Effect of a high-citrate beverage on urine chemistry in patients with calcium kidney stones.
Urolithiasis
; 51(1): 96, 2023 Jul 21.
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| ID: mdl-37479949
ABSTRACT
A well-accepted strategy to prevent kidney stones is to increase urine volume by increasing oral intake of fluids, especially water, to lower supersaturation of the relevant, relatively insoluble salts, and thereby lower the risk of precipitation. Randomized controlled trials have shown that this strategy works. It is inexpensive, safe, and intuitively attractive to patients. However, although any beverage can increase urine volume, and citrus juices can increase urine citrate content and pH, no beverage other than water has been clearly shown by randomized controlled trial to prevent kidney stones. We designed an innovative, palatable, low-calorie, high alkali citrate beverage to prevent kidney stones, called Moonstone. One packet of Moonstone powder, mixed in 500 ml of water, contains 24.5 meq of alkali citrate. We administered one packet twice a day to ten calcium stone formers. Moonstone resulted in an increase in mean 24-h urine citrate and urine pH, and a decrease in supersaturation of calcium oxalate in calcium stone formers compared to an equal volume of water. These changes, comparable to those seen in a prior study of a similar amount of (potassium-magnesium) citrate, will likely be associated with a clinically meaningful reduction in kidney stone burden in patients with calcium stones. The effect to increase urine pH would also be expected to benefit patients with uric acid and cystine stones, groups that we hope to study in a subsequent study. The study preparation was well tolerated and was selected as a preferred preventative strategy by about half the participants. Moonstone is an alternative, over-the-counter therapy for kidney stone prevention.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Kidney Calculi
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Citric Acid
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Urolithiasis
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States