Can kidney disease be cured or at least slowed down in it's progress?
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Yes.. I have lupus and severe kidney diesease. Had chemotherapy for 3 years, and now on a drug called\n"CELL CEPT".. The both have worked wonders for me.. My kidney function was nearly at 30% three and a half years ago, and now it practically normal again..  Consult a specialist before you try any herbal supplements...... Find a good kidney doc to go to..
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As a person that took dialysis for 7 yrs then I will tell you first hand that if you kidney disease is really bad then it will probably be 4 hours a day for 3 days a week. Over time though as the doctors monitor your situation then they may cut your time by 30 minutes at a time. Also if I may suggest if you are going to be trying for a transplant then I would recommend Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. I hope that this information will help.
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Hi,\n\nI don't think there is a cure for this disease but there are several drugs available and coming through the system that may help ease the problems or slow them down.  \n\nTry these links:\n\nhttp://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/2100/2112.asp?index=8877\nhttp://armor.typepad.com/bastardsword/2004/08/potential_cure_.html\nhttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=35418
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This is very serious!  If you have all of this information, I'm assuming you have a doctor.  In that case you would be placed on a specific diet for kidney dysfunction and on medication.  I would offer you advice, however, your doctor is your best bet.  PLEASE get some medical help.  There are nurses that can teach you how to eat/drink to improve your kidney function before you have to go on a dialysis machine.  Godloveya.
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Good question.  My father died 36 years ago from kidney cancer.  It was horrible for him.\n\nContact the: http://www.curekidneycancer.org/
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Currently there is no cure for PKD, not with conventional medicine or (despite what you have been told) alternative medicine.\n\nUltrasound (sonogram) is usually used to diagnose this especially when the cysts are active. Genetic testing confirms the diagnosis.  CTs & MRIs can be used but are not ususally required.  The extra imaging you have had may have been redundant and unneccessary.  For now, get a hold of all your films, reports and labs -- you will need them.  The main concern at this time is to prevent or control pain, high blood pressure and UTIs and well as find help.\n\nYou may want to contact the Kidney Foundation and see what they suggest.  Call to get an 800 number and check their website.  They may have programs for someone in your situation, programs that will give you immediate help.\n\nMy hope is that you can avoid ESRD (end-stage renal disease), kidney failure and transplant.\n\nI'm not certain if you are eligible for Disability or Supplemental Security Income benefits through the Social Security Administration but it's something to investigate.  You would need the medical information I suggested you acquire and any written physician statements you can get concerning the probable diagnosis.  If I am able to find additional help for you, a grant perhaps, I will contact you if I'm able.\n\nGod bless you and your family.  You're in a very frustrating position but I'm sure there are others who will try to help.  You're not alone!
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At stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) you will most likely notice the following three things. 1st you will become uremic (urine in the blood) from a buildup of urea (a nitrogen waste product) in your blood. This can cause lethargy, difficulty sleeping, trouble concentrating, and nausea/vomiting. 2nd you may start to develope edema (swelling caused by fluid) in your ankles, on your abdomen, in your face or eyes, and in your lungs. This is due to the inabilty of your kidneys to remove excess water from your blood. This can cause difficuly breathing. 3rd you could have an increased potassium level from your kidneys inability to eliminate the extra potassium your body doesn't need that is in the food you eat. An increased potassium level can cause your heart to beat irregularly and you could have a heart attack.\nContinue to treat your cause of kidney disease, it might not progress to CKD 5, at the least you can have more time before you need dialysis.\nThere are two main choices you have for dialysis (this is assuming that you don't change your mind about a transplant). You can have hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Hemodialysis takes between 3 to 5 hours 3 times per week. There are several people who still even continue to work while they use this option. Others do nocturnal dialysis where they dialyze 8 hours at night 3 times per week. Even more of those people work. Peritoneal dialysis is where you dialyze at home by using special bags of fluid that are prescribed by a doctor. Many people that choose this option have a high quality of life.\nCKD is not the end of all quality life. Many people live for many quality years now thanks to new advacements in CKD treatment options.\nGood luck, I wish you the best. Check the website below for more information.
