KIDNEY STONE SCREENING

This morning the office scheduled a kidney stone seminar and screening for its employees and knowing that I once had trouble with my kidneys, I gladly attended the seminar to learn more about it and how to prevent it. The lecturer, a doctor, gave a good briefing – he enumerated very well the food that people with kidney problems must avoid and he gave us tips on how to prevent the occurrence of kidney stones. One statement of his, however, alarmed me – he said that once a stoner always a stoner so there is danger that my stones would keep on recurring if I don’t watch out and true enough after the seminar and it was time for the tests – the results proved positive for me, I had a stone - .04 cm in size on my right kidney. So I guess the treatment I had before did not really flush out everything. But what’s worse is that Jun had it too…the same size and the same right kidney. So I guess that now we really need to watch our food intake together! Otherwise, we’d both end up having difficulty peeing or worse, having our kidneys taken out with an ultra-expensive operation!!! Anyway, the doctor did not altogether ban any kind of food, what he emphasized was to eat certain foods in moderation since they do have a tendency to form stones faster (like calcium rich and uric rich foods) AND THIS IS MOST IMPORTANT TO ME --- DRINK LOTS OF WATER!!! The size of our stones is not really much reason for us to be alarmed…I guess it just gives us a wake-up call to every once in a while watch carefully what we eat.