A groundbreaking medical procedure for those with kidney stones will soon be offered at the University of Washington after more than two decades of research.
These stories scare me! I’ve fortunately not had to deal with them, but are there dietary things that can be done to reduce the chance, or is it genetic and you’re just stuck with them?
Yes, and no… My Kidney stone, and later introduction to “Gout”, or in my case pseudo Gout were calcium not uric acid related. Generally speaking Kidney Stones/Gout are attributed to dietary lifestyle.
It appears that my genetics/bloodline has a weird thing where around the mid 20’s we get Kidney Stones and/or Gout. My father had a single incident of Kidney stone when he was in his mid 20’s. I have a couple uncles who also did. I’m not 100% sure on them also having ‘Gout’. At any rate, I had this pseudo gout a handful of times over the next couple years, but so far only the single kidney stone.
These stories scare me! I’ve fortunately not had to deal with them, but are there dietary things that can be done to reduce the chance, or is it genetic and you’re just stuck with them?
Yes, and no… My Kidney stone, and later introduction to “Gout”, or in my case pseudo Gout were calcium not uric acid related. Generally speaking Kidney Stones/Gout are attributed to dietary lifestyle.
It appears that my genetics/bloodline has a weird thing where around the mid 20’s we get Kidney Stones and/or Gout. My father had a single incident of Kidney stone when he was in his mid 20’s. I have a couple uncles who also did. I’m not 100% sure on them also having ‘Gout’. At any rate, I had this pseudo gout a handful of times over the next couple years, but so far only the single kidney stone.
Both! Best advice since there’s a couple different types of stones is to drink more water.