Hmmmm, (think, think, think, think, think, think,) Are we on different tracks here? I'm talking about acid vs. alkaline, and it seems you're talking about concentration of minerals in the liquid of the kidney's second stage, where it resorbs water and other bits of stuff. It does so in response to the amount of water the body signals that it needs (at least in part) so sure, dehydration leads to high and dangerous concentrations of the relatively insoluble stone forming junk. And stones form, no surprise there. Regarding infections, in relatively (I said relatively, now) dilute urine solutions most of them like e.coli, pseudomonas, klebsiella, can exist more easily in an alkaline environment; furthermore they can't jump very far or swim very fast, so drinking lotsa water is not only diluting the broth from the kidneys (thus reducing the tendency to stones and feeding the bugs less nourishing soup at the same time) but facing them with an uphill torrent they can't traverse, keeping them out of the upper UT - a good thing to do. Take care, Malcolm
Nick Grant wrote: > My mum and dad both had kidney stones. Mum's last bout with them was an > extremely hot summer ( she doesn't drink enough water at the best of times) > and when she was admitted for laser treatment, the doctors told her they had > seen a record number of people this summer with kindney stones. > > They believed it was due to people getting dehydrated, and everything > becoming so concentrated. New one on me. > > What do you think about that? > > > > > Hi, I don't go along with your comment that an acidic environment in the > urinary > > tract is linked to bladder or kidney stones, in fact I think it's just the > > opposite. Generally the stones are a compound of calcium, and can even be > > dissolved by adding acidic solutions to a chunk of one. There may be > something, > > or some form of stone, I don't know about, or maybe there is some bodily > > reaction to the constant presence of an acidic environment, so if you have > > knowledge about some specifics I'd like to learn of them. > > Quite often, bacteria hide inside the stones, thus avoiding total > destruction by > > the usual antibiotic regimen, and after even months of pills they return > when > > the ABX are gone and in a few days to a week or so, there you are, yucky > pee > > again. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
