Health Tips: Common measures for early detection of kidney disease

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Currently, kidney disease is becoming a major public health concern. Kidney disease is usually not diagnosed until it is very advanced. That is, only when a person needs dialysis or a transplant does he know that he has a kidney problem.

Health Tips: Common measures for early detection of kidney disease

The main challenge is to detect kidney disease before the problem starts. Regular testing is very important for that, and even more so for people at risk of kidney disease.

6 things healthy kidneys do

Balances body fluid levels
Filters waste and toxins from blood
Produces hormones that control blood pressure
Activates vitamin D to keep bones healthy
Red blood Releases hormones that direct cell production
Balances mineral levels in the blood (sodium, phosphorus, potassium)

7 problems that kidney disease can cause

Heart disease
Heart attack and stroke
High blood pressure
weak bones
drug damage (neuropathy)
kidney failure (end-stage renal disease, or ESRD)
anemia or low red blood cell count

5 main risk factors:

diabetes (you or your
High blood pressure (in you or your family)
Heart disease (in you or your family)
Kidney failure Family history
Obesity

Additional risk factors

Age 60 or older
break Low birth weight
Prolonged use of pain relievers
Lupus as well as other autoimmune disorders
Frequent urinary tract infections
Kidney stones

Signs of a potential problem

Most people with early kidney disease have no symptoms, so early detection is important. By the time symptoms appear, kidney disease may be advanced, and symptoms may be more ambivalent. Look out for:

fatigue, weakness
difficult and painful urination
foamy urine
pink, dark urine (blood in the urine)
abnormal thirst
abnormal urination ( especially at night)
Burning eyes
Swelling of the face, hands, stomach, feet

‍ 3 simple tests

Blood pressure (BP test)
High blood pressure causes small blood vessels in the kidneys (glomeruli) can damage. It is the second leading cause of kidney failure after diabetes. Blood pressure below 140/90 is good for most people. If you have chronic kidney disease, it's better to be below 130/80. Below 120/80 is considered best.

Protein in the urine (urine test)
The appearance of a type of protein in the urine, albumin (albuminuria), can be an early symptom of kidney disease. The regular appearance of albumin and other proteins in the urine (proteinuria) indicates kidney damage.

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (blood test)
It measures how well the kidneys are filtering blood. Doctors measure the level of creatinine in the blood and calculate it to find out the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).

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