Your Kidney: Do You Know These Facts

2015-09-30 10:43

1. Why is kidney very important for us?

It is engaged in filtering the blood, regulate electrolyte balance and blood pressure, produce hormones and urine.

2. Kidney disease and kidney failure can be caused by the below:

High blood pressure, diabetes, old age, African American race are the leading causes of kidney disease or kidney failure for people around the world.

3. Severity of kidney failure

By the time passing, kidney function will drop gradually, which causes many complications like heart disease and cardiovascular problems which are very life threatening for patients. Large amounts of wastes and toxins build up in body, resulting in high blood pressure, anemia, bone disease, swelling and blood in urine and muscle cramps and skin problems.

4. Regular tests in daily life

If you have the risks of developing kidney failure or kidney disease, like hypertension and diabetes, it is necessary and important for you to do tests about kidney function regularly. At stage 1 or 2 kidney disease, there are no obvious symptoms showing out at all. Hence, test is necessary and good.

5. In general, tests of kidney disease are:

Protein in urine, GFR( glomerular filtration rate), serum Creatinine level.

6. How to protect kidney in daily life?

Control blood pressure, regulate blood sugar level, keep cholesterol and fat level low.

Do not be overweight or obesity, take regular exercise in life.

Avoid smoking and drinking less.

Medicines which do harm to kidney condition should be avoided.

Eat more vegetables with low salt, low sugar.

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