Natural Ways to Treat Kidney Stones

There are many things that you can do to help reduce your chances of having kidney stones as well as reducing your recurrences.

Some stones will need to be removed by medical professionals but most can be treated naturally. Five ways to treat kidney stones naturally include water consumption, nutrition, juices, vitamins and natural supplements.

Water

As your doctor has told you, water is essential for your body's health. About 80% of people are dehydrated and don't even know it. This spells disaster for those people who are prone to kidney stones.

A good rule we suggest is to drink about half your body weight in ounces of water. If you weigh 200 pounds, you should drink 100 ounces of water a day.

Nutrition

Following these nutritional tips may help reduce symptoms of Kidney Stones:

• Try to eliminate potential food allergens, including dairy, wheat (gluten), corn, preservatives, and food additives. Your health care provider may want to test for food sensitivities.
• Eat antioxidant foods, including fruits (such as blueberries, cherries, and tomatoes), and vegetables (such as squash and bell peppers).
• Eat more high fiber foods, including beans, oats, root vegetables (such as potatoes and yams), and psyllium seed.
• Avoid refined foods such as white breads, pastas, and sugar.
• Eat fewer red meats and more lean meats, cold-water fish, tofu (soy, if no allergy) or beans for protein.
• Cut down on oxalate-containing foods, such as spinach, rhubarb, beets, nuts, chocolate, black tea, wheat bran, strawberries, and beans.
• Include foods rich in magnesium and low in calcium, such as barley, bran, corn, rye, oats, soy, brown rice, avocado, banana, and potato.
• Use healthy cooking oils, such as olive oil or vegetable oil.
• Reduce or eliminate trans-fatty acids, found in such commercially baked goods as cookies, crackers, cakes, French fries, onion rings, donuts, processed foods, and margarine.
• Avoid coffee and other stimulants, alcohol, and tobacco.
• Exercise at least 30 minutes daily, 5 days a week.

Juices

Drink plenty of fruit and vegetable juices such as cranberry, carrot, grape, apple, and orange juices, which contain high levels of citrates. Citrates reduce the build up of uric acid and help eliminate the formation of calcium salts (cause of most kidney stones).

Avoid soft drinks, which contain phosphorus as this can cause kidney stones.

Vitamins

Know your vitamins. Many kidney stone sufferers are B-6 deficient. Therefore, you should consider taking a complete B-complex vitamin which will drastically reduce your risk. Both Magnesium and Vitamin B6 are used by the body to convert oxalate into other substances so deficiencies may result in kidney stones.

Calcium supplementation may reduce oxalate absorption and excretion. Potassium reduces urinary calcium excretion, and people who eat high amounts of dietary potassium appear to be at low risk of forming kidney stones. Uva-Ursi may work as a mild diuretic which can help eliminate the stone.

Natural Supplements for Kidney Stones - Renalis

Renalis addresses diet-related kidney stone formation.

As diet is an important component to general kidney function, the nutrients found in Renalis support healthy kidney function and may discourage stone formation. Natural Therapies, including Renalis, may help to ease the pain and spasm that accompanies stone passage, while ensuring kidney health and limiting the potential for future stone formation.

Nutrients including; Hydrangea, Chanca Piedra, Aloe Vera, Magnesium citrate, and Vitamin B6 work synergistically to ensure nutritional adequacy. Thus promoting the health of your urinary tract, exerting an alkali loading effect, providing reductions of urinary calcium levels, and assisting with the passage of developed stones.

Overall, Renalis may provide you with the best option for maintaining kidney health and reducing your chance of stone formation.

Ingredient List for Renalis:

• Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens) - Hydrangea has mild diuretic activity and has traditionally been used to treat kidney stones and prevent their formation.
  
  In certain cases managed only by a physician, a botanical formula including hydrangea has been used to assist with passage of calcium oxalate or phosphate stones that are no larger than 5mm in diameter, and in patients who are in good health.
• Chanca Piedra (Phyllanthus niruri) - An herb with a long historical tradition in South America for patients with kidney stones, Phyllanthus has a body of scientific evidence supporting its use.
  
  In sixty-nine patients who tend to form calcium kidney stones, administration of Phyllanthus capsules for three months reduced urinary calcium levels when compared to placebo.
• Aloe vera - Aloe is better known for its laxative and wound healing effects. However, aloe also is useful in patients who tend to form kidney stones. One of it constituents, emodin, has mild diuretic activity.
  
  As well, aloe binds calcium and can rapidly decrease the growth rate of calcium crystals in the urine.
• Magnesium citrate - This form of magnesium has added benefit with both components exerting effects in patients prone to kidney stone formation. Magnesium increases the solubility of calcium in the urine and decreases its absorption leading to decreased formation of calcium oxalate (making up 90% of kidney stones).
  
  Citrate increases urinary magnesium citrate levels and decreases urinary oxalate.
• Vitamin B-6 - In a study of over 85000 women, the results showed that lower levels of vitamin B6 are associated with increased risk of developing kidney stones. The authors suggest that large doses of this vitamin may reduce the incidence of kidney stone formation.
  
  Children with a history of kidney stones have benefited from supplementation with vitamin B6, thereby reducing levels of urinary oxalate resulting in no stone formation in a 1 year follow-up, as well as resolution of abdominal pain and blood in the urine.

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