Dietary modifications important in medical protocols designed to promote urolith dissolution, prevention. Results of experimental and clinical investigation have confirmed the importance of dietary modifications in medical protocols designed to promote dissolution and prevention of uroliths. The objectives of medical management of uroliths are to arrest further growth and/or to promote urolith dissolution by cor recting or controlling underlying abnormalities For therapy to be most effective, it mustpromote un-dersaturation of urine with calculogenic crystalloids by: 1) increasing the urine solubility of crystalloids. 2) increasing the volume of urine in which crystalloids are dissolved or suspended. 3) reducing the quantities of calculogenic crystalloids in urine.
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