by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Aug 11, 2019 | For Doctors, For Patients
Middle age 45 – 65, not the usual time to form your first kidney stone. The average for new stone onset is 35, with a spread of about 12 years, so by 45 you might think the odds are in your favor. But not always. Sometimes they start late, even into your fifties...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Nov 6, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Elsewhere we have described an innovative web based course aimed at reducing kidney stone risk factors via improved diet. Briefly, the course helps patients whose physicians have prescribed diet and fluid changes implement those changes, by teaching them to choose the...
by Jill Harris, LPN | Aug 22, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
Who doesn’t love dessert? I, for one, thoroughly enjoy cookies, cake, and ice cream, but I keep it for here and there and not everywhere. I know that many of you love it, too, because you tell me everyday that this is the hardest thing for you to avoid. But I am...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Jun 5, 2017 | CASES
Severe hyperoxaluria – always worrisome, never something to dismiss or even wait a long time thinking about. The Vegetable Seller’ by Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer (c.1534-1574) seems a perfect image for this exercise in vegetable excess. He was never...
by Jill Harris, LPN | Oct 3, 2016 | For Doctors, For Patients
I thought it was time to sum things up, to offer an utterly practical guide to stone prevention. So here it is. You have kidney stones, even one, what next? There are things you need to have your physicians do for you. There are things you need to do for yourself....
