How to prevent yourself from the kidneys failure?
People usually ask about what can be the symptoms of kidney failure and the answer is during its first stage certain signs are hidden and not shown receiving screening that includes pressure measurement, blood test and urine test therefore is essential. Moreover, sometimes if the blood test and urine test result found abnormal the doctor may suggest patients to receive additional screening for the urinary system such as ultrasound.
Everyone can have “Kidney failure”?
For parent who have kids and pay less attention on this issue and people who have old parents that think their parents are still healthy just so you all know that this disease affects everyone from every age (Kids – Elderly) and patients that have been suffered from chronic condition before the last time moment of their life there is hidden condition of kidney failure, neither more nor less.
Kidney disease that occurs in young people often found in group of patients called Glomerulonephritis most of the time a condition leads to the kidney failure at the end; around 100,000 of people have risk of Glomerulonephritis (2-3 people) that is because the condition can happen to younger people contributes to the kidney failure.
Most of patients after having a cold will come with swelling and proteinuria ailment or having blood in urine and infected digestion system; more importantly, patients with Glomerulonephritis never realize such a condition regarding hidden signs so they mostly found out after screening coincident. Another true sad story is many students detected the kidney failure right after their first check-up before attending to the first life in the university without noticing the signs, imagine that, how parents and the student would feel through that and this issue becomes skeptical why schools system have no rule of health check-up for young kids.
Regarding the disease…are both kidneys will be injured?
In general, we can still be alive with only one kidney certain disease that affects one side of kidney such as ureteric stone therefore does not cause us the kidney failure. Moreover, for those who wonder that the kidney failure may or may not be able to spread to the both sides of kidney factually, this notion is correct, that is because by the time when you are told about having the kidney failure it explains the phase of disease where both kidney are already damaged severely. At the same time, contributors like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Glomerulonephritis all are included as disease that causes bad disturbance to the both kidneys.
Kidneys failure prevention
Another suggestion to prevent the body from the kidney failure is that we all need to start drinking more water, avoiding a use of painkiller, controlling sugar consumption, checking pressure, exercising and start receiving kidney screening; regardless of age it is not necessary that you are young or old as the disease can happen to anyone and more importantly symptoms of kidney disease will never sign until it severely spreads to the kidney and you must constantly receive hemodialysis according to follow-up plan.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Pattana teng-umnuay
Specialist of kidney diseases (Nephrology) Phyathai 2 Hospital
For more information, please contact
Medicine Center 1st Floor , Building A
Phyathai 2 Hospital
Tel. +662-617-2444 ext. 4104, 4106 Phyathai Call Center 1772
