Patient Education: What causes kidney stones? | read this item
Patients may be at risk for kidney stones if:-
High concentrations of calcium, oxalate or uric acid in the urine.
Low pH (urine too acidic)
Concentrated urine (poor fluid intake)
Not eating enough calcium (you absorb too much oxalate if calcium is low)
Eating too much calcium
High sugar intake
High protein intake.
High sodium intake.
MEDICAL CONDITIONS MAY ALSO PREDISPOSE TO KIDNEY STONE [...]
Herbal corner: Can green tea prevent kidney stones | read this item
tea is more than a wonderful soothing beverage…..
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Nephrolithiasis otherwise known as kidney stones are responsible for a very significant number of health issues. The lifetime risk of kidney stone formation is approximately 13% in men and 7% in women. The yearly economic cost of kidney stones has been estimated at 5.3 [...]
Patient Education: How do you lower your risk of Chronic Kidney Disease. | read this item
If you have diabetes and hypertension then you are at higher than average risk for chronic kidney disease. You should be aware of this and be very involved with your treatment, you must help your doctor to care for you!!.
Ask pertinent questions such as.
Q: Have you checked my kidneys? if so how are they doing.
Patient Education: What causes Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). | read this item
Studies done on the population of patients with CKD suggests that the two main causes are diabetes and hypertension. Together accounting for 30% of cases. When we look at patients who are already on dialysis the number jumps to almost 50%.
Diabetes is a condition where there is excess sugar in the blood stream, as a [...]
Patient Education: What is chronic kidney disease (CKD) | read this item
Chronic kidney disease refers to any process that damages your kidneys over a period of more than three months and as a consequence of that damage reduces the ability of your kidney to carry out its primary functions. This results in health related problems due to increased blood pressure and increased stress on the circulatory [...]
News: A Daily dose of baking soda preserves kidney function. | read this item
An upcoming study in the journal of the american society of nephrology (JASN) has shown that a daily dose of baking soda typically used for such mundane tasks as baking and cleaning slows the progression of some forms of kidney disease.
The study which is yet to be published consisted of 134 patients with advanced CKD [...]
Herbal corner: Is green tea beneficial in kidney disease? | read this item
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Many herbal preparations have been marketed to patients with all manner of diseases ranging from the common cold to incurable cancer. Green tea however has been the focus of much main stream research recently with several studies of its efficacy being published. It has been shown to be effective in weight [...]
Herbal corner: Herbal medicine can be dangerous | read this item
While herbal medicine has been on the rise and some herbal remedies do have medicinal effect, we must be cautious about the use of herbs for which we have very limited data or of products that claim to be mixtures of multiple herbs with no method to actually confirm the constituents.
In 1993 investigators published in [...]
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