Dietary Information for Stone Prevention

Urine needs to be supersaturated with the chemicals that compose the stones for them to develop. This means that there is a high concentration of these chemicals present. When this occurs, the respective chemicals crystallize, clump together (aggregate) and a stone eventually develops. This can be due to excessive excretion of these chemicals in urine and/or dehydration. This is a simplified description of this process which is actually quite complex and modulated by a number of other factors.