Kidney Failure, Kidney Transplant, Dialysis, Chronic Kidney Failure,Acute Renal Failure : Home Remedies For Chronic Renal Failure
Kidney Failure
Kidney failure can be grouped into two categories, which are acute kidney failure and chronic kidney failure. Both of these are usually caused by a variety of other diseases and once renal failure is diagnosed the only treatable form of kidney failure are the ones in which the kidney has sustained damage to itself or there is some kind of obstruction in the urinary tract. No home remedy is effective in any of these conditions and modern medicine is the only way to treat these diseases.
Acute Renal Failure Causes
Acute Renal Failure’s causes are categorized as being pre-renal or problems in the blood supply to the kidneys, damage to the kidney tissue and obstructions to the urinary tract. Pre-renal causes include – decreased volume of blood caused by bleeding, dehydration, or overuse of diuretics – thrombosis of the renal vein – low blood pressure and sepsis. Intrinsic causes like damage to the kidneys, toxins, medication, sickle-cell anemia, and inflammation of the blood vessels or glomeruli. Obstructive causes include the widely known kidney stones and other obstructive disorders. Treating acute renal failure involves treating the causes of the failure – usually by regulating the pressure and volume of blood that reaches the kidneys. Drugs that increase blood pressure and promote vascular dilation are used in these instances. Simpler methods are also used like increasing the intake of fluids to increase blood volume as well as increasing the proportion of metabolites like calcium and potassium. If none of these works, a kidney transplant and dialysis are the only ways to survive the disease.
Chronic Renal Failure - Transplant And Dialysis
Chronic renal failure is the progressive reduction in renal function and can be differentiated from acute renal failure by the steady rise in the levels of serum creatinine in the blood. Creatinine is one of the body’s waste products that should be excreted from the body and this process occurs only in the kidneys. Therefore high levels of this in the blood indicates kidney malfunction. A confirmation of chronic failure is made by testing for serum protein and red blood cells from a urine sample. Unlike acute renal failure, chronic renal failure causes an increase in blood pressure and metabolites, due to a lack of excretion of waste products. Chronic renal failure can rarely be treated and can only be monitored to a point where the kidney is declared functionally useless, dialysis and a kidney transplant is the only hope for survival of the patient at this stage.
