Tofu Loving Man Has 420 Kidney Stones Removed In Two Hour Surgery.

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We imagine that anyone who has suffered from having the odd kidney stone will have some sympathy for a man who had to endure two hours of surgery to remove not the odd stone, but 420 of them!

The man He Dong attended his local hospital, the Dongyang People's Hospital in Jinhua city of East China's Zhejiang province, completely doubled up in pain. He underwent a CT scan which revealed that the cause was due to an accumulation of stones in his left kidney. The 55 year old had surgery on his kidney which lasted two hours during which the surgeons removed the stones by forceps one at a time.

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It was revealed later that the surgeons have blamed He Dong's his poor health on his high protein tofu diet, this is apparently high in calcium sulphate and he hardly ever drank water. Explaining Dr Wei Yubin said: "Soy products, especially gypsum tofu, are very high in calcium, the excess of which cannot be excreted from body without a sufficient intake of water."

Now this is not the first time the man has suffered from the problem, he had 10 stones removed 20 years ago using lithotripsy, a medical procedure that destroys kidney stones. His medical records also show that some of the stones had been diagnosed several years ago, but he chose to do nothing about it.

He Dong has been firmly ordered to change his eating habits, but confessed he does not like drinking water. He has also been told to cut down the amount of his favourite tofu and as a reminder he has been given the stone to keep stones as a souvenir.

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