How can Calcium oxalate form in urine of children?

Answer 1

The mineral calcite is a major component of rocks known as limestone. Limestones are very abundant and are quarried for crushed stone and dimension stone for use in concrete, road paving, fill and construction of buildings and homes. Calcite is found both as a bulk component of limestone and as a discrete mineral in open spaces where the limestone has cracked or in irregular openings called vugs and quartz lined cavities called geodes.

Calcite is only slightly soluble in water (0.0145 gram per liter of water at 17oC = 63oF). It is much more soluble in water that has dissolved carbon dioxide gas in it. This property of calcite causes limestone to dissolve when groundwater flows through it. Where the limestone is dissolved and eaten away by carbon dioxide charged groundwater, openings called caves and sinkholes are left behind. When groundwater that is saturated with dissolved calcite reaches an open space, like a cave, the carbon dioxide dissolved in it turns into a gas again and the water can no longer hold as much calcite. The excess calcite precipitates out as cave formations (stalactites and stalagmites) or as a type of rock called travertine. This interesting property of calcite leads to places of great beauty such as caves and also creates hazards such as sinkholes

that may collapse underneath us.

Calcium carbonate, used in gasoline spill site remediation can form calcite. Certain chemical reactions with farm chemicals {fertilizers such as

amonium nitrate}, may occur to form calcium oxilate. This is, interestingly enough, the same chemical composition as kidneystone formations in

a human. Since the function of the human kidney is to filter the blood, theoretically, kidneystones may be formed from consumption of well water

contaminated by a specific combination of farm chemicals, and the chemicals used to remediate gasoline spill sites, such as a leaking gasoline

underground storage tanks. According to EPA sources, millions of gallons of refined gasoline are released into our groundwater from leaking gasoline underground storage tanks DESPITE the repalcement of old style tanks, and DESPITE the implementation new requirements for these tanks.

**Thoeretically... this is how calcium oxilate could be found in the urine of children.

Answer 2

Calcium oxalate can form in the urine of children due to various reasons, such as a diet high in oxalate-rich foods, certain medical conditions like hyperoxaluria, or a genetic predisposition to kidney stone formation. Dehydration, certain medications, and underlying metabolic disorders can also contribute to the formation of calcium oxalate in urine.