps outline any stone on a repeated X-ray. These can also be detected by a Retrograde pyelogram. Computed tomography, a specialized X-ray, is by far the most accurate diagnostic test for the detection of kidney stones.\n\nInvestigations typically carried out include:\n\nMicroscopic study of urine, which may show proteins, red blood cells, pus cells, cellular casts and crystals. \nCulture of a urine sample to exclude urine infection (either as a differential caus
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Protein contains nitrogen. When protein is broken down and digested, it creates ammonia from the nitrogen. Ammonia is toxic, so the body must get rid of it quickly. The kidneys convert the toxic ammonia into the less toxic urea, which then gets converted to urine.\n\nHigh protein just means the kidneys have to work harder. Many dieticians assume that working the kidneys harder could cause kidney disease. However, there have been no published studies which have shown high protein diets lead to kidney failure, even in competitive bodybuilders. You may want to also keep in mind that about 50% of protein ingested gets burned up as energy, so at some point with increased protein your $40 bottle of whey protein is doing nothing more than a couple of slices of bread.\n\nJohn
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WATER WATER WATER... and more WATER...\nCRANBERRY juice is NO GOOD.. It is only good for urinary track infection (UTI)... \nlimit calcium in your diet.. that means no 3-cheeze pizzas everyday..\n\nand if your stones are bigger than 5 mm i'd contact a urologist.. i had 4 stones of that size in my left kid and 6 of bigger size in my right.. it got to be very painfull even tough i wasnt passing any of them...\n\nso WATER WATER WATER and limited calcium..
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http://www.webmd.com/search/search_results/default.aspx?query=kidney+stones&sourceType=all\n\n\ngo here. it has a lot of info!