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Doctors remove 420 kidney stones 'caused by excessive tofu' from patient in China
www.telegraph.co.uk/news ^ | 10:48AM BST 09 Jun 2015 | By Charlotte Middlehurst, Shanghai

Posted on 06/09/2015 11:00:21 AM PDT by Red Badger

The operation to remove hundreds of tiny stones took doctors around two hours

Doctors in China have removed 420 kidney stones from a man's body, blaming an excessive amount of tofu in his daily diet.

Mr He from Zhejiang Province in eastern China, checked into the Dongyang People's Hospital complaining of intense pain in his abdomen last month. A CT scan revealed that his left kidney was packed full of stones, most of them tiny.

Doctors operated on Friday in an agonising procedure that lasted about two hours.

Mr He said he had a history of suffering from kidney stones. Twenty years ago he had 10 stones removed using a procedure called lithotripsy, which sends shock waves to break up stones in the kidney, bladder, or ureter until they are small enough to pass in the urine.

"I have worked as a doctor for 30 years and have never seen so many stones," said Zhou Changchun, the attending surgeon, according to state newspaper Qianjiang Evening Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; chinese; kidney; macrobiotic; soy; soybeans; soyispoison; stone; tofu; vegans; vegetarian; vegetarianism; vegetarians
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To: Red Badger

well there wasn’t too fu of them at all...


21 posted on 06/09/2015 11:34:07 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: dainbramaged

Seems like only men get Kidney stones. I’ve never met a woman who has had them....................


22 posted on 06/09/2015 11:36:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Kevin in California

I now carry in my toilette bag both kinds of pills in case I have another kidney stone bout while somewhere on the road out of the clutches of an ER.

Oxycodone....... don’t leave home with out it


23 posted on 06/09/2015 11:36:43 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Gamecock

24 posted on 06/09/2015 11:36:54 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Tennessee Nana

420 too many.....................


25 posted on 06/09/2015 11:37:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: bert

Reqium for a gleet.


26 posted on 06/09/2015 11:38:23 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: bert

I have heard that it it the closest a man will come to feeling like childbirth........................


27 posted on 06/09/2015 11:39:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

no.... cranberry products cure urinary tract infection but not kidney stones

there is no cure for kidney stones. only pain

stones can be prevented by drinking fluids, leamon ade and guess what else?..... beer


28 posted on 06/09/2015 11:39:30 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Red Badger

Honda once made a six cylinder motorcycle race engine that revved to nearly 19,000 rpm. The sound was an incredible shriek. One auto journalists compared the sound to a panther passing a kidney stone.


29 posted on 06/09/2015 11:41:05 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I gotta tell you, this IS my phobia... getting a kidney stone. I've heard the stories and it scares the crap out of me.

Even my dad told me he'd almost rather die than go through it again... and this guy has a pain threshold like no other, I swear he's a machine

30 posted on 06/09/2015 11:41:11 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: Salamander
O noses! Not a stone story ! I remember the stonz!


31 posted on 06/09/2015 11:43:50 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Red Badger
Seems like only men get Kidney stones. I’ve never met a woman who has had them....................

Spent Saturday night Sunday morning in an ER with a lady in excruciating pain from one. I knew she was in trouble because she never complains.

32 posted on 06/09/2015 11:45:10 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.)
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To: Kevin in California

Did you ask the doctor what kind of stone it is? There are a couple of different kinds. Knowing the kind of stone might help you avoid getting them in the future.


33 posted on 06/09/2015 11:46:32 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: bert

BEER?.................I’m safe..........................


34 posted on 06/09/2015 11:48:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Stentor

I know a woman who had a kidney stone. She didn’t know what it was and thought she was dying. She asked the very young EMT in the ambulance if she was dying. She said he looked about 15 y.o. He looked at her and said, “We’re not allowed to answer questions like that.” She was sure then that she was dying.

At the hospital they told her she had a kidney stone and she was passing it. Unfortunately the one they saw on the X-ray was the second one. She had that one two weeks late.


35 posted on 06/09/2015 11:51:29 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: FunkyZero

Yeah me as well, after seeing what this guy in my taxi went through it scared the crap out of me. I remember he was yelling so much people on the street were stopping to look as I drove by. I thought he was faking at first but you can’t fake that pain, it must feel like your guts are getting ripped up.


36 posted on 06/09/2015 11:52:22 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Red Badger

Try this:

“The Amazing Liver & Gallbladder Flush” by Andreas Moritz

The wife and I flush every 3-4 weeks and get out dozens to hundreds of stones each time.


37 posted on 06/09/2015 11:54:18 AM PDT by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: muglywump

But this is kidneys, not Liver or gall bladder.................


38 posted on 06/09/2015 11:57:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

What did they expect?
One of the ingredients in tofu is Portland cement.


39 posted on 06/09/2015 11:58:32 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit to exercise as a right?)
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To: bert
I now carry in my toilette bag both kinds of pills in case I have another kidney stone bout while somewhere on the road out of the clutches of an ER. Oxycodone....... don’t leave home with out it

Get caught with that, you're doing hard time.

40 posted on 06/09/2015 12:07:12 PM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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