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.
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
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
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?
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
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?
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