Elaine1bCoeTie4This is an article for all of you to write.

The web is awash in apps for tracking fluid intake, and kidney stone prevention is all about fluids.

Some smart bottles‘ have arrived on the market. They track what you drink and keep the results on your smartphone. Since some of these are kickstarter efforts there is even an article on Slate about them. Some appear to be finished and rather sleek products. We know nothing about them.

There are apps for sodium intake, calcium intake – We think. The field looks thin for calcium apps.

Low sodium and high calcium diets are important in stone prevention.

We even found one app for preventing kidney stones – see if you can find it.

Elaine looked up phone apps for water tracking and easily found a number of them. Fred looked too, and found the same. How can we know which ones are any good except we ask you to tell us. Likewise for sodium, and calcium, and for the rather pricy smart bottles.

Please comment.

Say which apps you use or have used. What did you think of them? How long did you use them. Would you recommend them? LIkewise for smart bottles. Are they worth the price – do they help you?

About 30,000 people come to this site every month. Please share your experiences.

This Article Will Get Longer as We Get Your Opinions and Experiences

Since we know nothing about these apps and devices, we need to learn, from you. So please help.

A number of comments have come in, either posted as comments or by email. For the latter I have entered the comments with only the first name and avoiding any email identifiers. Thank  you, everyone so far, and we will soon compile a table as promised.

The Score as of April 2

A tally of the results to date.

DEVICE

LIKED

DISLIKED

NO APP 22
JUST A JUG 11
MY FITNESS PAL 6 2
SPREADSHEET 1
KIDNEY FUNCTION TRACKER 1
SODIUM TRACKER 1 2
HYDRO COACH 1 1
GULP 1
FIT-BIT 1
WATERLOGGED 1
LOSE IT 1
TOTAL 45 7

 

No app at all wins by 33 of the 52 comments. Of these 22 were just no app the other 11 were just a jug. The former meant none used, no interest.The latter meant jugs of water, one kind or another, stashed about or planned the night before in innumerable combinations.

Each of the other devices had a tiny scatter of love or hate or both as the table shows.

This is not science: Some people were hard to score and I left them out – could not tell if they used anything or not.

Dislike meant either not good or good for a while then discarded. Liked means used, valuable, and in play for a significant time.

There are so many people on this site every month, I hope more stop by and comment.

So far I would not buy stock in special water bottle companies, but might want to try out a line of nice colored water jugs – come to think of it the web is saturated with them!

Regards, Elaine and Fred

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