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

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Can You Dissolve Calcium Oxide Stones?

Most people are going to have calcium oxide stones. So if they've got uric acid stones, you want to out that urine and we're deliberately alkalizing that urine in a stone clinic. We get everyone to try and measure that urine pH, either with dip sticks, or with pH meters. For someone who's had a stone every five years? That probably doesn't mean anything at all. I do advise people to test that urine. But yeah, we're alkalizing the urine deliberately,. because they've got a uric acid stone that either you don't, they keep getting it and so you want to prevent it happening again. And yes, we're giving medications there

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