Can you get stones if you swallow limescale from a kettle?

Because the water is drunk into the stomach, the liquid in the stomach is strongly acidic, no matter the water we drink contains too much calcium or too many other ions, after the decomposition of gastric acid, some free ions will be formed, so it does not have the opportunity to form stones, because most of these ions are discharged, part of it is discharged, and part of it is absorbed and utilized by the body.

The formation of kidney stones includes calcium ions and magnesium ions, and when the concentration of these ions is too high, they precipitate into the urine to form some small crystals. The concentration of ions in the water that is drunk is especially within the qualified range of tap water allowed by the state, and the concentration of these ions excreted is far from reaching the concentration of precipitation to form stones, so there is no need to worry about causing stones.

In daily life, we can see every day that the pure and transparent tap water is heated in a container, when the water is boiled, if the fire is not stopped immediately, the water will become more and more turbid, and there will be some white sediment at the bottom of the container or in the cup after a while, which is what we commonly call scale. Since people drink a lot of boiled water every day, they will inevitably drink a lot of limescale. According to chemical analysis, natural water contains a variety of minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, iron and various trace elements.

Scale is formed by the precipitation and precipitation of these minerals after heating to form water-insoluble salts. After we drink water, these minerals enter the human gastrointestinal tract, most of which are mixed with stomach acid, intestinal juice and food to form various substances that are not absorbed by the intestines, and are excreted with feces, and very few are really absorbed by the human body. The causes of urinary calculi are complex, and there are many types of stones, mainly caused by the imbalance of crystal and colloidal matrix.

Crystals can be divided into calcium-containing and calcium-free types, the common ones are calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate and magnesium ammonium phosphate, urate, followed by calcium carbonate, cystine, uric acid, xanthine, etc. In the process of forming stones due to the imbalance of crystal and colloidal matrix, it is also affected by many factors, such as urine pH value, urinary tract infection, urinary tract obstruction (such as urethral stricture, prostatic hypertrophy, etc.), urinary tract foreign body, increased urine calcium (such as hyperthyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, vitamin D toxicity, long-term bed rest, multiple myeloma, metastatic malignant tumors, leukemia, lymphoma, idiopathic infantile hypercalcemia, myxedema), Vitamin deficiency (such as vitamin A deficiency, vitamin B6 deficiency), region, climate, living environment factors (dry climate, hot climate, sweating, more minerals in drinking water), physical activity, ethnic differences, etc. Therefore, only a small number of people will get urinary stones when they drink limescale water.

Some people associate the scaling phenomenon in boiling kettles in daily life with human stone disease, which is a wild speculation without scientific basis.

Quanzhou Baixin stone disease experts said: In fact, the scale in the boiling kettle has nothing to do with stone disease.

The difference between the two is that the mechanism of formation is fundamentally different:

The scaling in the boiling kettle is a simple physical phenomenon, after the water is boiled, the calcium and magnesium ions in the water combine with the carbonic acid to form some insoluble substances precipitated - scaling, this process is different from the human environment.

There are many reasons for the formation of gallstones, but the main one is a change in the composition of the bile.

More people lack medical knowledge, stone disease is a pathological state, is a complex physiological and biochemical process, stones are stones from the appearance of the stone, but it is from the epithelial cells shed from the organism, clots in the organs, parasitic cell bacteria in the body, roundworm residues or eggs to form the core, phosphate, oxalate, urate and so on in the body are deposited on these rough cores, forming stones.

Therefore, stones are not really "stones", but the result of the joint action of various substances in the body, but simply look like stones.

Therefore, there is no need to worry, the sediment and minerals in the well water and field water will not directly precipitate in the gallbladder to form stones.

I believe that through the above introduction, we have a detailed understanding of whether the scale precipitated by the boiling kettle will cause stones. I hope the above introduction will be helpful to you.