How to Prevent Kidney Stones

Sue: Hi! I'm Sue from Orlando. What can I do to prevent kidney stones?

Brent Miller: Sue, that's a great question. Forming kidney stones in your kidney is a chemistry reaction producing crystals, just like it would be in chemistry lab. So you want to do things that will prevent crystal formation. And for a person, who is never head a stone, that would be increasing your fluid intake, so you're urinating about two liters of urine a day and decreasing your salt intake, so that you don't form stones.

For people who had a kidney stone, it's very important to get some blood tests and urine tests to figure out exactly what causes a stone to prevent forming another stone.


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