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Practical articles for understanding and caring for your urinary health.
Having kidney stones is one of the most intense and acute pains a person can experience, which is why people who suffer from them may faint.
Patients often contact us because they have gallstones that they want to treat with our Lit-Control® products, but this is not possible! Be careful because, although their name is very similar to "kidney stones" and both can be painful, their causes of formation, symptoms, and treatments are totally different, and we should not confuse them. Do you want to know what these differences are between these two types of stones? Keep reading to find out.
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world, with over 166 million 60 kg bags sold in 2021 according to Statista—that's 10 million tons! And its consumption continues to grow. But is coffee good for kidney stones? Keep reading to find out.
Let's move on to the third part of this post about the professionals who treat kidney stones. In the first post, we saw that the urologist is the specialist who practically treats kidney stones. And in the second, we saw that they cannot do this job without the support of other medical specialists such as the emergency physician, the nephrologist, the radiologist, or the anesthesiologist.
In the last post, we explained that the urologist is the specialist in kidney stones. And we gave you some recommendations on how to choose the best urologist possible. This time, we will talk about other healthcare professionals who also play an important role in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of kidney stones. If you want to prevent the formation of future kidney stones, this post is very interesting for you. Keep reading!
You have the typical symptoms of a kidney stone: intense lower back pain, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, fever, and chills, with difficulty urinating and even blood in your urine... You've read on Google that you might have a stone and you're wondering: What do I do now? Where do I go? Who can help me? Sounds familiar, right?
In this new post, we will continue to discuss the importance of calcium intake in another group of patients who also tend to form calcium oxalate kidney stones: patients with osteoporosis. If you have osteoporosis, keep reading because this information is for you.
If you are a patient with calcium oxalate kidney stones, you have probably read or been told that you should reduce (or eliminate) calcium from your diet. Makes sense, right? And one of the first foods affected is milk, but also yogurt, cheese, shrimp, and prawns.
