Doctors are increasingly seeing teenage girls suffering from kidney stones, especially during summer.
Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man. Now doctors are increasingly seeing a different kind of patient suffering from the extremely painful condition, especially during summer.
Doctors who spoke to NBC News said they see more kids with kidney stones in the summer than any other season.is a metabolic disorder, also known as nephrolithiasis, that occurs when minerals such as calcium, oxalate and phosphorus accumulate in urine and form hard yellowish crystals as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball in severe cases.
Much of the nephrolithiasis research in children in the U.S. has been led by Tasian and his colleagues and is focused on finding the cause."Clearly something has changed in our environment that is causing this rapid shift,” he said. “It’s still nerve-wracking to have to go through it again and again,” Carroll, now 14, said through tears as she recalled the fear of undergoing surgery. “But I know it’s a part of life, and I have to keep moving forward.”Kidney stones aren't common in children, although the rate is unclear because most research has focused on adults.
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