Guest guest Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Deanna, One can drink corn silk tea and other herbal teas for kidney stones. However, these are not substitutes for drinking adequate amounts of water to prevent them in the first place. GB Kidney Stones A few yrs. ago I had one of those horrible stone things in my kidney duct and it was trying to escape. Ouch ! The MRI showed it to be almost microscopic but the pain was at least a 9.. The urologist told me that 90+ % of all kidney stones are composed of calcium. Ugly, little sharp, barbed,crystalized things that sure hurt. Blood tests show that some people have too much calcium deposits in their blood and it is sluffed off into the kidneys. If one is not drinking enough water the nasty barbed stones get stuck in the kidney ducts instead of being passed through. How's that for a medical description? LOL Any medical person reading this please advise if I do not have this info correct. Anyway the doctor advised taking a potassium supplement, no calcium sup., and lots of water. Believe me I do not fail to follow his advise and it has worked for me. Smiles and hugs Deanna Gurubandhu If you cannot see God in all, You cannot see God at all. Yogi Bhajan Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 My husband passed a big kidney stone, the first in years. It is from the vegan diet. His stones are oxylate-based and he is supposed to limit oxylates to 50 mg a day. The fruits and veggies he eats in one day have at least 1000 mg of oxylates in them, which is now causing kidney stones. I don't want him to have to quit the diet. Any ideas? Maryann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 > My husband passed a big kidney stone, the first in years. It is from > the vegan diet. His stones are oxylate-based and he is supposed to > limit oxylates to 50 mg a day. The fruits and veggies he eats in one > day have at least 1000 mg of oxylates in them, which is now causing > kidney stones. I don't want him to have to quit the diet. Any ideas? Sorry to say that this isn't a medical group, but some might have anecdotal information to help out. The question of diet and kidney stones it seems is a bit controversial - why is everything controversial? [sigh} - such as info below in this link: http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=1945 & Section=VITAMINS If you google on kidney stones diet (or some such) there are some interesting discussions on it, including one by a character who heard his doc's opinion that vit C was causing them and heralded that as a great excuse not to eat his veggies anymore! [ tee hee]. Good luck - sounds as if your dh has had the problem before, right? Was he always vegan? Just curious. Love, Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 He had kidney stones a lot when we ate vegan before. The doctor put him on a diet low in calcium/oxylates, and the problem went away. He didn't have a kidney stones in at least ten years until he started Eat to Live two weeks ago. He said he's going to increase his water and his magnesium to see if that helps, as he read that online today. I will lhave him check out the link you provided. Thanks! Maryann , " Pat " <drpatsant wrote: > Sorry to say that this isn't a medical group, but some might have anecdotal > information to help out. The question of diet and kidney stones it seems > is a bit controversial - why is everything controversial? [sigh} - such as > info below in this link: > http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm? NewsID=1945 & Section=VITAMINS > > If you google on kidney stones diet (or some such) there are some interesting > discussions on it, including one by a character who heard his doc's > opinion that vit C was causing them and heralded that as a great excuse > not to eat his veggies anymore! [ tee hee]. Good luck - sounds as if your > dh has had the problem before, right? Was he always vegan? Just curious. > > Love, Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 > He had kidney stones a lot when we ate vegan before. The doctor put > him on a diet low in calcium/oxylates, and the problem went away. He > didn't have a kidney stones in at least ten years until he started > Eat to Live two weeks ago. Oh sheeesh, that is bad news! I'm sorry that it worked out like that (no pun intended). I didn't know kidney stones developed so quickly, though. Shows what I know about medicine. > He said he's going to increase his water and his magnesium to see if > that helps, as he read that online today. Yes, I read that too - especially useful in the summer - the water part anyway, I don't know about the rest. I was looking in various books I have about kidney stones and this kind of diet, but didn't have any luck. Let us know if you find out anything useful, okay? > I will lhave him check out the link you provided. Oh that one more or less said that vit C wasn't the culprit (I think). But there are lots of other sites. As I say, a google search will do it until you've read more about kidney stones than anyone wants to know, including sufferers Best to your dh - and of course to yourself on the diet. Enjoying it? Love, Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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