by Evan Goldfischer | Sep 12, 2018 | Book Excerpts, Risk Factors for Kidney Stones
Statistics say that one in 10 Americans will have a kidney stone at some time in their lives. Aside from already having had a kidney stone attack, what can increase the odds that a person will have the misfortune to develop stones? Here are a few factors. Age Studies...
by Evan Goldfischer | Sep 5, 2018 | Book Excerpts, Diagnosing kidney stones
As I’ve written before, kidney stones share many symptoms with urinary tract infections. The way your doctor will be able to know the difference is through an array of diagnostic tests. These tests fall into three general categories: imaging, blood tests, and...
by Evan Goldfischer | Aug 29, 2018 | Book Excerpts, Symptoms of kidney stones
You wake up one morning with pain in your lower abdomen. When you go to the bathroom, you realize it hurts to pee, and what’s more alarming, when you look at your output, you see that it’s reddish in color. But is it a urinary tract infection, or is it a kidney stone?...
by Evan Goldfischer | Aug 22, 2018 | Book Excerpts, Causes of Kidney Stones, Preventing kidney stones
Until recently, women had a much lower risk of getting kidney stones than men. But, sorry ladies, your odds of landing a stone are now almost equal to those of men. Why? There are a few reasons. One major reason women are getting stones is because they’re taking...
by Evan Goldfischer | Aug 8, 2018 | Book Excerpts, Causes of Kidney Stones
Over the course of just one year, an estimated 177,496 people over the age of 20 were admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with kidney stones. Statistics also show that approximately 2 million adults were diagnosed with kidney stones during visits with primary care...
by Evan Goldfischer | Aug 1, 2018 | Book Excerpts, Calcium Stones, Causes of Kidney Stones
You might be wondering what motivated me to write a book about kidney stones. Well, it’s because I’m a stoner…a kidney stoner, that is. I specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones, and ever since I was in medical school, people have told me that the...
