Water to prevent kidney stones: tap vs bottled; soft vs hard - does it matter?

BJU Int. 2019 Dec;124(6):905-906. doi: 10.1111/bju.14871. Epub 2019 Aug 1.

Authors

Susan Willis¹, David S Goldfarb^{2

3}, Kay Thomas¹, Matthew Bultitude¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² Nephrology Division, Department of Medicine, New York University (NYU) Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
³ NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 31310699
DOI: 10.1111/bju.14871

No abstract available

Keywords: #KidneyStones; #UroStone; bottled water; kidney stones; prevention; tap water; water.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Drinking Water* / analysis
Drinking Water* / chemistry
Electrolytes
Humans
Kidney Calculi / etiology
Kidney Calculi / prevention & control*
Minerals

Substances

Drinking Water
Electrolytes
Minerals