HOW DOES YOUR

KIDNEYS DO? Signs and

symptoms
of
 Feel tired or short of
breath
 Not feel like eating
 Have swollen feet and
ankles
 Have trouble thinking
clearly
 Have trouble sleeping
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 Have dry, itchy skin
 Have muscle cramping
at night
 Need to go to the
bathroom more often,
WHAT IS KIDNEY especially at night.
FAILURE?  Have puffiness around
your eyes, especially
Kidney/renal failure is also known as end- in the morning.
stage kidney disease, it’s a medical condition
in which the kidneys are functioning at less
than 15% of normal. Kidney failure could be
classified into acute which develops rapidly
and may resolve, and chronic kidney failure,
which develops slowly and cannot be
resolved.
TREATMENT OF KIDNEY
FAILURE
Kidney disease can sometimes lead to kidney
failure (also called End-Stage Renal Disease).
There is no cure for kidney failure.
A person with kidney failure needs to have
one of these treatments to live: Hemodialysis
A way of cleaning wastes and extra fluid from
the blood artificially. ● The person’s blood is
pumped out of the body through an artificial
kidney machine for cleansing and then
returned back into the body.
Usually, hemodialysis treatments are needed Republic of the Philippines
three or four times a week, and each CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY
treatment lasts around four hours. Don Severino Delas Alas
Campus
Hemodialysis patients must follow a
Indang, Cavite
restricted diet and must take a variety of
medicines and vitamin supplements.
Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) – ● A second way of
cleaning wastes and extra fluid from the
blood artificially. A permanent, soft tube
called a catheter is used to fill the abdomen KIDNEY/RENAL FAILURE
with a cleansing liquid called dialysis solution.
● The walls of the abdominal cavity are lined
with a membrane called the peritoneum. The
peritoneum lets wastes and extra fluid pass
from your blood into the dialysis solution.
●Wastes and fluid then leave your body when
the dialysis solution is drained. This is called
an “exchange.” ● These “exchanges” happen
several times a day. ● PD patients also have
diet restrictions. ● PD diets are usually not as
strict as hemodialysis diets.
Kidney Transplant – ● A procedure that
places a healthy kidney from another person
into the body. ● The new kidney takes over
the work of the two failed kidneys. ● The
donated kidney may come from a living
donor, or from someone who has just died TAWIAH BERNICE EBBI
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