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What are your recommendations for stone prevention for patients with recurrent calcium based nephrolithiasis who consume well water with a high calcium concentration?

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Nephrology · Mayo Clinic

Drink lots of it! Seriously, studies done long ago, looking at the geography of stone formers did not correlate with water hardness (mineral content), but rather with average temperature, the incidence of stone passage being higher in the southern parts of the United States. The amount of calcium co...

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