Health Tip: Prevent Kidney Failure

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Prevent Kidney Failure

Prevent Kidney Failure

Most people do not know about the dangers of kidney disease. Kidney disease is not contagious, but can cause death and required fees will continue to last a lifetime patient.

The kidneys are organs of excretion are shaped like a peanut. Human beings have a pair of kidneys are located behind the stomach. In anatomy, the kidneys have a size like a fist, weighing about 150 grams, 11-12 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, and 5 cm thick. The kidneys are located on the right and left spine, below the liver and spleen. Right kidney usually lies slightly below the left kidney to make room for the heart.

Impaired kidney function can describe the condition of the vascular system so that it can help to prevent the disease early before the patient has more severe complications. Symptoms of this disease can be classified into two categories, namely acute symptoms such as swollen eyes, severe low back pain, pain when urinating, fever, and frequent urination. Moderate chronic symptoms such as weakness, no appetite, nausea, vomiting, swelling, decreased urination, itching, shortness of breath, and anemia.

Early detection of kidney damage is very important to be able to provide treatment immediately, before the damage and further complications. Skrinning examination in individuals asymptomatic (without symptoms) who have risk factors may help early detection of chronic kidney disease. Risk factors are patient with diabetes mellitus (diabetes), obesity, smoking, age over 50 years, history of hypertension and kidney disease in the family.

Kidney failure can be prevented through medical examinations (medical check ups) routine. They are prone to chronic kidney disease should check with your doctor regularly to determine the condition of the kidney, among others, the analysis of urine (urinalysis) to detect whether there is blood, protein, pus, sugar or germs. In addition we can also do blood tests to measure levels of creatinine and blood urea. Creatinine derived from waste generated by normal muscular work. Urea is the product of protein metabolism in the body. If someone is having kidney disorders, will be difficult to remove creatinine and blood urea, so it will settle in large numbers in the blood.

Stage further examination to identify abnormalities in the form of ultrasonic examination (renal ultrasound) if the laboratory examination of urine in finding abnormalities. It was intended to see the shape of the anatomy of patients with kidney and urinary tract. It can be clearly seen the size of kidney patients, whether or not a blockage such as kidney stones or tumors, there is no structural abnormalities of the kidney or urinary tract. Next the doctor will perform a biopsy to determine the type of kidney disorder, if necessary.

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