Urinary bladder stones in aboriginal children.
Primary bladder stones are described as occurring in aboriginal children from native reserves. Here breast feeding is supplemented early in life with white flour and little else. A comparison is made between this diet and that of children in endemic bladder stone regions, and reasons are advanced for the formation of these stones, with biochemical evidence to support the thesis that ammonium acid urate precipitation is the initiating factor.
D001942:Breast Feeding; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005502:Food / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D001744:Urinary Bladder Calculi / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples