Fad diet of nuts leaves woman with rare kidney injury
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Knocking back handfuls of almonds and chia seeds each day as an IBS treatment left one woman with an acute kidney injury, according to a rare case report from the US.
While the nuts and seeds provided welcome relief for IBS, their high oxalate levels also caused oxalate nephrology, a rare form of kidney injury, say doctors from the George Washington University school of medicine and health sciences, in Washington DC.