Horrifying toll of drinking 3 liters of soda a day revealed in troubling new video
It might taste soda-licious, but your favorite bubbly beverage comes with a price. Doctors have long warned that guzzling sugar-packed, calorie-loaded drinks on a regular basis can lead to problems like bad teeth and bulging waistlines.But drinking too much soda can also lead to an excruciatingly painful medical condition that sometimes requires surgery to fix.Brazil-based urologist Dr.
Thales Andrade sounded the alarm after removing 35 kidney stones from the bladder of a man who downed 2 to 3 liters of cola every day.In a horrifying Instagram video, he showed off a dish filled with large, yellow stones as the patient lay behind him on the operating table.They are hard objects that form in your kidneys when substances in urine — like calcium, sodium sodium, oxalate and uric acid — get out of balance, according to the National Kidney Foundation.
When there’s too much of these particles and not enough liquid, they clump together and crystalize, creating stones.Once formed, the stone can either stay put in the kidney or start to travel down the urinary tract.Smaller stones might pass quietly in your pee, but bigger ones can get stuck — causing urine to back up and triggering intense pain.That blockage also stops your kidneys from filtering waste properly.
In those cases, doctors may prescribe medication to ease the pain and help the stone pass — or recommend a procedure to break it up or remove it.Kidney stones are common in the US, where it’s estimated that one in 10 people will have one at some point in their lives.
Every year, they send more than half a million Americans to the emergency room.Kidney stones can be as small as a grain of rice or as large as a golf ball.A Sri Lankan man recently set a Guinness World Record with a 1.8-pound stone the size of a grapefruit.Generally, the bigger the stone, the more noticeable the symptoms.
Symptoms can include:“Drinking soda, especially those made with high fructose corn syrup, can increase uric acid le...