PHChinese Man Has 420 Kidney Stones Removed After Eating Too Much Tofu
Mr He was booked in for an operation immediately because the stones left him almost unable to pass water, and any delay would have meant the kidney would have needed to be removed.
Dr Wei, the surgeon who treated Mr He, said that he was shocked by the number of kidney stones he found. 'I have never seen so many stones before. The operation took less than two hours of which 45 minutes was used to remove the stones.' Doctor said.
'At the end of the operation I realised my arms and legs were numb. The plate used to collect the stones had at least 420 of them of varying sizes and coloured green and yellow.
'These didn't include the tiny rice sized stones that were taken out using specialist suction equipment and these numbered over 100.'
Dr Wei said that bean-based products, and particularly the tofu sold locally in Dongyang, eastern China, often have a high level of calcium and this can easily lead to kidney stones through excessive consumption.
A lack of water intake will cause the calcium to quickly build up inside the body.
And if you thought having 420 kidney stones removed sounds uncomfortable, Mr He’s ordeal is a long way off the current world record. According to the Guinness World Records, in 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient’s left kidney during a three-hour surgery.
Mr He was booked in for an operation immediately because the stones left him almost unable to pass water, and any delay would have meant the kidney would have needed to be removed.
Dr Wei, the surgeon who treated Mr He, said that he was shocked by the number of kidney stones he found. 'I have never seen so many stones before. The operation took less than two hours of which 45 minutes was used to remove the stones.' Doctor said.
'At the end of the operation I realised my arms and legs were numb. The plate used to collect the stones had at least 420 of them of varying sizes and coloured green and yellow.
'These didn't include the tiny rice sized stones that were taken out using specialist suction equipment and these numbered over 100.'
Dr Wei said that bean-based products, and particularly the tofu sold locally in Dongyang, eastern China, often have a high level of calcium and this can easily lead to kidney stones through excessive consumption.
A lack of water intake will cause the calcium to quickly build up inside the body.
And if you thought having 420 kidney stones removed sounds uncomfortable, Mr He’s ordeal is a long way off the current world record. According to the Guinness World Records, in 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient’s left kidney during a three-hour surgery.
