How to prevent kidney calculi? Yunnan Chinese medicine experts came to answer in detail.

Kidney calculi, everyone must have heard of it. Why do people suffer from kidney calculi? I heard that kidney calculi will grow again after he leaves the hospital. What's the harm of stones? Can kidney calculi be prevented? Zhang Chunyan, an expert in nephrology of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is invited to answer this issue of Zhang Xiaokong.

Xiao Zhang: Please tell us about the treatment of kidney calculi in our department.

Zhang Chunyan: At present, many kidney calculi patients are hospitalized, and a few of them have grown up after being discharged from kidney calculi. Some patients have repeated stones, resulting in impaired renal function and renal failure.

Zhang Xiao: Can kidney calculi prevent it?

Zhang Chunyan: In order to prevent stones from forming, we need to do the following six things.

1. Drink more water.

Adults drink more than 2000 ml of boiled water every day. Especially when the weather is hot and sweaty, it is necessary to increase the amount of drinking water. But don't drink untreated mountain spring water directly, because untreated mountain spring water contains a lot of calcium, such as oxalate and urate, which is easy to form stones. When the human body is short of water, urine is concentrated, which is easy to cause stones. You can also take vitamin B6, which can reduce the excretion of oxalate in urine. Or use Lysimachia christinae, catnip, plantain, etc. Not tea.

2. light diet

Don't eat too much protein and salt; Encourage eating more high-fiber foods. High-protein diet will increase uric acid and calcium in the body, reduce PH value, and easily deposit to form stones; High fiber diet can reduce urinary calcium; If you eat too much salt, there will be more sodium, which will increase urinary calcium and increase the probability of stone formation. Especially eat less tofu and pickled products, eat less big fish and big meat.

3. Timely relieve urinary tract obstruction.

Patients with urinary tract obstruction caused by urethral stricture and benign prostatic hyperplasia should remove the obstruction in time, otherwise urine will easily form stones.

4. Actively treat urinary tract infection.

Infectious stones are related to close-range infection, and such stones are more likely to block the urinary tract, leading to severe hydronephrosis.

5. Eat less foods with more purines.

Such as meat, seafood, animal offal, all kinds of broth, alcohol and so on. You can take orally drugs to alkalize urine, such as citric acid mixture or sodium bicarbonate, and eat more alkaline food.

6. kidney calculi patients should reduce the sunshine time.

Ultraviolet rays increase the formation of vitamin D and the absorption of calcium, and increase the chance of stone formation.

7. Annual physical examination

In particular, people with a history of stones should have a physical examination at least once every six months. Many patients think that everything will be all right after stone removal. When they suffered from renal colic, they found that kidney calculi was very old and had to have another operation. Postoperative re-examination should be active, because the scar formation at the stone site and surgical site is more likely to cause urine deposition and re-form stones.

Therefore, we should actively prevent the formation of kidney calculi and protect our kidneys.

Editor: Wu