Calcium protects women from kidney stones

Healthy women who are postmenopausal should take supplements containing calcium citrate. This will help them reduce the risk of kidney stones.

Hashair Dr. Sahai, head of the department for the study of metabolism of metals at the Southwest University of Texas at Dallas, believes that the inclusion in the diet of women calcium citrate   It provides even greater protection urolithiasis . This conclusion was made on the basis of the doctor of many years of personal observation.

"Located in postmenopausal women taking calcium for strong bones, - said Dr. Sahai. - However, for a long time, many experts were fears that calcium can increase the risk of kidney stones . That's why these women with supplements containing calcium, you need to drink at the same time, and supplements containing calcium citrate . When you get both drugs, the combination not only increases the risk of urolithiasis But also provides additional protection against the formation of stones of oxalate and uric acid. "

Stones in the kidneys   It occurs when the urine appears excessive amount of a particular substance that can be converted into small crystals. Of those subsequently developed the stones. Usually, the patient does not feel anything as long as the stones do not begin their movement down the ureter. This gives rise to characteristic renal colic, characterized by an acute, sometimes unbearable pain.

In some cases, the stones come out in the urine. If they are still blocking the ureter, the urologists may crush them, using the method of non-invasive surgery - ultrasonic lithotripsy. When the largest kidney stones held abdominal surgery.

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