Did these people never have a blood test/urine test prior to this? Normal Kidney disease should show up on tests long before the stage of collapsing.
I'm not a doctor, but if its sudden onset, all in a similar socio-economic-cultutal group, i would assume there was some sort of toxin they were all exposed to, perhaps at work.
The best guesses are both chronic rather than single acute injuries. High heat, dehydration, hard work, exposure to nitrites and who knows what else.
It’s mysterious because the specific etiology is unclear and therefore hard to prevent, since telling field workers not to work in the heat will be ignored by all involved.
profsummergig 6 minutes ago [-]
are these the same workers who pluck vegetables while they're being sprayed with pesticides and herbicides?
bamboozled 3 minutes ago [-]
I wonder if this is what regulations were for?
ggm 30 minutes ago [-]
A disease which targets latinx? seems more likely its field workers, inadequate hydration and bad fluid hygene overall.
Could be culturally diet influenced as well.
My urologist after I had my first oxalate kidney stone said "you can drink a litre of water a day, or you can pay for my yacht upgrade. It's your choice" -but the main thing was to limit oxalate rich foods or take adequate citric acid alongside/soon after. Obv there are many kinds of kidney disease aside from stones, but the commonality here about 'use it or lose it' with heat, fluids, work strikes me.
tptacek 15 minutes ago [-]
Hard to imagine a diet of cultural significance that would put people into lifelong dialysis, at an epidemic scale.
nine_k 2 minutes ago [-]
A diet that makes a particular infection easier to take root is very imaginable.
card_zero 14 minutes ago [-]
What's the popular food that contains lots of oxalates? I don't see anyone binging on sorrel or star fruit or parsley.
christophilus 7 minutes ago [-]
It’s in loads of things. Peanuts, spinach, beans, chocolate, avocados, corn, soy… the list is endless. If someone is really sensitive, they can have problems with high oxalate foods. Some people seem to accumulate oxalates, meaning their problems compound, where others have no problem at all. Biology is weird.
nine_k 4 minutes ago [-]
Spinach. Many nuts, e.g. almonds. Many beans (including cocoa but excluding coffee). Well, potatoes!
thelastgallon 9 minutes ago [-]
Spinach. Maybe other leafy vegetables.
jrootabega 7 minutes ago [-]
Spinach and almonds.
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I'm not a doctor, but if its sudden onset, all in a similar socio-economic-cultutal group, i would assume there was some sort of toxin they were all exposed to, perhaps at work.
The best guesses are both chronic rather than single acute injuries. High heat, dehydration, hard work, exposure to nitrites and who knows what else.
It’s mysterious because the specific etiology is unclear and therefore hard to prevent, since telling field workers not to work in the heat will be ignored by all involved.
Could be culturally diet influenced as well.
My urologist after I had my first oxalate kidney stone said "you can drink a litre of water a day, or you can pay for my yacht upgrade. It's your choice" -but the main thing was to limit oxalate rich foods or take adequate citric acid alongside/soon after. Obv there are many kinds of kidney disease aside from stones, but the commonality here about 'use it or lose it' with heat, fluids, work strikes me.