Comments on: Why Are The Low Oxalate Food Lists So Inconsistent?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 16 May 2014 14:02:20 +0000

Hi, Walt.
The Yahoo Group can be tricky. I’m not sure why, but sometimes people are approved instantly and sometimes people have LOTS of trouble joining. The Facebook group is easy to join. Just click on “join group” and an administrator will approve you pretty quickly. They do not have the master list in a file on that site, but if you post to the group and ask one of the administrators to send you the list, they should get back to you pretty quickly. They’ve sent lists to many people who can’t get on the Yahoo site.

By: Walt

Walt — Sun, 04 May 2014 22:50:51 +0000

Hello Heidi –

I can’t seem to get access to this updated list of low oxalate foods through your Facebook group.

Can you help?

Thank you!

Walt

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:54:37 +0000

Hi, Karen. The Yahoo group can be tricky. I’m not sure why, but sometimes people get in right away and sometimes they don’t. Are you or one of your family members on Facebook? If you join the Trying Low Oxalates Facebook group (very easy — just push the button asking to join and wait for a moderator to approve you), you can ask for one of the moderators to send you a copy of the list by email. You can communicate through Facebook personal messaging to arrange it. I wish I could help past this, but the list contains copyrighted material that I am not authorized to publish or distribute.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:50:41 +0000

Hi, Renee.
Research shows that calcium citrate or magnesium citrate taken 20 minutes before meals can help bind the oxalate in the gut and keep it from reaching the bloodstream, thus helping it pass from the body without causing symptoms or pain in most people. Kidney doctors seem conflicted over whether to prescribe calcium citrate to their patients or to recommend restricting calcium. I would either do what your doctor suggests or possibly ask another doctor for a second opinion. Most of us who do not form stones do take calcium and/or magnesium if our bodies can tolerate it. I sure do.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 01:47:24 +0000

I have been unsuccessful at getting in the Low Oxalate Yahoo group. I really need a listing of oxalate amounts in foods. My husband has had 5 kidney stones removed. We have just been told that they were caused by high Calcium Oxalate in foods. I saved the Autism Oxalate listing that you suggested. I think I must be putting in wrong information.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:23:39 +0000

I’ve been on a low calcium oxalate diet for some years now due to repeated bouts with kidney stones. I’m confused about the consumption of dietary calcium or calcium citrate. Am I supposed to avoid or consume either? I read on another site that I should take calcium citrate daily. It was also stated that taking a cal./cit. tablet with each heavy meal proved to beneficial in reducing the oxalate from that particular meal.

By: Genesis

Genesis — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:26:02 +0000

Hi Kelly,Sorry it’s taken me a little while to find your comemnt amidst the hundreds of spam I’m getting weekly now. I think I saw that you made it over to the TLO board, though (I remember a question like this coming through), so I hope you got some answers there!Anyway, for future reference, diarrhea (of many colors!) is not uncommon when dumping oxalates. If you’re fairly certain that it’s dumping which is causing the diarrhea, the easiest way to stop dumping in its tracks is to raise your oxalate intake. I’m not suggesting you go overboard, but eating a few baby carrots, or a couple nuts, or some other decent-size oxalate load (100mg or so) generally stops it for me.Then you can decide how to proceed. I’m sure you’ve seen advice to lower your oxalates slowly; going too low too fast is bad! (If not, check out my article on ) If you’re dumping too hard (and constant, worsening diarrhea would probably qualify), then when you go back to eating low ox, just make sure you’re eating at a higher level. Hope this helps,Michelle

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:32:02 +0000

Hi, David.
There are some zero oxalate foods, such as eggs and most unprocessed meats. But most plant-based foods and many animal-based foods have oxalate. The goal of the low oxalate diet is to reduce exposure to oxalate, not to eliminate it. Most people on a low oxalate diet try to consume 45 – 60 mg. oxalate per day, although a few need to go lower and others can go a little higher. The only zero oxalate vegetarian (not vegan) protein source I can think of is eggs. Other low sources include cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese, black-eyed peas, red lentils, brown lentils, green peas and yellow split-peas. Green split-peas, kidney beans, chickpeas, pidgeon peas, sunflower seed butter and mung beans are all medium and can be eaten in small quantities as well.
Hope this helps.

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:44:23 +0000

Hi Heidi,
I just turned 60 and had my first kidney stone.

Can you please explain if there are 0 oxalate foods. Is there a safe amount of oxalates that can
be consumed daily? What is a good source of 0/low oxalate vegetarian protein?
Your website will hopefully help me figure out what I can eat without worrying about kidney stones.
Thank you.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:49:26 +0000

Yes, that number per slice is considered medium. That is odd about your PDF chart. Did you go back to the site and try to re-download it, just in case something weird was going on that day?