Tips for Healthy Kidneys

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By 2016 it is estimated there are 36 million of the world's population died due to kidney disease. In addition to the death threats, chronic kidney disease sufferers (in a prolonged period) will also be dealing with konsekuensiuntuk undergoing blood wash (hemodialisa) 3-5 times a week for life. But if found early, treatment can be done more quickly in order to prevent further kidney damage. Diabetes mellitus, hypertension and Kidney Damage Triggers Obesity leading cause of disease/kidney damage is diabetes mellitus and hypertension. High blood sugar levels in a prolonged period of time, as happens in uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, kidney damage and decrease its ability to filter the blood and remove the rest of metabolism to the urine. On hypertension, high blood pressure causes damage to the organs spilling of blood vessels, including the kidneys. Therefore, people with diabetes mellitus and hypertension should be aware of kidney disease. In addition, a person who is overweight, experienced obes/nephritis (inflammation of the nefron) and cysts in the kidneys or stone should be aware of the same.

Stages of kidney damage early chronic kidney disease Stages marked with this sign of small amounts of albumin/protein into the urine or called with the condition of microalbuminuria. Albumin is a molecule with a size big enough so that the healthy condition in the kidneys will not be able to pass through the ' sieve ' glomeruli. However, due to damage to the ' sieve ' glomeruli, parts of albumin may qualify and out with the urine. At this stage the filtering function of the kidneys is still running normally, and if directly handled kidney function can still be repaired. When kidney damage continues, a protein that escaped past the ' sieve ' glomeruli will more and more, to over 300 mg per day. This condition is known as macroalbuminuria or proteinuria. Kidney function at this stage began to degenerate and the body will begin to experience complications due to tertimbunnya ' junk ' is the remainder of the metabolism that fail are discarded. What is the consequence if the kidney damage late know? Kidney damage progresses slowly over the years and without any symptoms, so it is often too late to detect or detected when the kidney damage is already at an advanced stage, which required serious handling such as hemodialisa or even a kidney graft. Although hemodialisa and Kidney Graft will help sufferers, but the handling of this will affect the quality of life and cause side effects that are not few. Therefore the prevention of kidney damage with monitoring further stages of kidney function periodically is essential.

How to monitor kidney function periodically?

Two of the checks can be used to monitor kidney function is Cystatin C and Quantitative Urine Albumin. Examination of Cystatin C using blood samples, used to forecast Rate estimation/Glomerulus Filtration (eLFG) i.e. how much of the blood that can be filtered by the glomerulus (kidney filter unit) in one minute. This eLFG value reflect kidney function. When the levels of Cystatin C rise, meaning the eLFG down and filtering function on the glomerulus declined, so did the kidney function. A person declared to be suffering kidney disease if eLFG less than 60 millimetres per minute and if this lasts more than 6 months are referred to as Chronic kidney disease. In people with diabetes, The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends measurement of eLFG at least once a year. Examination of Quantitative Urine Albumin is the examination that measures the levels of albumin in the urine sample of swaktu or urine collected in a certain time, as a marker of kidney damage. If you use the urine during the additional examination needed, creatinin for correction.

A person declared to be suffering kidney disease if there are 30 mg albumin > per 1 g creatinin settled > 3 months with or without decrease of LFG. THERE are and the NIH recommends an examination of urine albumin to persons with diabetes mellitus type 2 every year since undiagnosed, or since the 5th year for persons with undiagnosed diabetes mellitus type 1. TIPS for HEALTHY KIDNEYS in addition to conducting monitoring of kidney function periodically, some healthy habits below will also

help keep your kidneys healthy:

1. Maintain ideal body weight
2. Drinking plain water as needed
3. Reducing salt consumption
4. Doing physical activity 30-60 minutes a day
5. Eating healthy food
6. Not very frequent consumption of herbal drugs
7. Not very frequent consumption of chemical drugs

By adopting a healthy lifestyle and monitoring kidney function periodically, more perfected double protection for your kidneys.

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