Dr Surinder Sodhi
World Kidney Day is celebrated all over the world on second of Thursday in the month of March in order to raise the public awareness about the importance of kidneys and their contributions to the overall health. It is celebrated to make the common public aware about the diseases and problems of the kidneys in order to reduce the occurrence of kidney diseases as well as all the associated health problems of the kidneys. Some of the objectives of celebrating the world kidney day are mentioned below:
It is celebrated to highlight the kidney problems related to the common health disorders like diabetes, high blood pressure which may lead to the Chronic Kidney Diseases.
Celebrated to encourage the common public through the systematic screening of all patients having problems like diabetes or hypertension.
Celebrated to motivate and promote the common public for the better prevention by describing them all aspects of the prevention measures in order to get prevented from such kidney problems.
Celebrated to instruct the medical professionals about all aspects of the kidneys as well as teaching them to play their key role in the detection and prevention of kidneys problems among the people of high risk populations.
Celebrated to get together of all the medical professionals from the local and national health authorities in order to control the spread of Chronic Kidney Diseases.
Celebrated to deal with the high risk problems as well as implement the new strategies by motivating all the governments’ authorities.
Celebrated to encourage the people about the kidneys donation and transplantation as a best option of life saving for getting free from the kidney failure or other Chronic Kidney Diseases.
Celebrated to encourage the people for the early detection and prevention methods of the kidney problems to reduce the future complications and deaths and disability from the chronic renal and cardiovascular failure.
Rules for Better Kidney Prevention
Any of the kidney disease attacks like a silent killer and affect the quality of life. Below are mentioned some easy steps to get prevented from the risk of developing kidney problems:
Help your kidneys by keeping yourself fit and active as exercises helps in reducing blood pressure and thus reduces the risk of developing Chronic Kidney Disease. This event celebration motivates people for daily walking, running and cycling exercises.
Help your kidneys by maintaining and controlling the normal the blood sugar level as high blood sugar level lead to the diabetes and thus kidney damage. This event celebration motivates people with diabetes to get regular medications, tests and check up of their kidney functions.
Make your kidneys healthy by regular monitoring of your blood pressure as high blood pressure lead to the heart attack or stroke thus causes kidney damage. The normal blood pressure level of any person is 120/80. This event celebration encourages people to adopt healthy lifestyle and dietary changes, discuss their problems with doctor, monitor blood pressure on regular basis and etc.
. Keep your kidneys healthy by eating healthy and maintaining normal weight as overweight and unhealthy eating habit lead to the diabetes, heart diseases and many other problems lead to the Chronic Kidney Disease. This event celebration motivates people about the dietary habits and weight control measures like reducing the salt intake (5-6 grams or 1 tsf of salt a day), limit the intake of processed or restaurant foods, daily physical exercises and etc.
Keep your kidneys healthy by maintaining the normal fluid intake on daily basis (at least 3 to 4 litres a day) as it helps the kidneys to filters out sodium, urea and other body toxins from body which may lead to the risk of developing chronic kidney diseases. World kidney day celebration on global basis encourages the people about proper fluid intake.
Keep your kidneys healthy and fit by avoiding smoking or getting in contact with other smoking person as it slows down the blood flow to the kidneys which lessens their ability to function well as well as enhances the risk of kidney cancer by 50%. This event celebration promotes the people to keep their kidneys healthy by demonstrating the loss through smoking.
Keep your kidneys healthy by avoiding the intake counter pills on regular basis as these are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen) which may lead to the kidney damage and various diseases. Such medications may cause arthritis or back pain and put your kidneys at risk.
Keep your kidneys healthy by getting proper and regular check up of your kidney functions and developing of diabetes, hypertension, obese, family history of kidney disease and etc.
Symptoms of Kidney Problems
Most of the people never show symptoms until they get advance. However, some of the symptoms like swollen ankles and legs, fatigue, early tiredness, difficulty in concentration, low appetite, haematuria or occurrence of blood in urine, albuminoria or foamy urine or occurrence of albumin protein in urine etc can be felt if noticed carefully. Some other symptoms of reduced kidney functions are:
Alteration in the amount of urine, appearance of urine and frequency of passing urine during night
Pain in abdomen in the kidney areas
Difficulty in sleeping
High blood pressure
Headache
Shortness of breath
Feeling of vomiting or vomiting
Bad breath
Early Detection of Kidney Diseases
Most of the people ignore their common problem that’s why they remain undiagnosed in the early stages of kidney problems. World kidney day celebration is a way to call everyone on stage at one place in order to get checked early if developing or having any risk of kidney disease. This event celebration brings people together and encourages them about the simple kidney function tests to get diagnosed of any risk factors which may lead to kidney problems.
Never let your kidney problems destroy your precious kidney functions as they progresses very silently without any symptoms. The early detection of kidney problem is very necessary to get the suitable treatment to prevent your kidney damage, deterioration and complications. Through this event celebration, simple laboratory tests of kidney are carried out by taking small samples of blood in order to measure the values of creatinine, albumin excretion and estimate the GFR (glomerular filtration rate).
The availability of Serum Creatinine level in the blood, albumin in urine and blood sugar level measures the overall kidney health and its functions or Glomerular Filtration Rate. Creatinine, a waste product comes from the muscle activity, is generally getting removed from blood through the normal kidney functions, when its level rises in blood it denotes the slowness in kidney function. Normal GFR is 100 ml/min, but when it falls below 60 ml/min it indicates some serious kidney problems and immediate need to meet your kidney specialist. The presence of albumin in urine indicates the risk of GFR problem and premature heart attacks or strokes.
(The author is a Neprologist Deptt. of Nephrology SSH Jammu)
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