How to keep your kidneys healthy?

The kidneys are organs that perfect day to remove many toxins from our body. Kidneys have a large reserve capacity, but all of the body has its limits. Sometimes we really ruthless with our kidneys.Imagine just how much salt you add the daily? Other toxins that we consume every day I will not even mention. Imagine how many hours for your kidneys? 

Numerous diseases of the kidney and urinary tract may be preventable if you take care of your diet regime.
For healthy kidneys should drink plenty of water, avoid oily and salty food and do not swallow many pills and the least headaches. Pain pills can be very dangerous for your kidneys. There is a disease in which is called analgesic nephropathy, which means kidney damage caused by painkillers.

Kidneys are the perfect filter system, but the kidneys have a number of other roles in the body.Participate in the regulation of blood pressure and maintain normal blood composition.
Symptoms of kidney disease are unfortunately very insidious and occur in late stages, when the disease is already awful lot advanced.

Below are a few golden tips to maintain the health of your kidneys:

1. Take in 2-3 liters of fluid in your body every day. In particular, you need to take care of taking sufficient fluids during the hot summer months, the fierce heat. This will prevent the formation of kidney stones.

2. Do not over-salted food. Excessive salt intake further burden the kidneys and causes the development of high blood pressure.

3.  Reduce the intake of protein and fat

4. Control your blood pressure High blood pressure is the companion of kidney disease and may be the first and only sign. Pressure above 140/90 mm Hg requiring medical treatment and medicines for high blood pressure.

5. Control your blood test. Anemia can be a sign of kidney disease.

6. Control your urine. Protein in the urine is a sign of kidney damage. Urine sediment may indicate a urinary tract infection. Frequent urinary tract infection can permanently damage your kidneys and it's important timely and proper treatment. The values ​​of urea and creatinine in the blood parameters of renal function. Higher values ​​indicate kidney damage. Do not wait to serum creatinine increase, track common finding urine. Even a small amount of protein and blood in the urine can be very dangerous.


7 . Control your blood sugar. The majority of patients with terminal renal failure with diabetes. The majority of patients on dialysis for many years of diabetes. If you have diabetes, make sure the body weight and blood pressure. Blood pressure in people with diabetes must be well regulated! If there are people in your family who are suffering from diabetes, control your blood sugar.

8. Intake of antioxidants such as coenzyme Q10, vitamin E, vitamin B complex.

9.  Beware of painkillers
Do not go overboard with analgesics. Frequent use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can lead to severe kidney damage.


10. Do abdominal ultrasound
Ultrasound is a very simple, painless and inexpensive test that in the early stages may indicate kidney disease. This technique is very easy to show kidney stones, cysts, enlargement (dilatation) of the urinary tract, brain tumors and other pathological conditions.
Keep your kidneys. Hemodialysis patients are very unhappy people. Only when you see this scene you realize how important health is. Good day, my friends.

What is dangerous for your kidneys?

The man does not know how lucky he is when healthy. In working with patients with renal failure, dialysis, which sustains life, I realized just how important the kidneys and how little we are trying to ease their hard work. On the contrary, most of us every day doing things that threaten the health of our fellow kidney.

The kidneys are organs that steam have many functions in the body. The kidneys filter the blood and removes harmful substances from our body maintain fluid and electrolyte balance, regulate blood pressure and produce substances that maintain normal blood composition (erythropoietin). The basic unit of the kidney is called the nephron. Kidney nephrons filter every 45 minutes the whole blood from the body and produce about 2 liters of urine in 24 hours.

Kidney, liver, together with the most powerful natural mechanism to detoxify our body and disrupt their daily health. Every few exceptions!

The following is the story of substances in large quantities and daily consumption harm our body.

1 Increased intake of salt
In moderate amounts of salt is necessary for our bodies, but larger amounts cause us harm. When you eat salt and salty foods make a great load for the kidneys, besides increasing blood pressure. The high pressure damages the body and all organs, primarily the kidneys, heart. brain and eyes. One teaspoon of salt a day is quite enough. People who are diagnosed with a kidney disease and high blood pressure should reduce salt in your diet.  Reduce consumation of salt meat products (pâté, salami, ham, sausage, dried meat) and salty cheeses. Soup from the bag are also unhealthy.

2 Painkillers can be dangerous
There are certain groups of drugs that are highly neprotoxic. Some of these drugs, such as aminoglycoside antibiotics can rapidly and in a short time, damage your kidneys. Also Tylenol, which is widely used in daily life, headache, fever, pain in the bones, to soothe menstrual pain also damage the kidneys. a kidney disease called analgesic nephropathy. I tell you this name speaks for itself.Kidney damage can make some medicines for high blood pressure.

3 Sugar is also not harmless

Excessive sugar intake can cause multiple problems such as obesity and diabetes. Do not forget the fact that the highest percentage of patients to hemodialysis because of diabetes.

4 Cigarette smoking

Ingredients other than tobacco smoke damages the lungs and heart, damage blood vessels and kidneys.The kidneys are mostly built of blood vessels, and smoking increases the risk of just blood vessels thrombosis.  Particularly dangerous cigarette smoking among people with diabetes.

I tried briefly to show you how important it is to think of the daily health of your kidneys. Kidneys have a large reserve capacity. The biggest problem with kidney disease is that it is difficult to detect in the advanced stages.
One common urine test can tell you a lot. Never frivolous understand the presence of proteins (protein) in the urine. If you have high blood pressure, be sure to check kidney function. If you have anemia in blood Always check kidney function!