KIDNEYS AND THE HUMAN BODIES

Each human being is made up of billions of cells working 24 hours a day., producing toxic wastes which circualte through the blood. Causing it to become somewhat polluted. It would take very little time for the accumulation of these wastes to intoxicate the human body and death by poisoning could result. Fortunately, the kidneys are there to filter the blood-they remove toxins from the blood, eliminating them from the body in the form of urine. withoutkidneys, one would not survive the inevitable "blood pollution"

when kidneys stop functioning:

Various diseases can attact our kidneys, reduce their effectiveness and renal insufficiency would result. As the kidneys lose their filtering ability, the toxic waste accumilate in the blood and eventually when their lavel becomes sufficiently elevated, symptomps such as fatigue, lost of appetite and nausea appear. Ultimately, uremia, which is the accumulation of one of these wastes in the blood (urea), could kill.

• Preventing kidney failure
  It might take a while for symptomps to appear, that is when ore than 75% of the kidneys have ceased functioning. with the help of blood and urine test, kidneys failure may be detected before the appearance of symptomps. It is therefore possible to find the cause of renal insufficiency, perhaps correct it and threby save the kidneys. However, even if a cure i not possible, treatment can always be undertaken to minimize the progression of renal insufficiency. Diabetes and hypertension are the two major causes of renalinsufficiency which can be prevented by controlling these two problems with a proper diet and when neede, the appropriate medication.
• Treating Kidney failure
  Medical research has resulted in the discovery of techniques which can cleanse the blood of these toxins when the kidneys have completely ceased functioning, dialysis under the form of hemodialysis or peritonal dialysis. Thanks to this techniques, iremia does not kill anymore. However, the most satisfying solution still remains kidney transplants. unfortunately, the number of donors is not by any means sufficient to meet the even increasing need for kidneys.
  

KIDNEYS ROLES TO OUR BODIES

Kidneys play many important roles:

• they control the production of red blood cells through the bone marrow, they help maintain a normal blood pressure,they control the quantity of water in the human body along with the adequate absorption of calcium and they are also necessary to build strong bones.without kidneys, anemia would result and our bones would break very easily. Moreover, kidneys act as the chemists of the body by maintaining the precise chemical composition of the blood.
• Once again, medical research has discovered means of replacing the kidneys in all their functions should they fail.For this reason, kidney patients require a lot of medication along with dialysis treatments. from the avobe, one can fully realize the importance of healthy kidneys as well as medical research; it allows for a better quality of life for those who have lost the use of their kidneys.

THE WARNING SIGNS

Unfortunately kidney disease usually progresses very silently, often destroying most of the kidney function before causing any symptomps, Therefore, people at high risk of developing kidney disease should be evaluated regularly.

These people include:

• People with diabetes
• People with High blood pressure
• close relatives of people with hereditary kidney disease.