Especially diet soda with lemon or citrus flavor, can help reduce excess calcium which then form kidney stones. Lemons are rich in citrate content of calcium is known to prevent clotting.
Thus the researchers revealed at a meeting of experts of Urology American Urological Association in Chicago.
Approximately 10% of the citizens of the United States to develop kidney stones due to excessive supply of calcium, at one point in their lives. Of the approximately one third of the cases studied, it happened because they were issued did not contain urine citrate sufficient. Study leader at a time so disclosed urologists University of California San Francisco, Dr. Brian Eisner.
Previous research proved Pottasium Citrate and other pills can help overcome these problems, as well as beverages made from a rich lemon citric acid content.
But the study was to expand the idea of how much citric benefits that have been packaged in a diet soda. The researchers did not use a regular sodas because they tend to contain sugar that is not healthy.
"They measured the specific content of the diet sodas are known for their ability to destroy kidney stones," said surgeon from Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Dr. Lowry Wallingford.
Eight types of soda contains more or the same content with the content of citric original lemon. Some of them are Diet Sunkist Orange, Diet 7-Up and Diet Canada Dry. Diet Coke with Lime while not containing citrate at all.
"It's very exciting because the patient did have a lot of drinking to protect them from kidney stones," said Eisner.
Latest recommendations suggest that people who have kidney stones taking up to two liters of fluid per day.
However, some other experts disagree with the results of these studies. "I think sangt not make sense if people suffering from kidney stones were asked to drink a diet soda," said a surgeon from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, Dr. Michael Palese.
He added another content type of diet soda drinks such as caffeine can actually become a nuisance because it causes dehydration. "Water is the best choice," he asserted.
Responding to this, Eisner said the chances for reducing diet soda kidney stones is not for everyone. For those with low citrate, may not be a good choice.