KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

The Family of the donor patients is one of the important issue. This is also a way to build a success to a kidney Transplantation. Proper explanation to them (family) may lead to a quick approval, most likely a patients of a vehicular accident while patients are still alive.

The one-year survival rate for kidney transplant patients is about 95 percent.

Some kidney transplant patients have survived more than 25 years. Because people have two kidneys but need only one. About one-third of transplanted kidneys come from living relatives and about two-thirds are from someone who recently died.

Many patients whose kidney failure was cause by diabetes mellitus receive a pancreas normally secretes insulin, a substance that helps the body use and store sugars. In some diabetic, the body's immune system destroys insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas. In many cases, the disease can be controlled with shots of insulin. However, if the diabetic requires a kidney transplant, the surgeon will often transplant a pancreas at the same time.

Kidneys are the most common organs to be transplanted. Kidneys remove waste products from the blood stream. If they fail, often as a result of diabetes mellitus or cancer, a person can die from the buildup of this toxic materials.

The waste products can be removed artificially through a process called kidney dialysis, but the patients must be hooked up to the dialysis machine two to three times each week for as long as 12 hours at a time.

Kidney transplant free the recipients from dependence on dialysis. If the kidney is rejected, the patient must go back on dialysis or receive another transplant.

SUGAR IN URINE

Sugar in the urine, or glycosuria

Sugar when present in the urine requires further study in order to determine its significance.
sugar in the urine maybe be a temporry condition, due to eating large quantities of sweet, or to temporary emotional exitement, business worries, etc. it may be a chronic condition, due to derangement of disease of certain organs; this constitutes diabetes mellitus.

A temporary glycosuria is not of any importance exept that it may show a tendency toward the development of diabetes mellitus. Therefore, the sugar in your urine may depend upon your diet, and may bepresent only on certain days and not on others.

The amount of sugar in the urine usually indicates the severity of the condition. a mild diabetes is very amenable to treatment without much discomfort to the patients. It cannot always be entirely cured but it can be arrested or ameliorated.

The new remedy, insulin, is unquestionably of great value, especially in controling the advanced or complicated cases. It furnishes the body with a substance that helps utilize its sugar. It can, therefore, be used over a long period of time but its use must be under the supervision of a competent physician.