Not exact matches
A reduction in animal protein reduces the production of acids within the body and appears to limit the excretion of
urate — uric acid crystals that can act as seeds to
form calcium
stones or create entire
stones themselves.
A reduction in animal protein should also limit the excretion of
urate — uric acid crystals that can act as a seed to
form calcium
stones, or can create entire
stones themselves.
Certain types of
stones are more amenable to this
form of fragmentation (calcium oxalate
stones are especially amenable while
urate stones, for example, are not).
These two compounds combine to
form the ammonium
urate bladder
stone.