23/06/2023
Kidney disease is a common problem affecting about 10% of the world’s population. The kidneys are small but powerful bean-shaped organs that perform many important functions. They are responsible for filtering waste products, releasing hormones that regulate blood pressure, balancing fluids in the body, producing urine, and many other essential tasks. There are various ways in which these vital organs can become damaged. Diabetes and high blood pressure are the most common risk factors for kidney disease. However, obesity, smoking, genetics, gender, and age can also increase the risk. Uncontrolled blood sugar and high blood pressure cause damage to blood vessels in the kidneys, reducing their ability to function optimally.
When the kidneys aren’t working properly, waste builds up in the blood, including waste products from food. Your kidneys filter waste and extra fluid out of your blood so they can be removed from your body in your urine. When your kidneys stop working and can no longer do their job, it’s called kidney failure.
If you’re a man or woman in your forties, fifties, sixties or seventies then there’s a better than even chance that you will be suffering from kidney related issues and will be experiencing a range of common symptoms including:
• Sharp Pain – You keep having this sharp pain in your back, belly and waist side which comes and goes, the pain change location and intensity
• Urgency – You only just went to the toilet 30 minutes ago but you feel the urge to urinate again. You feel like a prisoner in your own home, unable to move more than 100ft from the nearest toliet.
• Swelling – Your legs, feets and ankles are swelling, with puffy face, accompany buy vomitting and nausea feeling
• Burning Urination – You just have this pain and burning sensation when you urinate
• Bloody Urine – You just went to the toilet and you observe your urine to be brown, pink and red colour. Also you notice it is foamy, having foul smell and cloudy
• Weak Flow – Eventually you manage to find release and start a flow, but its barely going, it’s dripping, it’s stopping and starting, it’s just not what it should be.