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Preventing Kidney Stones with Diet

Most people don’t like having kidney stone attacks and are motivated to prevent recurrences.  However, there are some misconceptions.  Some of the interventions patients try such as a low oxalate diet, avoiding tea, drinking citrus containing beverages or restricting dietary calcium are of minimal benefit or counter productive. What does the data show?  8 dietary

By |2025-01-22T13:57:15+00:00January 22nd, 2025|Healthy Living, Kidney Disease|0 Comments

Tolvaptan for the Treatment of Hyponatremia

Tolvaptan is a vasopressin receptor antagonist, specific for the V2 receptor.  This impairs urinary concentration and increases water excretion.  Tolvaptan  is classified as an aquaretic.  In contrast to diuretics, aquaretics stimulate water excretion without significant electrolyte loss. What is Vasopressin? Vasopressin is the same thing as antidiuretic hormone (ADH). It is a hormone

By |2025-01-08T13:49:48+00:00January 8th, 2025|Hyponatremia|0 Comments
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