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Diabetic Kidney Disease\n\n    Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure. However, it's also true that most people with diabetes don't go on to have end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). There are many things you can do to control your diabetes and minimize your risk of kidney failure including stopping smoking and keeping blood pressure under control. A federal study called the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial proved in 1993 that intensive management of diabetes can reduce the risk of kidney disease by 50 percent.\n    Intensive management (called tight control) means frequent testing of blood sugar, calculating insulin intake on the basis of diet and exercise, following a diet and exercise plan, and talking often with a health care team whose members are skilled at treating diabetes.\n\nWhat happens?\n    Early in diabetes, the blood-filtering units of the kidneys are damaged. This means important proteins are lost in the urine. A urine test that measures protein can show beginning diseases. Later in the disease, the kidneys can't remove waste products from the blood.\n\nWhat are the stages?\n    There are five stages of diabetic kidney disease with the last stage being kidney failure. On average it takes a person with diabetes over 20 years to progress to the end stage. Both types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2, can lead to kidney disease. Type 1 is more likely to lead to end-stage kidney failure.\n\n    About 40 percent of people with Type 1 diabetes develop severe kidney disease and end-stage kidney failure by the age of 50. Type 2 causes 80 percent of the end-stage kidney failure in African Americans and Native Americans. The key to preventing kidney disease in people with both types of diabetes is not smoking, getting regular blood pressure and urine protein tests, and preventing high blood sugar. \n\n    Often there are no symptoms of the disease until it progresses to the late stages. When symptoms do appear they include:\n\n\nFatigue \nInsomnia \nWeakness \nVomiting \nSwelling\n\nStage I - The flow of blood through the kidneys increases and the kidneys get bigger. People can stay in this stage indefinitely or advance to Stage II after many years. \n\nStage II - Small amounts of blood protein known as albumin leak into the urine. This is called microalbuminuria. \n\nStage III - The loss of albumin and other proteins speeds up. Some patients develop high blood pressure. The kidneys continue to lose the ability to filter waste. Many people are first diagnosed with kidney disease at this stage. \n\nStage IV - In this stage large amounts of urine are passed through the kidneys and high blood pressure almost always occurs. \n\nStage V - The ability of the kidneys to filter waste almost stops. Kidney dialysis or transplants are treatment options. \n\nWays to prevent diabetes kidney problems\nYou can prevent diabetes kidney problems through the following means: \n\nKeep your blood glucose levels under control. Talk to your doctor about your HbA1c test and what your goal should be. \nKeep your blood pressure under control (130/85 mmHg or lower). \nHave your kidneys checked at least once a year by having your urine tested for small amounts of protein. \nTalk to your doctor about being placed on an ACE inhibitor to protect your kidneys. \nHave any other kidney tests that your doctor recommends. \nSee your doctor right away if you think you have a bladder or kidney infection.\n\nRelated articles\n\n\nTreatment with ACE inhibitors can delay kidney damage \nSelf-monitored BP predicts progression of diabetic kidney damage better than clinic BP \nNew Blood Pressure Drug Reduces Kidney Disease \nAngiotensin-II Receptor Antagonist Slows Progress of Diabetic Kidney Disease \nWatch Out for Kidney Disease \nEating To Help Your Kidneys \nNew Thinking about Eating Protein \nADA Issues New Guidelines on Diabetic Nephropathy
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If you have a simple renal cyst, they rarely require treatment intervention. \nhttp://www.urologystone.org/CH14Laparoscopy/renalCysts.html\n\nIf you have polycystic kidneys, no treatment is available for the cysts that occur due to PKD. If the cysts are causing symptoms, these symptoms can be treated so you will be more comfortable.  So, for example, if you are suffering from urinary tract infections, they will treat that symptom.\nhttp://familydoctor.org/142.xml
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It is possible that she only had acute renal failure, which required temporary dialysis. If her lab levels are coming back to normal, and her doctors agree, it is possible for her to stop dialysis without complications. However, if she did suffer some kidney damage it is advisable to check her labs labs like once a year, to assess her kidney function. Good luck.
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In end stage renal disease (ESRD), the blood flow to the kidneys may be drastically reduced due to all the damage to the filtering structures in the kidney (the glomeruli).  Urine output decreases as a result, and toxic substances build up in the blood.  The sum effect of this is "uremia," a complex biochemical syndrome that results from this toxic buildup.  Blood urea nitrogen and creatinine are two blood markers that rise in renal disease.  Electrolyte levels can also become deranged in renal disease.\n\nDiabetes is one of the most common causes of end-stage renal disease.  ESRD is treated by dialysis several times per week -- essentially an artificial filter to take the place of the kindeys.  Renal transplant is often necessary.
