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#168 Kidney Stones and Diet with Dr Nish Bedi & Dr Matthew Bultitude

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Is It a Staacorn Stone?

People often getting recurrent infections, maybe seeing their GP get given some antibiotics. And that cycle goes on until someone does submit the scan. Usually finds they have this sort of very big classical stone called a staacorn stone when it fills all the calices of the kidney. You really have to try and get rid of all bits of stone in that situation. Otherwise, because the bugs are living there, you can remove 70% of it. The 30% have still got bugs in it. It just, I can grow very, very quickly again.

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