Many people have drunk cola, especially when the weather is hot, cola has become an essential product for our sales. Cola is very nutritious in daily life, sweet, and easy to be absorbed by the body. A survey study has found that cola has a certain effect on treating gastric calculi, so it can be seen that it also has certain effects on kidney stone diseases.

Excessive consumption of cola and other carbonated drinks can lead to kidney stones.

Among young people with kidney stones, the main cause of kidney stones is that they do not like to drink plain water, using drinks instead of the water needed by the body at times of thirst. As a result, after consuming a large amount of sweet drinks, the concentration of calcium ions in urine, the content of oxalic acid, and the acidity of urine all increase, and the three mixed together become the cause of kidney stones. Therefore, it is best not to drink carbonated drinks, and drinking plain water is a better choice.

Cola indeed has the effect of treating gastric calculi, but it is limited to the treatment of vegetable gastric calculi, because the ingredients of cola contain a phosphoric substance that can combine with elemental phosphorus and also with calcium, effectively destroying the aggregation substance of the vegetable stone. There are also successful cases in China where vegetable gastric calculi have been treated with cola.

However, doctors do not advocate this method for treating vegetable gastric calculi. Because there are four types of gastric calculi: vegetable gastric calculi, animal gastric calculi, drug gastric calculi, and mixed gastric calculi. It is generally difficult for patients to determine which type of gastric calculi they have.

Even if one knows that they have a vegetable gastric calculi, it is not recommended to treat it only by drinking cola. The reason is that gastric calculi roll around in the stomach, often causing damage to the stomach wall, leading to gastric ulcers, and carbonated drinks are exactly contraindicated for gastric ulcers, as drinking them in large quantities can easily cause a gastric perforation. Once a gastric perforation occurs, a gastric resection will have to be performed. Therefore, such treatments must be carried out in a hospital under the supervision of a doctor, otherwise the consequences are unpredictable.