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Keeping your kidneys healthy is crucial for your overall well-being. Kidneys play a vital role in filtering waste from your blood, balancing fluids, and regulating electrolytes. Identifying the early signs of kidney disease can lead to effective treatment and better health outcomes.
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In this blog, we’ll discuss the subtle symptoms you shouldn’t ignore, the importance of early detection, and how regular checkups can help diagnose kidney disease.
While the only definitive way to diagnose a kidney disease is to get confirmatory tests done, here are some of the early warning signs of a kidney disease:
1. Frequent Trips to the Bathroom
Usually the most obvious sign of kidney distress is a change in the habits of urination. One has to keep a very careful watch on his or her urine output. For instance, you may feel the need to urinate more often, especially at night.
It can be a warning sign and may indicate that the kidney filtering units are damaged or in the process of being damaged. Sometimes this can also be a sign of some urinary tract infection or enlarged prostate in men.
Urine production is a function of the kidneys and therefore any major change such as: less urine, urinating more often, change in colour, foam, smell, pain, or blood in urine, can all indicate an issue with the kidneys.
If you find yourself heading to the restroom with increased frequency, it could be a sign that something is up with your kidneys.
Your urine has bubbles that will not go away when you flush the toilet. This foam is similar to the foam you see when scrambling eggs because the protein found in urine is albumin, which is the same protein that is found in eggs.
Excessive FROTHYNESS in the urine indicates the presence of protein in the urine (which under normal circumstances should be negligible). When the filtering mechanism of the kidney has been or is being damaged, protein, blood cells start to leak out into the urine.
In addition to signalling kidney disease, blood in the urine can indicate tumours, kidney stones or any kind of infection. Also, pus in urine along with fever or chills can be serious and may indicate pyelonephritis (infection of the kidneys).
“One of the earliest tell-tale signs of kidney disease is leakage of protein in the urine.” says Dr Goh Huck Keen, Nephrologists at Island Hospital.
You must get a check up from your doctor in order to see if there is any blood present in your urine, which is part of a routine physical.
Blood in the urine is a common symptom of kidney disease, and may make your urine look red or brown. Kidney damage will cause protein to be leaked into your urine, along with blood cells.
It is a good idea to get yearly check-ups, especially if you have any other factors that could contribute to kidney disease such as diabetes.
A trace of one type of protein, albumin in urine (albuminuria) is an early sign of chronic kidney disease. Persistent amounts of albumin and other proteins in the urine (proteinuria) indicate kidney damage.
Musculoskeletal problems are the most common cause of back pain, but occasionally, it could be kidney pain.
If you are experiencing pain that moves towards your side and groin area, or if you have a fever or urinary symptoms, then your kidneys could be the source.
Your kidneys are located in the back of your abdomen, just under your ribcage, on each side of your spine. Pain in your sides or middle to upper back could be coming from your kidneys.
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However, having pain in your back or sides does not necessarily mean there is something wrong with your kidneys. It is possible to have pain on only one side if only one kidney has problem or both sides if both kidneys are affected.
Pain from your kidneys can register as lower back pain, found below the rib cage, or even on the sides. Kidney pain can be so intense that you may not be able to move and even be brought down to your knees from the intensity of the pain.
The kidneys filter wastes from the blood and remove excess water from the body via urine. When the kidneys are not doing their job, this fluid can stay in the system instead of being excreted.
Decreased kidney function leads to sodium retention which may cause swelling in your ankles, feet or legs. Swelling around the hands, feet, and ankles may be associated with kidney or heart failure and should not be dismissed.
One will start to notice edema at these sites which pits on applying pressure and is termed as pitting edema. As the kidney function begins to fall there is sodium retention which causes swelling in your shin and ankles.
In short, any people noting new onset pedal edema should get an immediate evaluation of his/her renal function after visiting nephrologists.
Some causes of kidney failure are treatable and the kidney function may return to normal. Unfortunately, kidney failure may be progressive in other situations and may be irreversible.
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