nutricionales

Abstract

Renal lithiasis is a pathology characterized by the formation of crystals with a
different composition for each patient with lithiasis, it is remarkable the increase of
this pathology in clinical practice in recent years, being its incidence more frequent
in Western society due to different factors that notoriously influence the formation
of calculations such as: age, sex, race, body mass index (BMI), some medications and
even the weather and medicine most important pillar: feeding.
The latter represents an impact on society since it is hand in hand with some
pathologies such as obesity, metabolic syndrome which do not discriminate on age
of appearance. In addition, it will be explained how macro and micronutrients play a
fundamental role in the prevention or formation of lithium, as well as the importance
of maintaining an adequate daily fluid intake as a preventive way for lithiasis.