COMMON antibiotics may be to blame for the rising incidence of kidney stones, particularly among children, according to a case-control study involving more than 260,000 patients, and published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Five classes of oral antibiotics: sulfas, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, nitrofurantoin/methenamine and broad-spectrum penicillins were linked to increased risk of nephrolithiasis - CLICK HERE.
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