Hotter The Climate, More The Kidney Stones

Beware of kidney stones this summer!! While you may be enjoying pleasant summer season, the warming climate on the other hand may pave an easy way for the kidney stones to pop up in your stomach.

According to the researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, the hotter the climate, the more the probability of formation of kidney stones in the U.S.

Researchers have warned people of kidney stones which can easily emerge in high temperatures due to more fluid loss.

Yair Lotan, co-author of the study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said that this is a study of its own kind which examines the effect of global warming on people’s health.

Lotan also maintains that “as far as we know this is the first time that climate change has been linked to any human disease directly.”

The scientists looked at the people in the U.S. and found out that kidney stones are a common problem among the aboriginals and found out a relationship between climatic conditions and the appearance of the kidney stones.

Experts have also analyzed the extent to which the climate can get hot in the near future, on the basis of alterations in average yearly temperatures nationwide.

This study of temperature variations has led Tom Brikowski, PhD, and colleagues to conclude that the percentage of people who are prone to develop kidney stones in their lives will shoot up to 30% in particular areas.

By 2050, the number will swell up by 1.6 million to 2.2 million.

Going by what Brikowski's team reports in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the southern U.S. or in the upper Midwest areas will be at a higher risk, where inclination in climatic temperatures can play havoc with the physiological systems of the people.

Even other countries will witness the climatic changes, resulting in an increase in kidney stones in the natives.

Researchers explain this as a "yet another challenge to the task of adapting to climate change in this century."

Dr. Ross Morton, a nephrologist at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, upholds the same view that “the main thing that protects you against kidney stones is the volume of urine you make, so the more urine you make by volume the less likely you are to make kidney stones. The hotter it is the more likely you are to sweat, and the lower urine volume you're going to have, so I presume that's the basis for what they're saying ... and it makes some inherent sense.''