Chronic Kidney Disease Stages

Chronic Kidney Disease Stages
Chronic kidney diseases are also known as chronic renal diseases. This disease is caused by the failure of the kidney functions over the years or months. There are no specific symptoms of this disease but patients at first generally feel uncomfortable and they suffer from reduced appetite. Chronic kidney diseases are generally identified while checking other kidney related problems such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Chronic kidney disorder is identified by blood test done for creatinine. Creatinine can be normal in the initial stages of the disease but it can be identified by the urinalysis. During urinalysis results can show that whether kidney is performing the functions normally or not. There is no specific treatment of this disease and it can be cured by completely transplanting kidney in the final stages. It's a kind of dialysis. Some of the stages which are involved in this chronic kidney disease are described below:

1. Stage 1 - at this stage the normal functions are slightly diminished and the glomerular filtration rate is more than 90 ml/minute. At this stage chronic kidney disease can be identified by the urine test.

2. Stage 2 - the glomerular filtration rates decreases rapidly and comes to 60 to 89 ml/minute. Kidney damage is also starts at a greater rate. Functions start to diminish rapidly. Kidney allows proteins and other useful substances to flow out with urine.

3. Stage 3 - the reduction in the glomerular filtration rates increases and it reduces to 30 to 59 ml/minute. The kidney damage is about 30% and the kidney functions poorly. This stage is considered by the doctors as the stage before the maximum damage or complete failure.

4. Stage 4 - at this stage kidney functions very badly and the glomerular filtration rates are reduced considerably to 15 to 29 ml/minute. Kidney at this stage losses the power to filter urine properly. At this stage doctors generally prepares for renal replacement process as this is the stage where replacement is the only option.

5. Stage 5 - at this stage kidney fails permanently and the glomerular filtration rates get reduced to less than 15 ml/minute. Kidney stops functioning and so the only option to cure this disease at this stage is permanent replacement of kidneys.

The main cause of chronic kidney disease is hypertension and diabetes nephropathy. These two reasons of chronic kidney disease, account for more than 79% of total adult kidney cases.