Kidney Failure
November 11, 2008
Kidney failure is termed as Renal Failure or as Renal Insufficiency. Kidneys are the major organs of excretory system of our body which remove waste from our health system in the form of urine. The other major responsibility of kidney is to filter between salt and water and to keep a balance between water and electrolyte content of blood.
We can divide kidney failures under two major types like chronic kidney failure and acute kidney failure. In chronic kidney failure the affected patient suffers from low and gradual deterioration of kidney functions and in acute kidney failure suffers from sudden drop in kidney function and performance.
Kidney is consisted of innumerable nefrons. When the nefrons lost their capacity to filter, the damage set in the health system. But damage to the nefrons is caused mainly due to some sort of injury or may be due to some sort of poisoning. However, the most adverse factor of kidney disease is seen quite a few years after, when the attack has set in the system and initiating the failure of the same resulting in recurring major health disorder.
The major two diseases that intensify the chance of kidney failure are high diabetes and high blood sugar. Some other causes of kidney failure are pyelonephritis, polycystic kidney disease, severe trauma, birth diseases, acute viral infections like AIDS, Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis –C, long-term medication of ibuprohen, aspirin, and acitaminophen kind of drugs, health conditions that make it difficult to urinate like enlarged prostrate, kidney stone, and tumors, however, there are some more reasons to initiate this kind of renal failure.
The kidney failure displays zero symptoms in the preliminary stage however with advancement in time and intensity some symptoms may be seen in the affected patients. Numbness in hand and feet as well as hands and feet become swollen, itchy skin, major retention of fluid, abnormal fatigue, and partly insomnia may be imposed on the affected person. Loss of appetite, nausea, high blood pressure, muscle cramp, shortness of breath are seen in the patients of kidney failure in advanced stage, which results either in heart failure or in dropping into coma that implies brain death of the patient.
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