Should someone with kidney stones drink alcohol?

Answer 1

IMPORTANT! ALWAYS ASK YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE MAKING ANY HEALTH RELATED DECISION. I personally have been a green tea drinker all my life till I had a kidney transplant. My transplant doctor explained the following reasons why patients with an organ transplant should not drink Green Tea. 1. One reason why a transplant recepient takes transplant drugs is to suppress their immune (lower their white cell count) to prevent organ rejection. Green Tea raises one's immune system which may be good for a normal person but not a transplant recepient. 2. Also, the transplant drugs have chemicals that help the body to accept the new organ. Green Tea basically detoxify ( removes the potent of the transplant drugs) which may be good again for a normal person but dangerous for a transplant recepient. The Green Tea flushes the transplant drugs out of the system which suppose to always stay at a constant level (That is why taking your transplant meds at the right time is very crucial for the survival of the transplanted organ). To sum it up, if you are a transplant recepient don't drink GREEN TEA. However, ask your doctor because everyone has different circumstances. And remember to protect and cherish that life saving organ which had been given unselfishly out of love.

Answer 2

In fact, this is a question that is best answered by your nephrologist (a doctor that specializes in kidneys). If you've had a kidney transplant, you're taking a variety of drugs, some of which may create adverse reactions when combined with alcohol. Your doctor will know best how to answer this question because your doctor will understand your medical history, along with your currect regime of drugs. However, if your doctor gives you the go ahead, while abstaining from alcohol will surely do no harm and is the preferrable course of action - moderation is the best. As a transplant recipient, you're especially vulnerable to infection. And large quantities of alcohol will make your more susceptible to infection, not to mention the other host of unpleasant symptoms that can accompany binge drinking. Assuming you're an average size adult, a drink a day is probably OK.

Answer 3

With a kidney transplant, you want all the vascular tissue to the new kidney as possible, to give it plenty of blood flow. When you smoke, it causes your blood vessels to narrow, which reduces blood flow to your transplanted kidney. Not smoking would increase the chances that the transplanted kidney will thrive and function as well as possible.

It would not be advisable to use any tobacco product for this reason alone, despite all the other risks that tobacco can cause to your health.

Answer 4

Obviously you can, but it is not a good idea. Alcohol stresses the kidneys by causing dehydration, which is hard even on healthy kidneys. It may also interfere with antibiotics by causing them to move through the system too rapidly.

Answer 5

Only if they can prove that they are a "reformed alcoholic" - i.e A surgeon will not (usually) transplant someone who is still an ongoing alcholic. At least, that is the standard for liver transplant - I'm guessing it would also apply for a kidney, heart or other form of transplant on an alcoholic patient, since transplanting a patient who is still an alcoholic means that the treatment is less likely to work. This means that the 'potential benefit' of a transplant may not outweigh the cost to the NHS. There may be significant 'comorbidities' - other diseases that render transplantation a difficult option, such as liver damage. Since the patient is still an alcoholic, it can be argued that they do not care about their own health, which means that they are unlikely to take care of a transplanted organ (which requires medication compliance, diet compliance, exercise compliance, blood-test compliance and hospital appointment compliance). Also, most of the post-transplant medication used should not be mixed with alcohol, which would be potentially problematic.