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Products used to clean out the bowel in preparation for medical tests such as colonoscopies may be responsible for some cases of kidney failure.
 
Biopsies of damaged kidneys have shown phosphate toxicity which could have been caused by these preparations taken by the patients.
 
At question are preparations containing sodium phosphate such as Visicol and Fleet Phospho-Soda.

Bowel-cleansing products, kidney failure are linked -

Biloxi Sun Herald - 3/15/2006 4:07 AM

Certain bowel-cleansing products used prior to colonoscopies are linked to chronic kidney failure, according to Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy organization.
 
It cited recent research published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology showing bowel-cleansing products containing sodium phosphate are an under-recognized cause of chronic kidney failure in the U.S.
 
Common bowel-cleansing drugs that include sodium phosphate are Visicol, a prescription oral tablet, and the non-prescription product Fle
 
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