KONTAN.CO.ID – Kidney disease is the 10th leading cause of death in Indonesia, with more than 42,000 people per year. People need to be vigilant, by recognizing the signs and symptoms of kidney disease.
Kidneys function to get rid of metabolic waste in the body. All processes in the body will be excreted through the liver and kidneys. Excretion from the kidneys is channeled through the urine.
The function of the kidneys in addition to producing urine is as a fluid balance. For example, when the air temperature is cold, the body will urinate more often. Conversely, if the air temperature is hot, the body will feel lack of fluids.
Chairman of the Indonesian Nephrology Association (Pernefri) dr. Zulkhair Ali said, if the kidneys do not work, then there will be kidney failure. Common kidney diseases that people experience are:
- kidney stones
- kidney infection
- kidney inflammation
- kidney due to diabetes
- kidney due to hypertension
- kidney due to lupus
- kidney due to polycystic
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These diseases can reduce kidney function. Decreased kidney function is divided into two: acute kidney disorders and chronic kidney disease. In chronic kidney disease, there is a phase called acute on chronic
“What is interesting is, in acute kidney disease, the patient’s symptoms look very severe but can recover completely,” said dr. Zulkhair, quoted from the Ministry of Health website, Friday (18/3).
“Meanwhile, with chronic kidney disease, the patient does not feel anything, there are no symptoms, but when it is severe, he finally has to have dialysis and cannot be cured,” he said.
Chronic kidney disease is a global health problem because the prevalence of kidney failure is increasing day by day.
Not only that, the disease is progressive and irreversible, has a high mortality rate, and is expensive.
Therefore, it is necessary to do prevention with early detection of patients with kidney disease.
Prevention is ideally from the normal phase, namely screening people who are not sick to find out whether there are risk factors for kidney disease or not.
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