Are you really taking care of your kidneys? How to avoid or live with kidney disease?

A scourge that continues to grow since more than 11,000 people each year learn that they suffer from end-stage chronic renal failure requiring replacement therapy (dialysis or transplant). 39,000 people are carriers of a kidney transplant and 14,000 patients are awaiting a kidney transplant while 48,000 patients are on dialysis. An alarming finding that could be improved by early detection.

Get tested to better protect your kidneys:

Simple tests can detect kidney disease, either by blood test or urine test with a dipstick.
Prevent Kidney Disease Through Screening: Kidney disease is often difficult to spot in the early stages. The first symptoms can easily be mistaken for symptoms of overwork such as fatigue, or fluid retention. It is the role of the general practitioner, the occupational physician, but also the diabetologist, the cardiologist in some cases to diagnose the disease as early as possible. There are several tests available to detect kidney failure and to determine if they can remove toxins and waste products from the blood effectively.

• Urinalysis: the first step to follow

Simple laboratory tests can thus detect kidney damage at an early stage and prevent the risk of further deterioration of kidney function. One is the urine test, which can look for the presence of blood and a protein called albumin in the urine which normally is filtered by the kidneys. The presence of albumin is a sign that the kidney filters are damaged. The higher the amount of albumin in the urine, the more likely kidney function is to deteriorate over time.

• Blood test: presence of toxins?

A blood test measures your serum creatinine level, which helps determine if the kidneys are filtering blood adequately. Creatinine levels increase when kidney function deteriorates. Deteriorating kidney function means that the kidneys cannot remove toxins and wastes from your blood as well as those of a person with normal kidney function.
Estimated kidney function (or percentage of kidney function) is called glomerular filtration rate (GFR) or estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) which is the most common way to measure kidney function in the clinic.

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