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If having a hard lump of gunk scraping around in the soft tissues of your kidney sounds painful, you have good common sense. A kidney stone can cause the most severe pain known to human kind.
Calcium
Most often, calcium is what kidney stones are made from. Calcium, for some reason, clusters in your kidney and keeps getting bigger until it becomes the size of a grain of sand to a good sized throwing rock. When it get that big, you’ve got trouble.
It Will Pass
Most of the time a kidney stone will pass on its own, causing you great pain. The only other alternative are drugs or sugery, both of which you need a doctor for. See a doctor if you pain get too much to handle. If you pass a stone and see it, make sure you bring it in for analysis. Once you find out what it’s made from, you can avoid that substance in the future.
Avoid the Obvious
Once you get your first kidney stone, the chances of getting a second one are extremely high. At that point, you should take action to avoid those substances that are most likely to form stones in your kidney.
High calcium foods are good for you, but if you have stone problems, you may have to avoid milk and the rest to prevent further stones. You can still get calcium in other foods, such as broccoli.
Other things to avoid:
- Avoid antacids, most of which are super high in calcium.
- Avoid oxalate foods. These are: beans, blueberries, beets, celery,
chocolate, grapes, green peppers, parsley, spinach, strawberries, summer squash and tea.
- Too much protein in your diet. Eat more vegetables than meat and cheese.
- Avoid salt and high sodium foods, like potato chips.
- Avoid vitamin D because it helps store calcium in your body.
These help:
- Food rich in vitamin A.
- Getting a lot of regular exercise.
- Supplements of vitamin C, B6 and magnesium
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