How do you get kidney stones

Kidney stones are a serious disease that can cause great damage to the gastrointestinal tract and require timely treatment. Therefore, patients with kidney stones should pay attention to their diet, drink more water and exercise more, which can alleviate the symptoms of kidney stones. Let us now understand the causes of kidney stones. We hope it will be helpful in treating and preventing kidney stones.

[Family Heredity] If one of your relatives has kidney stones, you will also be more likely to develop stones. Also, once you have your first kidney stone, it will be easier to get another one.

[Drinking too little water] If you don’t like to drink water, you will produce less urine, and the kidneys, ureters, and bladder are not flushed enough, so the stone particles cannot be taken away. Especially some people who need to work in high temperature environments, such as chefs, construction workers, or delivery boys, are more likely to develop stones than others.

[Dietary Problems] 1. If you like to eat food that is too salty or too sweet, the salt and sugar concentrations in your blood will be high, making it easier for crystals to precipitate. 2. Eating too much food containing oxalic acid, such as spinach, beets, celery, potatoes, etc. All vegetables that taste bitter when chewed contain a lot of oxalic acid. 3. Excessive calcium intake, such as excessive consumption of protein, nuts, dairy products or large amounts of oral calcium supplements. The interaction between oxalic acid and calcium leads to excessive precipitation of calcium oxalate crystal particles, which forms calcium oxalate stones.

[Too little exercise] Lazy people or those who do not exercise have a low basal metabolic rate and slow metabolism. The stone particles are not vibrated for a long time, and the probability of forming crystals and stones will increase significantly. In addition, obese people have higher uric acid concentrations in their blood, which increases the probability of uric acid stones forming.

[Obstructive Diseases] There are some diseases that cause urinary system obstruction: such as prostate hyperplasia, urethral stenosis, congenital duplication of kidney and ureter, congenital ureteropelvic junction stenosis, congenital sponge kidney, horseshoe kidney, polycystic kidney, etc.

[Gastrointestinal Surgery] People who have undergone digestive system surgery, such as cholecystectomy, gastrectomy and anastomosis, esophagogastric anastomosis, etc., will have abnormal absorption of calcium, water, and sugar after the operation (dumping syndrome) and are more likely to form stones.

If the stones can be expelled from the body as soon as possible, the damage of hydronephrosis to kidney function can be reduced. In fact, there is no need to be afraid of having stones! It is not a terrifying tumor, nor a chronic disease that is difficult to cure. It is just a blockage in our sewer. Just clear it up!