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| Eat Up: Research Shows Benefits of Cranberries |
| 2006-11-20 |
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| #12 Excalibur: Belated response. 4 days isn't bad. I avoided fluids, contrary to doctor's orders but mine turned to powder after about 6 days. I never miss a cranberry fix. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-20 20:10 |
| #11 And I swear by cranberry juice. It is a miracle product. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-11-20 20:01 |
| #10 Sneaze: Right there with you. I had a kidney stone in my early twenties. It took four days to pass. Never experienced pain like it before or since. I had the same reaction that that Deadwood scene too. Fantastic show otherwise. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-11-20 20:00 |
#9 ESWL - kidney stone treament (from wiki)A lithotriptor is a medical device used in the non-invasive treatment of kidney stones (urinary calculosis) and biliary calculi (stones in the gallbladder or in the liver). The scientific name of this procedure is Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL). Lithotripsy was developed in the early 1980s, and came into widespread use with the introduction of the HM-3 lithotriptor in 1983. Within a few short years, ESWL revolutionized treatment of calculosis. It is estimated that more than one million patients are treated annually with ESWL in the USA alone. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2006-11-20 19:46 |
| #8 It always painful as hell. But the first one is truly frightening. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-11-20 13:03 |
| #7 Stats: 1 in 10 males has problems with kidney stones; for ladies, it is 1 in 20. Women who have experienced both childbirth and kidney stones, claim the latter hurt more. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-20 12:28 |
| #6 Does kidney stone blockage hurt? Triage nurses asked me to rate the level of pain out of 10, with 10 being pass out stage. I said 9 because I was about to pass out and it took a high dose of Morphine to squelch the pain. Note: in the HBO series, "Dead Wood" the doctor is seen jarring a stone out of the patient's bladder. BS! The pain is caused when the stone gets lodged in the upper uretha, ABOVE the bladder and leads to a back up of urine to the kidney. If you drink only a small amount of fluids (1/4 cup per hour, and hard liquor is recommended) then the pain goes away. However, doctors ask you to drink lots of fluids because the buildup pressure will push the stone out within the normal 3 day period. I am not a doctor, but I say: to hell with that! |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-20 12:23 |
| #5 And then there's cranberry vodka and lemonade. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-11-20 10:20 |
| #4 My dad had kidneys stones removed in '65 and has the scar to prove it. At that time they told him to drink cranberry juice, then it was no, now it's back on. Problem is, cranberries are grown in what are now called "wetlands." |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-11-20 10:18 |
| #3 I got fond of them as soon as French TV taiolked of how eeeeeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiiiiiiiil was their singeress: pro death penalty (like most French outside the MSM) and anti-abortion. Now the person who was debasing her was a guy so I would have liked to be able to tell him on what right he was telling a woman what she has to think about the theme. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-11-20 08:45 |
| #2 Research Shows Benefits of Cranberries I dunno, I never really had an interest in their music. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-20 08:19 |
| #1 Drinking a lot of ordinary cranberry juice is also shown to prevent virus to cell adhesion of several unpleasant bacteria viruses that cause severe bladder infections and diarrhea. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-11-20 08:11 |