How To Prevent Kidney Stones

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• 00:04- Some of the common risk factors
• 00:06for kidney stones include:
• 00:07dehydration, a high salt diet,
• 00:10not enough calcium in your diet.
• 00:12One of the most common misconceptions
• 00:14is because most kidney stones are calcium
• 00:16that dietary calcium supplements
• 00:19are a risk factor for kidney stones
• 00:22and that's actually contrary to the evidence.
• 00:24Prevention of kidney stones follows two guidelines.
• 00:27One is to dilute the urine with as much fluid as possible
• 00:30and the other is to remove the
• 00:31constitutes that form the kidney stones
• 00:34and one of the biggest risk factors for
• 00:36elevated urine calcium levels is not,
• 00:39in fact, dietary calcium but is dietary sodium.
• 00:43Often, patients will Google 'kidney stone diets'
• 00:46and it's very dogmatic about avoiding oxalates.
• 00:49However, one of the strategies that may be easier to follow
• 00:53would be to increase your dietary calcium.