Showing posts with label Renal Kidney Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renal Kidney Disease. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Renal Kidney Disease.

Renal Kidney Disease.
The kidneys are body organs responsible for the expulsion of waste products from the body system, usually in form of urine. When they fail, the condition is known as Chronic Renal Failure or simply as Renal Failure. Renal kidney disease is affects the kidneys, whereby there is a systematic decline in kidney function and urine output over time.



Mild renal kidney disease is whereby the condition of the kidney has not escalated to the point of Chronic Renal Failure or Chronic kidney disease. However, mild kidney disease can cause increased blood pressure and frequent urination at night. It can also lead to anemia and risk of heart attacks and strokes.



Many people suffering from renal kidney disease are usually unaware, until the later stages where it has worsened to the chronic level, then eventually to kidney failure. This is because the early signs can pass unnoticed, and it may take quite a while, even several years, from the condition to go from mild to chronic kidney disease to kidney failure. In fact, some people may live with kidney disease to chronic levels without ever reaching the point of kidney failure in their entire life.



However, it is very important to be aware if one is having this condition. Knowing about the symptoms of kidney disease can be helpful in getting timely treatment. The following are some of the symptoms of renal kidney disease.



Kidneys are the organs that make urine. Therefore, when the kidneys are failing, the urine becomes frequent with the person having to urinate several times at night. The urine becomes pale, may contain a lot of foam and traces of blood. Others are less frequent and smaller amounts than usual, and difficulty urinating.



Other symptoms include swelling of the legs, ankles, hands and feet. This is because the extra waste fluid in the body cannot be removed due to renal kidney disease. The person feels unusual and constant fatigue, severe itching of the skin, and bad breath or foul taste in the mouth, in addition to loss of appetite. Loss of appetite leads to weight loss. In addition, the person feels nauseated and vomits a lot.



Others include dizziness and diminished concentration, cold, difficulties in breathing, and sometimes the victim may also have back pains. Severe renal kidney disease leads to excessive retention of waste products in the body, and this makes dialysis necessary.






Monday, June 23, 2014

Gfr Kidney Disease

Gfr Kidney Disease
In GFR kidney disease, you are able to see the stages of the kidney disease advancing with each stage showing low or limited functions of the kidney. In a kidney there are Nephrones that give it its own functionality, where each of the kidneys might have around a million. The work of the kidney is so crucial in the body that you might take it for granted. They make sure they have retained your fluid balances as well as balancing some hormones in the body such as the filter and clean wastes, parathyroid hormone and playing an important role in the health of the bone through calcium processing, as they filter elements such as potassium.



In case the kidneys have failed to work properly as desired, the balance of fluids and waste processing will become disturbed greatly. This process of deterioration occurs in duration of many years for many people or in case the kidneys have been injured all of a sudden, they might stop working, in what is called acute renal failure. All individuals having a Glomerular filtration rate or GFR of 60mL/min/1.73 m2 in about 3 months, they are classified as people with chronic kidney disease, whether there is kidney damage or not.



The rationality that has been used in the inclusion of these groups of people is due to the fact that kidney function reduction at this level does represent a loss of half or even more of the normal adult kidney function level, which can also be associated with many other complications. All the people who have kidney damage are also classified as containing chronic kidney disease, whether they have a good or bad GFR level. If you have protein loss within the urine, it might be regarded as a good marker of worsening cardiovascular diseases or worsened renal function.



Kidney damage is said to be a marker of damage or pathological anomaly that depicts such anomalies as shown in urine and blood tests or in imaging studies. With a GFR moderate reduction of around 30-58, you might want to go for referral and screening care to make sure you don't suffer the ensuing consequences. Even more serious, GFR kidney disease reduction with a GFR reading of about 15 to 29 should tell the doctor that you should be prepared for a renal replacement type of therapy, while an established kidney failure with a GFR of 15 and below depicts the need for a permanent kind of renal replacement specialized therapy for your own good.