A 20-year-old woman from Tainan recently had surgery to remove over 300 kidney stones from her body.
Her name is Xiao Yu, and she was taken to Chi Mei Hospital in Tainan last week because she had a fever and severe pain in her lower back, as reported by ET Today. Doctors discovered through an X-ray that her kidney was full of hundreds of tiny kidney stones.
Reportedly, Xiao Yu didn’t like drinking water and often chose sugary teas and juices from tea stands for hydration. This led to chronic dehydration and the accumulation of minerals in her kidneys. Doctors prescribed antibiotics and performed a minimally invasive procedure to remove the kidney stones, which were described as looking like “little steamed buns.”
More than 300 stones, ranging from 0.5 cm to 2 cm in diameter, were removed from the patient.
Urologists at Chi Mei Hospital are advising the public to drink plenty of water to help the body process substances like sugars, salt, and calcium effectively.
The case of the young woman from Tainan serves as an extreme example of the risks associated with insufficient hydration and unhealthy dietary habits.
On average, men have a higher likelihood of experiencing kidney stones, a condition where solid deposits form in the kidneys.
According to statistics provided by Lin Tsai-yang, a urologist at Chi Mei Hospital in Taiwan, it is observed that 14.9% of men are prone to developing kidney stones over the course of their lifetime.
In contrast, the likelihood for women is significantly lower, standing at only 4.3%. This discrepancy in occurrence rates highlights a notable gender difference in the susceptibility to kidney stone formation.
