What dietary factors and lifestyle measures are used for prevention of kidney stones?
Patients should take some specific preventive measures to prevent kidney stones. The most important recommendations for reducing the risk for calcium stones are increasing fluid intake, restricting sodium, and reducing protein intake. A lower risk for calcium stones is also associated with potassium intake. Dietary calcium itself does not appear to increase the risk for kidney stones. Patients should try to correct any acidic or alkaline imbalance in the urine so that such stone-forming substances are more likely to dissolve. Try to avoid stone recurrence using dietary changes; if such measures fail then drug treatments may be helpful.
