What causes urolithiasis?
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Urolithiasis may be related to dietary factors, metabolic factors, infection factors and other reasons.
1. Dietary factors
diet intake of high purine, high calcium, high fat, high oxalic acid and other foods or lack of adequate water intake, may lead to the occurrence of urolithiasis.
2. metabolic factors suffering
from hyperparathyroidism, gout and other diseases or long-term bed, may lead to abnormal calcium and phosphorus metabolism in the body, the formation of stones.
3. Infection factors
urolithiasis may be related to urinary tract infection, after infection pathogens can decompose urea to produce ammonia, promote urine pH rise, resulting in phosphate, carbonate to bacteria or pus mass as the core and the formation of stones.
