Do Kidney Disease Patients Get Kidney Stones? The Answer…

Do Kidney Disease Patients Get Kidney Stones? The Answer Surprised Even Me. In over two decades of practising nephrology, I have been asked thousands of questions about kidney stones. But last month, during a webinar I was speaking at, someone asked me something I genuinely had not been asked before. "Doctor, do patients with chronic kidney disease get kidney stones?" I paused. Not because I didn't know the answer. But because I realised: in all the years I have been practising, no patient, no student, no fellow doctor had ever asked me this directly. And the answer is important enough that everyone should know it. Yes. CKD patients absolutely can get kidney stones. And their risk is actually higher. Here is why. The fluid problem: Most of my advice to kidney stone patients starts the same way: drink more wa