“What foods cause kidney stones?”

Depends what type of stone you have passed, very important to analyze the stone for uric acid stone, control red meat for oxalate stone, cut back on high oxalate food low sodium diet is good for most type of stones.

Depends which stone you have and what your metabolic workup shows. Sometimes you're lacking something. You need a 24-hour collection and blood work to figure that out exactly. If you wanted to just fly by the seat of your pants and do something, but not the above, rule of thumb is drink your weight in pounds x 15ml/lb every day and avoid salt and add real lemon to your water. Avoid in excess colas, coffee, spinach, tea, and peanuts. Take no more than 800mg of calcium supplements a day. My advice is to get the urine and blood work.

Dr. Niko Lailas

High calcium, dairy foods.

Namrata Sharma Goel, M.D.