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24-hour urine collection: Why and how

by Jill Harris, LPN, CHC on Feb 14, 2018

You have a kidney stone episode and your doctor asks you to collect your urine for 24 hours. Why oh why is this being asked of you? Isn’t it dreadful enough that you just had a kidney stone?

The only way to find out WHY you are forming kidney stones is to complete a urine collection.

The test results will tell your doctor how saturated your urine is with stone making crystals.

The more saturated your urine is, the more likely you are to form new stones.

Read the full article at kidneystones.uchicago.edu.

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About the Author Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

Jill Harris is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who specializes in kidney stone prevention. Her goal is to teach you what you need to know and, more importantly, how to put that knowledge to work so you can stop forming stones. For good.

Comments

  1. Hannah

    March 10, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    Hello,
    My question is, I had 24hr urine tests and is Oxalate 0.60 out 0.46 and another is 52.8 out of 40.5 . So that mean I have on oxalate diet? And what else can I do to stop having UTI?
    Thank you so much

    Reply
    • Jill Harris

      March 11, 2021 at 4:48 pm

      Hi Hannah,
      Talk to your doc about dealing with the UTI- could be stone related, maybe not. Your oxalate is high and if you are a kidney stone former this could put you at risk. Go to the start page and get your free resources to start your prevention journey. kidneystonediet.com/start
      j

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  2. Kimberly amburgey

    February 19, 2022 at 11:47 am

    Hello I take 24 hr urine test every 6 months and I been having good labs but why would I keep making stones if my urine samples are good?

    Reply
    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      February 24, 2022 at 3:14 pm

      Hi Kimberly.
      I would love to see those results. Perhaps the person looking at them is not asking you the right questions or perhaps some of your values are in normal range for that lab, but the lab doesn’t know where exactly we want stone formers to fall. Make sense? I have a 15 minute inexpensive call for just this if you want to understand better. Well worth it so you STOP making stones. kidneystonediet.com/shop
      j

      Reply
  3. Patricia Oros

    May 5, 2022 at 7:00 pm

    I have hypoparathyroidism and make calcium stones am very low in citrate in urine <36 but nephrologist only put me on diuretic to keep me from expelling to much calcium..What about low citrate?

    Reply
    • Jill Harris, LPN, CHC

      May 8, 2022 at 9:30 am

      Hi Patricia,
      You should ask your doc about this. Low citrate will def increase your kidney stone risk. And use of diuretics (some) could lower potassium and citrate so talk to doc.
      j

      Reply

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