Your Body Will Give You These 7 Signs If Your Kidney is in Danger
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According to health experts,Kidneys are one of the most important organs of the body. They filter blood and remove toxins from the body.
They also produce hormones, control the body fluids balance, and keep the right level of electrolytes. Kidney disease Occurs when your kidneys loses its ability to filter waste from your body sufficiently.
Knowing the symptoms of kidney disease can help people detect it early enough to get treatment.
Here are the signs and symptoms of kidney disease you need to be aware of..
1. Pain in your lower back
Lower back pain is often associated with Kidney damage, failure or infections since this organs sits in the lower back area. This pain can be as a result of kidney stones or even a urinary track infection.
You mean also experience pains in your legs or sides.
2. Changes in your urine
It makes sense to pay attention to Urinary output, colour and frequency. When you’re taking notes of your kidney functions.
Feeling Pressure when urinating and Making more, less urine than usual, changes in the color of your urine, blood in your urine, foamy or bubbling urine might be a sign of kidney disease.
3. Shortness of breath
Being short of breath can be related to kidney disease in two ways. First, extra fluids in the body can build up in the lungs and second, anaemia (shortage of oxygen carrying red blood cells) can leave your body oxygen starved and short of breath.
4. A bad taste in your mouth
If your kidneys are not removing toxins, they accumulate in your body which can cause a metallic taste in your mouth and produce bad breath.
5. Nausea and vomiting
As toxins and waste begins to build up in your blood, it can cause severe nausea and vomiting.
This can also be a sign of urinary track infection, so make sure you speak to your doctor right away, especially if you’re experiencing lower back pain or abdomen too. .
6. Dry and itching skin
This can be a sign of the mineral and bone disease that often accompanies advanced kidney disease, when the kidneys are no longer able to keep the right balance of minerals and nutrients in your blood.
7. Extremely fatigue
Your kidneys produce a hormone called erythropoietin which helps red blood cells carry oxygen. When they malfunction, the levels of this hormone drop drastically which causes a drop in the number of red blood cells in your body resulting to anaemia.
Visit your doctor when you keep experiencing three or four of these symptoms.