Children with a Single Kidney

2015-11-23 07:05

For healthy children, they are born with two kidneys, which is just like we have two ears and two legs. Nevertheless, some infants can be born with only one kidney, the chance of which is about 1 out of 1000. This time we will discuss children with a single kidney functioning in detail.

Causes of infants with only one kidney functioning are due to:

1. some medicines can contribute to deformity of infants, which may cause only one kidney functioning.

2. intraindividual variation can also lead to infants with a single kidney existing or functioning.

3. during pregnancy, some damage or malnutrition is likely to make infants have a single kidney.

But the exact reason for a single kidney in infants is not clear now. one sure thing is that a single kidney does not belong to genetic diseases. Child does not inherit this from parents with a single kidney.

Only one kidney functioning will cause the below problems:

To tell the truth, as our kidney has the property of compensatory function, people with a single kidney can also live as well as people with two ones, but this single kidney must be healthy. For children with a single kidney, kidney will grow bigger than healthy kidneys because it needs to do more work to maintain health.

In later life, some people with only one kidney are likely to have kidney disease like high blood pressure, proteinuria. Hence, it is necessary for children with one kidney should do regular blood pressure and urine tests in life.

In conclusion, children with a single kidney should take care of the left kidney very well to prevent damage and decline of kidney function in daily life. If there are anything wrong with the kidney, timely treatment should be needed. Chinese medicine can improve kidney well to prevent further deterioration and repair kidney damage by promoting blood circulation, expanding blood vessels, recovering kidney function gradually by the time. In this way, kidney failure can be prevented very effectively with Chinese medicine. More or any question, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctor anytime, reply will be given for you very fast.

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