how do people get kidney stones?

Answer 1

Kidney stones may form when the normal balance of water, salts, minerals, and other substances found in urine changes. How this balance changes determines the type of kidney stone you have. Most kidney stones are calcium-type—they form when the calcium levels in your urine change.

Factors that change your urine balance include:

Not drinking enough fluids (dehydration). When you become dehydrated, the salts, minerals, and other substances in the urine can stick together and form a stone. This is the most common cause of kidney stones.
Medical conditions. Many medical conditions can affect the normal balance and cause stones to form. People who have inflammatory bowel disease or who have had surgery on their intestines may not absorb fat from their intestines normally. This changes the way the intestines process calcium and other minerals, and it may lead to kidney stones.
Eating foods high in oxalate. You may be more likely to get kidney stones if you eat foods high in oxalate, such as dark green vegetables and chocolate. This may be more of a problem if you also do not get enough calcium in your diet.
Kidney stones may also be an inherited disease, as they often occur in family members over several generations.

In rare cases, a person forms kidney stones because the parathyroid glands produce too much of a hormone, which leads to higher calcium levels and possibly calcium kidney stones.

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Answer 4

There are two kinds of kidney stones. The most common variety are those that are calcium-based and can be prevented by not allowing yourself to get dehydrated, drinking more than the average amount of water (over 3 liters a day), and by drinking lemonade and cranberry juice. The other kind are naturally produced by the body and cannot be prevented, but only a small percentage of the population get those types of stones.

In either case, the minerals involved are not properly filtered out by the kidneys (think of kidneys as oil filters for your blood) so they get into the folds of your kidneys and start to bond together. After enough time passes, you get a stone.

Calcium-based kidney stones can be "broken up" using ultrasound, but the most common way to get rid of kidney stones is to pass them, which is also the most painful. In some cases, if the stone is big enough or it gets lodged anywhere (usually in a urethra, which is the tube from your kidney to your bladder) it requires surgery to get it out.

Answer 5

It's a misconception that milk causes kidney stones. You don't need to avoid milk unless you have a rare condition that makes you a super-absorber of calcium. Most kidney stones are calcium-oxalate. It's the oxalate part of the equation that you have to worry about.

You have to have the "right" physiology to form a stone. You can take 2 people with the exact same diet, and one will form stones and the other never will. So, it might be hereditary, and if you've had one stone in the past, then you know you're prone to forming one again.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

if you drink a lot of milk you get them. They're basically big stones from calcium i think

Answer 8

not drinking enough water you should have at least 64 oz a day

Answer 9

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