Case Description :
2008
When you notice that your kidney function has slowed down or stopped working normally you will need to make a decision about treatment.
Every aspect of your life will be affected by choice of treatment you make, including your schedule, diet, activities, energy level, and more.
Being diagnosed with a kidney disease can feel overwhelming and you may be anxious about the lifestyle changes it involves. However, you do have a choice of treatment and your healthcare team is there to educate you on all the types of options available to you.
Start the discussion about different treatment options early with your healthcare team and family. This will help prevent the need for hurried and uninformed decision if your kidney function drops faster than you anticipated.
If this happens you may have to start dialysis urgently and may not have time to choose the type of treatment that suits your lifestyle.
There are medical considerations as well as lifestyle considerations for why one type of treatment may be more suitable for you than another. It is important to start your discussion with your healthcare team early, so you understand the different type of treatments in order to choose the right dialysis modality and start planning to begin your treatment.
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Chronic Kidney Disease :
It’s always better to understand the important role your kidney plays in maintaining your health. Learn more about the symptoms and causes of chronic kidney disease.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kidneys play an important role in your health, we are born with two kidneys, one on each side of the backbone just below the rib cage-shaped like kidney beans, each kidney is about the size of a small fist and weighs about 114 grams in size.
Normal healthy kidneys
- Clean your blood and remove extra fluid to form urine
- Keep minerals (sodium, calcium, potassium and phosphorous) in balance
- Help to control blood pressure help to make red blood cells
- Activate vitamin D to keep bones healthy
When your kidneys aren’t working properly, you may be developing kidney failure. Most kidney disease affect the nephrons, which are the tiny filters inside the kidneys that clean blood. When this happens, harmful wastes and fluids can build up in your body.
A number of diseases or conditions can cause kidney failure, including diabetes, high blood pressure, lupus, polycystic kidney disease, glomerulonephritis, injury or trauma.
Symptoms of kidney failure:
Symptoms of kidney failure can vary from person to person, kidney disease is sometimes called a silent disease because some people may not feel sick or may not notice their symptoms until their kidneys are no longer removing waste and fluids(urine)
As the disease gets worse and kidney function slows down, most people experience symptoms of uremia. Uremia means too much urea in the blood.
You may also experience loss of appetite and bad taste in your mouth, vomiting, nausea, weight loss. difficulty sleeping, itching, muscle cramps, and darkening of the skin can also occur
Symptoms of Uremia include:
- Feeling tired and weak
- Swelling of hands and feet
- Shortness of breath
Types of Kidney Disease:
Here are the types of kidney diseases.
Chronic Kidney Failure
Acute Kidney Failure
End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
Monitoring Your Health:
It is wise to understand how slowly or quickly your chronic kidney disease is progressing. Be sure to follow up regularly with your healthcare team.
Kidney Failure Treatment:
It is very important to monitor how slowly or quickly your kidney disease is progressing. Kidney function represents the percentage of your kidneys that is still working. Together with your doctor you will be able to determine your kidney function by keeping a close watch on your serum creatinine a waste product found in your blood, which can be checked with a simple blood test.
There are a number of treatments for kidney failure. These include medications and treatment procedures designed to slow down your kidney disease as well as dialysis that can help remove waste close to a normal functioning kidney.
Health Care Team - We are Together:
It’s a team effort to manage your kidney disease in order to stay healthy
The team includes doctors, nurses, clinicians, pharmacists, social workers and psychologists each of them has individual responsibilities but they all work together to make sure you get the very best of care. Your family and friends also play an important role in helping you and your kidney stay as healthy as possible. REACH OUT TO EVERYONE IN THE TEAM
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2008
It is important to manage kidney disease with help of a team of socialists, including a physician, dietician, nurse and pharmacist. This team of people can tell you what you can do to slow or stabilize the progression of kidney disease.
These measures include-
- Blood pressure control
- Smoking cessation
- Eating enough high quality protein at each meal (eggs, fish, chicken)
- Watching your sodium (SALT) intake which can affect blood pressure, thirst and weight
- Maintaining a healthy weight
- Taking precautions with products harmful to kidneys
Nutrition:
What you eat and drink plays a major role in the treatment of kidney disease. The main goals of kidney diet (Renal Diet) are to meet your nutritional diet needs, reduce the accumulation of waste and slow the progression of kidney disease.
As the disease gets worse and kidney function slows down, most people experience symptoms of uremia. Uremia means too much urea in the blood.
Protein, Salt and Minerals:
Controlling the amount of protein and salt(sodium) in your diet is an important first step. In some cases, the amount of minerals you consume (such as potassium and phosphorus) may also need to be reduced. Reading labels is very important and you may want to avoid phosphate additives in processed foods to protect your kidneys.
Making your own food at home is a great way to avoid excess protein, sodium and additives.
An experienced dietitian should supervise any change to your diet, because maintaining good nutritional status is very important.
Control Hypertention:
High blood pressure and diabetes are the most common causes of kidney failure. Uncontrolled hypertension can speed up the progression of kidney disease. If you are taking a blood pressure medication, it is important to take it as prescribed by your doctor as well, a low –salt diet can help control blood pressure .
It’s not enough to simply reduce the salt you are adding to your food with a salt shaker; you may also need to limit salt in processed foods and restaurants meals (choose low sodium foods).