Symptoms of Kidney Disease

Symptoms of kidney disease should be known, by both men and women, because kidney disease can affect anyone, especially those who do not maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Symptoms of Kidney Disease can be found in the elderly, and even young people. According to one medical specialist in internal medicine, and renal consultant, namely Dr. Stump D. Situmorang, SpPD-KGH, he revealed that not a few people who are still young, but already experiencing kidney failure. Therefore, everyone should strive to keep their kidneys in order to function properly.

Kidney is one of the most important human organ that serves as a means of spending (excretion) which dispose of human remains of the metabolism of the human body. If the human kidney is not functioning properly then the metabolic waste that cannot be removed from the body would be a very dangerous poison and this is called kidney failure by the medical.

Symptoms of Kidney Disease

Symptoms of Kidney Disease

Kidney Disease
What's Kidney Disease? When described in more detail kidney disease is a disease in which kidney function be dropped which resulted in the kidneys are less able to work well for filtering body electrolytes, maintaining the balance of chemicals in the body (sodium and potassium) in the blood or urine output and fluid balance.

What causes a person affected by kidney disease? There are many possible causes for a person affected by kidney disease, including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, kidney disorders, urinary tract blockage or damage to cells in the kidneys filter function.

Many people who do not know clearly kidney disease, most simply understood that kidney failure is a form of kidney damage, even though there are several types of diagnosis of kidney failure. Among the diagnosis of kidney disease are as follows:
1. Acute Kidney Disease
Acute Kidney disease is a type of kidney diagnosis first. At this diagnosis, someone has decreased kidney function occurs suddenly. In some cases, treatment is given by way of treatment of dialysis therapy or blood laundering.

2. Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic Kidney Disease is a type of the second diagnosis. In the chronic kidney disease are phases or stages, starting phase 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Patients have results glomerulus filtration rate, which is below 60 ml/min/1,73m2 and already more than three months. Type of chronic renal failure means that the damage has reached three months initially found that the structure of the organ histopathology functional kidney damage, i.e. abnormalities in the urine tests and blood tests.

In the fifth stage of chronic kidney disease is terminal renal failure, where renal function has been greatly decreased patient or have the results of LFG is under 15ml /min/1,73m2 resulting in uraemia, the disruption of the blood platelets, so patients must perform the function of renal therapy as a substitute so that kidney function may be taken over in removing toxic substances (toxins) that are in the body.

Moreover, in this phase is expected to sufferers also started keeping lifestyle behaviours to prevent the body in more dangerous conditions. Remember! An ounce of prevention is much more important and valuable than that of a kilo of treatment.

According to Professor Rully, I Kidney Disease is an advanced stage of chronic renal failure in the previous stages, the health of the patient's body in a stable condition.

In addition, in some cases, essential for dialysis therapy or blood washing serves to replace the damaged kidney function so that patients can maintain life.

According to the Head of Nephrology of Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute in New Delhi Dr Sanjiv Saxena Telling that, "Kidney Disease more triggered by the occurrence of adverse effects on Mellitus patients with diabetes, hypertension, kidney stones and also drugs antibiotics and painkillers. Disease this should be wary because they do not have the initial symptoms of a specific disease to kidney failure."

Dr Sanjiv also added that people with diseases such as diabetes and hypertension Mellitus encouraged to frequently check blood sugar levels and blood pressure and also frequent check-ups.

Better to prevent than to cure. Perhaps the adage that are most appropriate for disease problems. Prevention of kidney disease can be done with a healthy lifestyle, controlling the food, do not consume alcohol, maintaining a healthy weight, reduce fat and cholesterol diet, avoid smoking and increase physical activity by exercising regularly.

Thus an article about the symptoms of kidney disease you should know and be aware. may be useful for all of us.

Diabetes and Hypertension is a major cause of Kidney damage

Kidney Function
Kidneys are the organs of the body toxic waster sophisticated, the size of a fist and shaped like beans (ears). There are 2 pieces of kidney and is located at the waist. Kidneys every day processes an average of 2,000 liters of blood and produce 2 liters of sewage and water. Wastes in the blood come from the combustion of muscle and from the food. The body takes nutrients for energy and cell replacement. Once the nutrients taken, the rest is returned by the body into the blood.
Kidneys filter waste and throw it away. If renal function decreases, the waste will accumulate in the blood so harmful to the body because it is like poison. Filtration in the kidney made by a small nerve called the nephron.

In this nephron blood capillaries intersect with neurological or urinary tube called a tubule (bladder).
When the wastes and fluid are separated from the blood and into the urine disposal system, there was a complex chemical exchange process.

Kidney Cross Section

At first tubule accept waste and other chemicals that are still useful for the body. Kidneys then measured levels of chemicals (such as sodium, phosphorus, and potassium) and returns again to the blood.

Thus kidney function:
a. Filtering remains of combustion products and excess water from the blood and throw it in the form of urine     into the bladder via the ureters.
b. Set the required chemical constituents of the body.
c. Issued three hormones: erythropoietin or EPO, which stimulates the bones to make red blood cells, called     renin, which regulates blood pressure, the active form of vitamin D which helps maintain calcium for bones     and for the balance of chemicals in the body.

A pair of kidneys are functioning optimally called function 100%. This condition is actually exceed the body's needs, because many people are born with only one kidney and they live a healthy life is not problematic. In this case, people still can live a healthy life with 50% kidney function.
If renal function decreases to below 20%, it will be a big problem and if the function is only 10-15% (renal failure), people will not be able to live longer (NIH Publication No. 01-4694).

Kidney diseases attack the nephrons generally that causes a decrease in filtration capacity. Nephron damage can occur quickly (acute) poisoning or accident, or it could be damaged slowly (chronic) and a look after a few years.

The main cause of kidney damage is due to diabetes (type 1 or 2), or high blood pressure, while other causes eg poison, drugs are eaten continuously for a long time or drugs that are harmful to the kidneys.
Diabetes is a disease that causes the body can not use sugar as it should. Blood sugar can not be broken down and remains in the blood that are toxic. This condition is caused nephrons become damaged.

Other major kidney damage causes of high blood pressure or hypertension. Hypertension can lead to rupture of capillaries in the nephron. This causes damage to blood vessels in the kidneys filtering process waste becomes normal.