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A friend of mine just got told by a doctor he might have kidney stones. I was a bit shocked since he's 24. Googling, I found this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28kidn.html
To the great surprise of parents, kidney stones, once considered a disorder of middle age, are now showing up in children as young as 5 or 6.
While there are no reliable data on the number of cases, pediatric urologists and nephrologists across the country say they are seeing a steep rise in young patients. Some hospitals have opened pediatric kidney stone clinics.
“The older doctors would say in the ’70s and ’80s, they’d see a kid with a stone once every few months,” said Dr. Caleb P. Nelson, a urology instructor at Harvard Medical School who is co-director of the new kidney stone center at Children’s Hospital Boston. “Now we see kids once a week or less.”...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28kidn.html