Syag Lchochma – “My sister’s stones were calcium but my dad’s were oxylate (sp?) He had to avoid anything with that in it.”
BB152 -“Oxalate or Calcium are the likely compositions of the stones.”
Oxalate is a type of Calcium stone. (There are others.) Like Calcium oxalate.
So it’s not Oxalate or Calcium -just Calcium.
There are 4 major types of stones. Listed in order of prevalence:
Calcium stones
Struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) stones
Uric acid stones
Cystine stones
Calcium stones have many causes. Two of these were mentioned above.
Struvite stones usually from an UTI or other infection.
Uric acid stones usually from Gout.
Cystine stones -very uncommon.