- Some of the common risk factors
for kidney stones include:
dehydration, a high salt diet,
not enough calcium in your diet.
One of the most common misconceptions
is because most kidney stones are calcium
that dietary calcium supplements
are a risk factor for kidney stones
and that's actually contrary to the evidence.
Prevention of kidney stones follows two guidelines.
One is to dilute the urine with as much fluid as possible
and the other is to remove the
constitutes that form the kidney stones
and one of the biggest risk factors for
elevated urine calcium levels is not,
in fact, dietary calcium but is dietary sodium.
Often, patients will Google 'kidney stone diets'
and it's very dogmatic about avoiding oxalates.
However, one of the strategies that may be easier to follow
would be to increase your dietary calcium.