Ways to Help Prevent Kidney Stones?

Question

im pretty spooked cuz i heard too many soft drinks can cause it, and i drink a good amount. People have told me they hurt like h**l, and I dont want them, so I definitely cut down on my soft drinks. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks!

Answer 1

Drink a lot of water and drink cranberry juice every day.  

Answer 2

My sister has had kidney stones before.  Yes water would help alot to prevent kidney stones but lemonade is a great thing to drink also to prevent them.

Answer 3

drink a lot of fresh water. Not things that have water in them and call it getting hydrated. Drink water, and water only. They do hurt like h**l, because I've passed one before. Think of your kidneys as a water filter. You're given 1 gallon to purify to drink, and to keep the filter clean after every use. If you put into that filter relatively clean water with a little bit of stuff in there, then you'll get more clean water out, and use only a little bit to clean the filter, because its relatively clean. If you put into it really dirty water, then you have less water to use to drink and to clean the filter. Same concept with your kidneys. If you put into them clean drinking water, then they will work less to filter out the water, if you drink a lof of soda, then they will have to work harder to filter out any useable water to keep you hydrated, and to keep the kidneys clean. But keeping you hydrated will be the body's top priority, so you don't have that much water to use, and you have alot of other stuff building up in the kidneys, so they have to get rid of the gunk. That's the kidney stones. A lof of people think that just because something has water in it, it's still hydrating, While that is true, there are other things that needs to be looked at. Like filtering the water to use.

Answer 4

drink two litres of water a day will really help prevent getting kidney stones, also drink a glass or two of fresh orange juice a day as this also helps prevent stones forming - it has to be fresh orange juice and not concentrated, you can buy cartons of fresh orange juice from supermarkets, there are certain foods that you should also stop eating but drinking plenty of water and drinking fresh orange juice should be enough - you friend is right kidney stones are the worst pain you could imagine

Answer 5

don't eat alot of prescription pills I swear thats what caused mine

Answer 6

My doctor said to drink lots of water to prevent them, it flushes the stones out also.