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lack of water and other fluids to clean your kidneys
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Yes and the kidney is doing quite well, thanks for asking.
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If you have any doubys about the efficiency of your kidneys, then a kidney cleanse will work wonders, and is not dangerous, so there is nothing to lose.\n\nHave you already gone through the full kidney and colon cleansing processes?\n\n        Kidney cleanse is any procedure that involves drinking a huge amount of liquid, and taking care what you are eating. Just a better diet with more water can be enough! But, also any form of bowel cleansing will also help kidneys! The Master Cleanse Lemonade Diet  is also a Kidney cleanse, juice fasting is also a kidney cleanse, and any other form of fasting that incorporates a lot of liquids, will in the same time clean a kidney. Do you need special herbs? Only if you have acute lower back pain, clear symptom of Kidney stones (sharp glass like crystals, made of phosphoric acid, or sometimes may include other acids). In special occasions, you can get a kidney stone crystallized in less then a few days !!! To melt a stone/stones, you may need a few weeks, or one day with the Watermelon Cleanse.\n\n            Recipes for Kidney Cleanse:\n            Herbal Kidney Clease\n            Watermelon Cleanse\n            Water Cure\n            More on kidney cleanse herbs\n\n        Herbal Kidney Cleanse  Designed by Dr. Hulda Clark from her book "The Cure for All Disease", explains in detail how to cleanse the kidneys, and her cleansing program will get rid of most if not all the stones, WITHOUT surgery.\n        Ingredients:\n\n            1/2 cup dried Hydrangea root\n            1/2 cup Gravel root\n            1/2 cup Marshmallow root\n            4 bunches of fresh parsley\n            Goldenrod tincture (leave this out of the recipe if you are allergic to it)\n            Ginger Capsules\n            Uva Ursi capsules\n            Vegetable glycerine\n            Vitamin B6 250mg\n            Magnesium oxide 300mg or 1/4 cup Green Drink Beverage\n\n        Measure ¼ cup of each root and set them to soak, Together in 10 cups of cold tap water, using a non-metal container and a non-metal lid (a dinner plate will do).  After four hours (or over night),    bring liquid with soaked herbs to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.  Drink a ¼ cup as soon as it is cool enough.  Pour the rest in through a bamboo or plastic strainer into a sterile pint jar (glass) and several freezable containers.  Refrigerate the glass jar.\n        Find fresh parsley at a grocery store that does not spray its produce (ask the owner). Boil the fresh parsley, after rinsing, in 1 quart of water for 3 minutes.  Strain out the liquid, then drink ¼ cup when cool enough.  Refrigerate a pint and freeze 1 pint.  Put the cooked parsley in your compost bucket.\n        Dose:  each morning, pour together ¾ cup of the root mixture and ½ cup parsley water, filling a large mug.  Add 20 drops of goldenrod tincture and 1 tbs. of glycerin.\n\n        Drink this mixture in divided doses throughout the day. Keep cold. Do not drink it all at once or you will get a stomach ache and feel pressure in the bladder. If your stomach is very sensitive, start on half this dose.\n\n        Save the roots after the first boiling, storing them in the freezer. After 13 days when your supply runs low, boil the same roots a second time, but add only 6 cups water and simmer only 10 minutes. This will last another 8 days, for a total of three weeks. You may cook the roots a third time if you wish, but the recipe gets less potent. If your problem is severe, only cook them twice.\n        After three weeks, repeat with fresh herbs. You need to do the kidney cleanse for six weeks to get good results, longer for severe problems.\n\n        Also take:\n\n            Ginger capsules: one with each meal (3/day).\n            Uva Ursi capsules: one with breakfast and two with supper\n            Vitamin B6 (250mg): one per day\n            Magnesium oxide (300mg): one a day\n\n        Take these supplements just before your meal to avoid burping.\n\n
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I'm sorry to say, no there is no cure for it.  There is a lot of research, but no cure yet.  They are coming out with medications that can help.
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This is something a dietitian needs to talk to you about.\n  http://www.davita.com/articles/ckd/all%5Fabout%5Fckd/?id=95  \n  http://www.davita.com/recipes/?CMP=KNC-HC9707948552
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Ya...it can be cured...low blood pressure i am not really sure...but concentrate on the medicine given by the doc...it shd work...