• Investigation the effect of dietary in nephrolithiasis (Systematic review)
  • Ailar Hashtroodi,1 Mahdi ardakani,2 Elham Safari,3,*
    1. Student of Health care management, Student Research Committee, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
    2. student of medical science, faculty of medical science, Mashhad Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
    3. Student Research Committee, School of Nursery and Midwifery, Mashhad Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.


  • Introduction: Kidney stones or nephrolithiasis are one of the most common kidney diseases in the world, which environmental and genetic factors cause it. Symptoms of nephrolithiasis include pain in the lumbar and lateral area which depending on the type of stone the treatment will be different. Risk factors are including low activity and obesity, some medicines, diet, and some diseases. Because the effect of diet as one of the most important factors in the prevention of nephrolithiasis, the aim of this study is to checking the effect of dietary in nephrolithiasis.
  • Methods: This review article was performed within articles published at PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and SID from 2000 to 2019. The keywords were, nephrolithiasis, dietary and kidney stone. By searching this database, 94 articles were found, 47of them were not related with investigating and 28 of them by reading abstract were removed. All articles chosen from English and Persian articles. Also, articles about kidney disease of animals were not evaluated.
  • Results: Finally, 15 articles were included in the study. In 3 articles that investigated the different diets and the amount of calcium and sodium and other minerals in them and their effect on kidney disease, was expressed, by reducing sodium intake, the risk of nephrolithiasis is decreased. In one of the studies, positive and negative effects of caffeine were measured on nephrolithiasis and don’t find the results related to this issue, but decaffeinated coffee has less risk in the creation of kidney stones. In other articles, was emphasized the importance of vegetables and fruits in the diet and drinking enough water (two liters per day), also using animal proteins such as milk, eggs, fish, red meat and chicken, only to a rate of ( 50-60g) daily and removal salt from meals.
  • Conclusion: It seems that dietary affects the creation of nephrolithiasis, so suggested on the removal salt and including of fruits and vegetables in meals, however need to be more research done at this topic.
  • Keywords: Nephrolithiasis, Dietary, Kidney stone