2012/01/07

You Need to Know About Chronic Renal Failure ?

Chronic Renal Failure will usually happen in stages and not all at once. The frequent causes of CRF are from:
1. Uncontrolled diabetes type 1 and type 2
2. Uncontrolled Hypertension
3. Chronic Urinary Tract Infections
4. Polycystic Kidney Disease
5. Glomerulonephritis is a chronic kidney destructive problem that gradually tears away at the glomeruli in the kidney.
When you are having chronic renal faliure, your kidneys are slowly dying until your kidneys reach end-stage-renal failure. In the earliest stages of chronic renal failure, there will hardly be any symptoms that are noticed. As it continues to progress however, symptoms will slowly appear. The symptoms that are the most common as chronic renal failure progresses are:
1. Hiccups
2. Tiredness
3. Malaise (Unwell feeling)
4. Sick to your stomach and throwing up meals a lot
5. Weight loss that is unexplainable
6. Bad headache pain
7. Intensive itching that will drive you crazy
8. Hypertension
9. There is a high amount of protein in the urine
As chronic renal failure goes on, there will be some very debilitating symptoms that will continue. These prominent symptoms are those like:
1. You are vomiting up blood
2. Not producing very much if any urine, and what little produced is blood
3. Not feeling anything
4. Leg cramps
5. Urea on the skin and breath which is in the form of a chalky type of white substance
When urea is appearing on the skin, it means uremia, which is a fancy medical term for kidney failure.
Blood tests in chronic renal failure in the first stages will not be that bad. But as this process goes on, the blood tests will show some very poor results.
Creatnine blood levels will rise, and the glomerular filtration rate (gfr) will steadily drop. This is telling you that your kidneys want to perform less and less.

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