Kidney disease usually progresses silently, often destroying most of the kidney function before causing any symptoms. Take care of your kidney health! The kidneys are complicated and amazing organs that do many essential tasks to keep us healthy. The main job of your kidneys is to remove toxins and excess water from your blood. Kidneys also help to control your blood pressure, produce red blood cells, and keep your bones…
Located in the small of the back, one on either side of the spine, our kidneys filter and remove waste products from our body as urine via the bladder, helping us keep our bones healthy and balancing our blood pressure. Some reasons why our kidneys may not work efficiently are aging, medical conditions such as diabetes or hypertension and medications. The kidneys are complicated to say the least and their…
Kidney health and Diabetes The kidney is an amazing organ with millions of minute blood vessels that filter out waste products from the blood via urine. This filtering system can become damaged by diabetes, reducing kidney function. When waste products are not filtered out, the result is kidney disease. While diabetes may be the prime cause for kidney failure, the symptoms from early kidney disease are not apparent. That doesn’t…
March 14 – today – is World Kidney Day. And yes, you can not only keep your kidneys healthy, but also take steps to prevent kidney disease. Fact is, the kidneys, like any other organ, become less efficient as we age. So it makes sense to ensure that we don’t overwork them, make them weak and invite kidney disease. Can we prevent kidney disease? All things considered, we can certainly…
I recall seeing an interesting poster at the hospital when I used to take my mother there for her check-up. It said,”you can be alive if your brain is dead. but if your kidneys stop functioning, you are really dead” or some such thing. Point was – with a temporarily non-functional brain, the body can still be “alive”. But kidneys fail, and that’s the true end. A word about the…