Does it come with a Model-T-style horn to honk?
No, with two hard-boiled eggs.
Make that three hard-boiled eggs.
With plenty of olive oil and lemon juice on the side!
At this rate, we’ll have to send up a bigger stateroom.
Or near-German
Total and utter bollocks from beginning to end.
As someone who has suffered with kidney stones for over 25 years, having passed five and needing lithotripsy for one, I want to weigh in on the olive oil and lemon juice debate. Last weekend I was in sufficient pain to visit the local emergency room, where a CAT scan revealed a 6 mm stone with a 50/50 chance of passing or needing surgery. Before going to the hospital, I downed a shot glass of olive oil and a shot glass of lemon juice in the hopes that it would do some good, as I feel it has done in the past.
On Sunday morning, I painlessly passed the stone . . . so painlessly, in fact, that if it weren’t for the fact that the urine stream was momentarily interrupted the way it is when a stone is passing, I wouldn’t have even known it. There was some blood in the urine, but no pain. I visited the urologist for follow-up the following day. He was incredulous that I could have passed the stone, and scheduled another follow-up the next Monday (this week). An x-ray an hour before the visit revealed no stone, which convinced him that it had indeed passed.
Whatever the effect of the olive oil and lemon juice “cure,” my urologist feels it’s purely coincidental but harmless. I, on the other hand, feel that it helped the stone to pass as easily as it did, and I will continue using this treatment the moment I feel a twinge going forward. My x-ray also revealed five stones-in-waiting (three on one side, two on the other), so a once-weekly treatment of olive oil and lemon juice will at least give me the peace of mind I need to get through what I know is coming.
Why didn’t you pass the “stones in waiting” too? Not ripe enough? Or does the treatment only work on painful stones?
Ooooo. Zombie thread, glowing testimonial, first time poster. I’m gonna buy olive oil and lemon juice futures!
quad zombie or no
if the oil helped the stone pass you would notice an oil slick when you pee.
Ignorance is fighting back.
Counter anecdote:
I was doubled over in pain from a kidney stone and the next day passed it painlessly. No lemon and oil was needed.
Science doesn’t work based on anecdote or else we’d be sharing stories about which phase of the moon is most helpful for passing kidney stones.
Where is the “Like” button.
Give him some credit. He admitted his urologist thinks it’s coincidence and didn’t blame BIG MEDICINE for suppressing the cure.
pokes ignorance in both eyes, Moe style
So, sdoone’s kidneys were magically “lubed” by olive oil and lemon juice passing virtually unchanged into them (how this concoction managed to grease the upper and lower urinary tracts to allow one but not all stones to slide out is a mystery, but we’ll take it on faith).
The next exciting event to anticipate is sdoone passing funky globs of stuff out the rectum in what will be taken as gallstones washing out.
But why would you even bother with icky-tasting olive oil and lemon juice, when a couple spritzes of WD40 judiciously applied to skin of your back overlying the kidneys will be absorbed and rapidly cause kidney stones to rattle down the chute and out the ying-yang (to use proper medical terms) like balls in a pinball machine?
Why would he be incredulous at the stone passing with even odds?
My cousin Jethro said there was a 50/50 chance of a coin flip coming up heads. So, I ate some lobster tails before I flipped it. By gum, it came up tails. I won 25 cents, but Jethro got so dang incredulous he beat me up.
So, when I wake up in the hospital, the doctor says there’s a 50/50 chance my leg won’t heal right, on account of Jethro hitting it so hard with that pipe. Ol’ sawbones doesn’t know my sister Raylene is cooking up a pot of chicken legs for me right now. He’s going to be so incredulous.
I’m going to tell him to eat some calf brains and a statistics textbook. That’ll help.
But it was equally likely not to. Something had to tip the scales.
Lots of research that supports the use of lemon juice to treat kidney stones. Sorry to bring up an old thread. Just thought some research might be useful in the face of peoples fear of quack medicine.
When quacks and crackpots distort legitimate science, the legitimate science remains legitimate and the quacks and the crackpots remain risible.