Can patients with kidney stones eat sauerkraut?

Kidney stones can cause many adverse effects on physical health, and patients with kidney stones are not recommended to eat sauerkraut, because people who like to eat sauerkraut are more likely to suffer from kidney stones. This is mainly because after eating too much, the calcium oxalate in the intestines cannot be excreted from the body and is absorbed by the human body.

1. People who love to eat sauerkraut are more likely to develop kidney stones. The formation process of kidney stones is that certain factors cause the concentration of crystal substances in the urine to increase or the solubility to decrease, resulting in a supersaturated state. Crystals precipitate and grow and aggregate locally, eventually forming stones. In this process, the formation of a supersaturated state of urine crystal substances and the reduction of the content of crystallization inhibitors in urine are the two most important factors:

2. Why does eating sauerkraut easily lead to kidney stones? This is because of its high acidity. After eating, it is not easy to form calcium oxalate in the intestines and be excreted from the body, but is absorbed into the human body in large quantities. Oxalic acid that enters the human body passes through the kidneys, which use their excretion function to excrete calcium oxalate crystals. These crystalline objects are easily deposited to form kidney stones or urinary stones in other parts of the body.

3. Vitamin C is destroyed in large quantities during the process of pickling sauerkraut. In addition, because sauerkraut contains acidic substances such as nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, oxalic acid and other organic acids, the entire digestive tract forms a highly acidic environment after eating, which has a significant inhibitory effect on the human body's absorption of vitamin C in other vegetables.

4. The human body lacks vitamin C, which reduces the ability to inhibit the deposition of calcium oxalate in the kidneys and reduce stone formation, thus greatly increasing the factors of stone formation. Therefore, do not consume sauerkraut in large quantities or for a long time.