Seth Bechis, MD, emphasizes the potential complications from elevated intra-renal pressure, such as sepsis from bacterial spread, ruptures leading to pain and difficult recovery, impaired renal function, and hemorrhage, highlighting the need for understanding these risks for better postoperative outcomes and hospital efficiency.
Alkaline water unlikely to prevent kidney stones, study finds
January 11th 2024"While alkaline water products have a higher pH than regular water, they have a negligible alkali content–which suggests that they can't raise urine pH enough to affect the development of kidney and other urinary stones," says Roshan M. Patel, MD.