Patients with recurrent kidney stones should restrict their calcium intake.
April 2005
Most kidney stones are made of calcium salts. So many patients think that reducing calcium intake will help prevent getting more kidney stones.
Experts have been debating this for years.
It was originally thought that patients with high amounts of calcium excreted in the urine had to be on low-calcium diets.
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