Kidney Disease

There are many kinds of kidney diseases. A disease of the kidney may be a short-term problem, quickly remedied without causing permanent kidney damage. Kidney infections and kidney stones are just a few of the types of common kidney ailments that can be treated without long-term damage. Dehydration, trauma, and some medications are also known to cause temporary changes in kidney function. Acute renal failure is a sudden or rapid loss of kidney function that can be reversed but might alternatively, lead to permanent loss of kidney function.

More often, diseases affecting the kidney are chronic problems. Chronic renal failure is a loss of kidney function that occurs gradually and is often silent, going undetected for months or years. Once it is detected, kidney function can be monitored by periodic blood or urine tests from year to year.

Examples of chronic diseases that cause kidney damage over many years are high blood pressure, diabetes, and polycystic kidney disease. When the kidneys permanently lose 90% or more of their function, a person is diagnosed with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). People with end-stage renal disease must undergo permanent dialysis or receive a donated kidney by transplantation in order to stay alive.

Two bean-shaped organs

Your kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fists in diameter. They are located near the middle of your back, just below the rib cage. Each kidney contains about a million tiny structures that filter blood called nephrons. They remove waste products and extra water, which become urine. The urine flows through tubes called ureters to your bladder, which stores the urine until you go to the bathroom.

Damage to the nephrons results in kidney disease. This damage may leave kidneys unable to remove wastes, and the damage slowly occurs over many years. There are no obvious symptoms to kidney disease, so you don't know it’s happening until considerable damage or loss of function has taken place.
Many things can cause kidney disease. You are at risk if you have:

• Diabetes
• High blood pressure, or
• A close family member suffering from kidney disease.

What are the symptoms of CKD?

Chronic kidney disease symptoms are silent early on in the disease, but once the disease begins to take hold, symptoms are more evident and need to be watched for.

Symptoms of chronic kidney disease:

• Fatigue and unexplained tiredness
• Feeling weak
• A loss of appetite (anorexia)
• Inability to sleep.
• Inability to think clearly.
• A swelling of the feet and ankles, and
• Nausea.

What is kidney dialysis?

Dialysis is a type of renal replacement therapy providing a life supporting artificial kidney function (waste removal) for patients suffering from renal failure. Dialysis is used to treat very sick patients who have lost their kidney function (acute renal failure) or for quite stable patients who have permanently lost their kidney function (end-stage renal failure).

Healthy kidneys remove waste products (for example, potassium, acid and urea) from the blood and excess fluid (urine) from the body. Dialysis treatment duplicates both of these bodily functions as dialysis (waste removal) and ultra filtration (fluid removal).

Am I at risk for CKD?

You are at risk if someone in your family has CKD or if you have diabetes or high blood pressure. Talk to your doctor about your risk factor’s as it’s important to catch kidney disease in the early stages.

How else is CKD treated?

We offer specific preparations that aid a patient’s kidney cells by rejuvenating them to normal or near normal levels. As the kidney cells revive during treatment, we generate regular reports on the treatment’s progress.

CKD sometimes causes anemia. Anemia occurs when your blood doesn't have enough hemoglobin (protein that carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body). Symptoms of anemia include a feeling of being tired and weak. If you have anemia, you may need to take erythropoietin injections. After treatment, your hemoglobin level will go up and you won’t require any further erythropoietin injections.

You may, however, need to lower your triglyceride and cholesterol levels. Triglycerides are a type of fat that is often found to be higher in people suffering from kidney disease. Our natural medicine will also lower your triglyceride and cholesterol levels.

Chronic kidney disease also changes the way your body uses minerals like calcium and phosphorus. And as a result, your bones could become more brittle and weak.