Proper Daily Diets for Kidney Stone Patients

The onset of many diseases and health problems is closely related with our daily diets and proper and healthy diets and eating habits can help prevent even some cancers. Let’s see together what the proper daily diets for kidney stones are. Diets play auxiliary function and can help slow down the growth rate of the stone or even shrink and dissolve the stone without surgery.

1. Drink more water. More water intake can dilute urine and reduce the concentration of calcium and oxalic acid and prevent the formation of calcium oxalate stones. Researches have found that 50% increase of urine output can decrease 86% incidence of kidney stones.

2. Have proper intake of calcium. It has been mistakenly understood that calcium is the cause of forming stones, actually this is not the truth and kidney stone patients still need to supply proper amount of calcium.

3. Have less food that is high in oxalate such as potato, spinach, strawberries, sugar beet, chocolate, etc. Too much intake of oxalate is one of the main causes of kidney stones.

4. Do not drink milk before sleep. 2-3 hours after drinking milk is the peak time for calcium being discharged through the kidneys and sharp increase of calcium in the kidneys make people more susceptible to kidney stones, therefore kidney stone patients should avoid drinking high-calcium milk before sleep.

5. Have less bean products. Soybean foods are high in oxalic acid and phosphate which can be combined with calcium in the kidneys and form stones.

6. Avoid too much intake of cod-liver oil. Cod-liver oil contains rich vitamin D which can promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus. As a result, there will be large discharged calcium and phosphorus in urine and produce lot of deposits.

7. Have more black fungus. Black fungus contains a variety of minerals and trace elements which can cause strong chemical reactions and make the stones to be dissolved and discharged outsides.