How Bad Health Leads to Kidney Disease?

by Rahul Kumar Health and Medical

It's no secret that practicing a sedentary or inactive lifestyle, such as poor sleep and lying or sitting too much, can leave some severe physiological abnormalities by making you obese. Obesity is the known cause of many serious health conditions by weakening your immune system, making you vulnerable to having problems like- high cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure levels. All these complications can also affect your kidneys' health by interfering with their functioning.

People in their 20s often live in denial that problems like kidney failure won't happen to them. Kidney problems have always been projected as a problem with ageing, but this is not the case now. The rapid inclination of people towards inactive lifestyles with poor diet management makes kidney problems fairly effective to people of all ages.

Let's understand how unhealthy lifestyle habits can keep your kidneys at stake.

How can bad lifestyle habits affect your kidneys' functioning?

Sedentary lifestyle habits can make you obese, which enhance all causes of mortality by doubling the risk of having problems, such as hypertension, diabetes, and uncontrolled cholesterol levels that can also affect your kidneys functioning; let's understand how. 

Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition in which your pancreas fails to produce enough insulin relevant to the breakdown of glucose (sugar) that we collect from our diet. After you have your meal, your digestive system breaks down carbohydrates into glucose that enters your bloodstream. After that, your pancreas shoots a hormone known as insulin that lets glucose be absorbed by cells to be used for energy or storage.

When your body fails to use insulin, this condition increases the level of sugar in the bloodstream, making your blood thick and hard to get filtered by your kidneys.

Symptoms of diabetes

●      Fatigue

●      Blurred vision

●      Increased thirst

●      Unexplained weight loss

●      Slow-healing sores

●      Fatigue

●      Extreme hunger

●      Having ketones in the urine

●      Frequent urges to pass urine

High blood pressure

High blood pressure mainly occurs in people who consume more than 2,300 mg salt every day in their diet, which can be hazardous for health. Excessive salt intake can increase blood pressure that can damage the walls of blood vessels from the inside, which eventually leads to a low blood supply in your body's primary organs, including kidneys. Lesser, no blood supply to your kidneys can impair your kidneys' functioning.

Symptoms of high blood pressure

●      Chest pain

●      Having blood in the urine

●      Severe headaches

●      Having trouble breathing

●      Nosebleed

●      Having irregular heartbeat

●      Fatigue or confusion

●      Pounding in your ears, neck, or ears

●      Blurry vision

●      Dizziness

●      Sweating

●      Facial flushing

●      Nervousness

High cholesterol levels

Uncontrolled cholesterol levels can be hazardous for your kidneys. Cholesterol is a waxy fat-like substance that, if increased, can start layering inside the blood vessels that supply blood to your kidneys. Lessor, no blood supply to your kidneys can impair your kidneys' functioning. 

Symptoms

High cholesterol doesn't show any symptoms; a person can only detect it through a normal routine blood test or emergency events with chest pain.

How can we detect kidney complications?

Kidney failure is a progressive loss of kidney function that gets severe over time. A person with complete kidney failure won't notice any visible signs at the beginning, however as the disease progresses with time, they may feel some symptoms, including the following- 

●      Blood in urine

●      Having frequent urges to pass urine

●      Loss of appetite

●      Sudden weight loss without even trying

●      Having foamy and bubbly urine

●      Itching and dry skin

●      Shortness of breath

●      Feeling exhausted

●      Confusion

●      Feeling pressure or pain in the chest

●      Muscle twitching

●      Peeing less than normal

●      Fever

●      Rash

●      Nosebleed

●      Swelling, joint pain

●      Come in severe cases

Don't remark on these symptoms as your call for action because it's hard to control kidney failure if symptoms are visible. It's advised to take preventive measures rather than dealing with the problem later. If you're looking for a reliable cure for kidney dysfunction, then try Ayurvedic treatment for kidney failure to regain your kidneys' functioning. Ayurvedic herbs are based on formulating several powerful herbs that can effectively restore the damage from scratch and reverse their kidneys' functioning.

Be kind to your kidneys

Your fist-sized kidneys purify around 200 litres of blood every day without any gap. Therefore, it's your paramount responsibility to keep them healthy and functioning. This can be achieved by practicing some good lifestyle habits, which include-

●      Keep yourself hydrated

●      Limit your salt intake

●      Avoid processed or canned foods

●      Avoid foods high in artificial sweeteners or preservatives

●      Exercise regularly for at least 1 hour a day

●      Eat healthy diet

●      Take good sleep

●      Don't take the stress

●      Avoid consuming pain killers, antibiotics, or other medicines

Is there any special diet for kidney patients? 

Yes, kidney patients are advised to strictly restrict themselves from various foods and ingredients high in fat, sodium, phosphorus, and potassium substances. These are heavy substances that may require extra work by your kidneys to maintain a healthy level of salt, fluids, and other substances that we consume from our diet. To prevent your kidneys from getting further damage, your doctor may prescribe you a special kidney-friendly diet that mainly includes foods, such as-

●      Red grapes

●      Red bell peppers

●      Black peppers

●      Onion

●      Garlic

●      Cabbage

●      Apple

●      Pineapple

●      Papaya

●      Potato, once in a week

●      Egg whites

●      Skinless chicken 

Foods that kidney patients have to avoid

●      Processed or canned foods

●      Red meat

●      Chicken

●      Avocados

●      White bread

●      Noodles

●      Fizzy and flavored beverages

●      Bananas

●      Dairy products, such as butter

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