To prevent more kidney stones, drink water

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To prevent more kidney stones, drink water

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have had a kidney stone should drink enough fluids to produce two liters of urine per day in order to prevent more kidney stones from forming, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians. If drinking more fluids doesn?t work, patients can try ?water pills? (known as diuretics) or other drugs to reduce stone formation. But both of these recommendations are weak, since the evidence for them is moderate to low quality, the authors write. ...

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