Soda Drinks with High Citrate Prevent Kidney Stones?

>> Friday, October 1, 2010




Boston, long known to drink too much soda can be harmful to health. But soft drinks containing high citrate can prevent this type of kidney stones are most common.

In this study, researchers found that some version of orange-flavored diet soft drinks are popular, such as 7Up, Sunkist and Sprite contain relatively high amount of citrate.

Citrate may inhibit formation of calcium oxalate stones are the most common cause of kidney stones.

The findings reported in the Journal of Urology shows that a diet soda with a high citrate can be used for people prone to kidney stones.

Kidney stones occur when the urine contains more crystal pembetuk substances such as calcium, uric acid and a substance called oxalate compared with other content that can be diluted. Most kidney stones caused by calcium and usually in combination with oxalate.

"One of the causes of kidney stones are a relatively small content of citrate in the urine of his," said Dr Brian H Eisner, a urologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, as quoted by Reuters on Tuesday (18/05/2010).

During this time a common treatment to prevent kidney stones from calcium oxalate or other stone types such as uric acid stones is by taking supplements of potassium citrate.

But according to Dr. Eisner, how exactly this therapy could prevent kidney stone formation remains unclear, but some doctors have already recommended this to patients. The purpose of this study was to see whether there are commercial drinks that contain citric similar to drink homemade lemonade.

Overall, this study found the orange-based diet sodas including 7Up, Sunkist, Sprite, Fresca and Canada Dry ginger ale has a higher citrate levels than homemade lemonade drinks. While not many other sodas contain citric.

Because there is no definite evidence of a high citric drinks help prevent kidney stone formation, these investigators did not recommend someone to diet soda taste orange to prevent stone formation. But patients should be routinely recommended to consume 2-3 liters of water or other liquids every day.

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