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Can the kidney stons grow when you use cocaine?
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Yes: Cocaine vasoconstricts arteries significantly causing a lack of blood flow. As a consequence the kidney gets less blood flow than usual and it will 'act as though the patient is dehydrated". The urine will be concentrated. This makes it more likely for calcium, phosphate, oxalate, uric acid to 'bump into' the stone that is present. Thus the stone can grow. Why take cocaine? It kills !
Answered 5/16/2016
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