Coping with Cacchi Ricci – Medullary Sponge Kidney Survivor
Editors note: This is a guest post from a Medullary Sponge Kidney / Cacchi Ricci disease advocate and guest contributor, Shannon Bauer. The pain from a kidney stone is… Read more »
Category: Kidney stone causes
Obesity and Kidney Stones
Written by Jennifer N. Wu, MD and Roger K. Low, MD University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA. Obesity is a leading public health epidemic with the prevalence in the United States… Read more »
Can bacteria be causing my kidney stones?
You may already be aware that some kidney stones can result from urinary tract infections. These are the so-called “struvite” stones, which can form large staghorn type stones. What you… Read more »
Kidney stones and urinary infections
Urinary infections and kidney stones can be related in two important ways. Infections can be the direct cause of stones or can develop in a patient with a non-infection related… Read more »