if you have low blood pressure and kidney disease on dialysis how can you raise low bp naturally?
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If you are on dialysis, please bring this question to your doctor and don't take suggestions from well-meaning folks who have no way of understanding your particular case.\n\nI can picture how frustrating this situation would be, and how physically lousy the person would feel, but don't mess around.\n\nTalk to your doctor.  If at all possible, insist that your doctors communicate with each other.
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See a nephrologist. Cranberries are very good for kidneys. Also all the B-vitamins.
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because you have no way of expelling the excess amount of fluid but the next dialysis. and until then fluid will accumulate in your internal environment, raising your blood pressure causing edema to accumulate around your lungs. and causing many other troubles
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Anemia from bleeding, Chronic Kidney Failure. End stage Kidney Disease- Dialysis patients
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I am 22 years old and I have level 2 hypertension (really high bp for my age), and I have found that there are many things that can help drop the pressure. Try eating less sodium (salt) in your foods. Excercise daily. Stay away from caffiene as much as possible or any other stimulant for that matter. RELAX, being angry also raises your blood pressure. Dont smoke. Do not take over the counter allergy medicine without consulting your doctor first. In most cases high blood pressure is un-curable but can be tamed. Usually it is hereditary so medicine is a must. If you do decide to go with the medicine, make sure that it is right for you. I was taking a certain med and it just made my heart race, so I guess you could say it made things worse. Hope that all this helped.
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Blood pressure is controlled by a number of factors including fluid and salt intake.  High intakes of both (especially salt) can raise your blood pressure.  There are many different types of drugs that can help you lower you blood pressure.  It depends on your overall health and the cause of your high blood pressure what is prescribed.  I would talk to your doctor, but in the meantime watch your salt intake if you are worried about high blood pressure.
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You're right in saying low blood pressure. The average persons blood pressure is around 130 / 70, although this can vary dramatically, depending on your overall fitness, weight etc. The lightheadedness comes from your blood surging down to your feet when you stand up, resulting in a reduced pressure of blood to the main organs of the body.
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From http://www.kidneyschool.org , Module 11 Sexuality and Fertility; For Men (pdf): http://kidneyschool.org/pdfs/Module11Male.pdf\n\n"Men on dialysis or with kidney transplants have\nfathered healthy children. But kidney disease can\nreduce the number and quality of your sperm.\nThis can make it harder to fertilize the egg.\nDoctors define “infertility” as a couple not getting\npregnant after more than a year of trying. If you\nand your partner want to have a baby of your own,\nit may be wise to involve your doctor up front.\n\nThe fewer years on dialysis, the more plentiful and\nactive your sperm may be, so sooner may be better\nthan later—but this may be hard to think about\nif kidney failure is recent and the future seems to\nbe in question. Only you and your partner can\ndecide what’s right for you."
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This question is really too general to answer completely.  \nBecause there are many types of kidney diseases, there are many kinds of symptoms that people can experience.  You should go to www.kidney.org (the national kidney foundation website) and take a look at the patient information.\n\nTo address a previous comment, urine output is often confused with kidney function.  The amount of urine made does not tell you about your level of kidney function or whether your kidneys are sick.  Please remember that depending on the cause of kidney disease/failure (chronic or acute), a person could experience low, normal or high amounts of urine output.  The way kidney function is tested is by using laboratory values--the most common value used is called the serum (blood) creatinine level.\n\nThe laundry lists of signs and symptoms that are usually given for kidney failure are LATE symptoms of kidney failure. These generally occur when a person is at a point where their kidneys have failed completely and they require dialysis treatments. Most people with early/moderate kidney failure have NO symptoms at all.  \n\nSo, the most common symptoms of kidney disease are no symptoms at all.  Kidney disease is usually a SILENT disease that is more often then not picked up by checking routine laboratory tests. It is not ususally picked up by symptoms.   Catching kidney disease early is the best way to prevent further kidney damage.   \n\nThe best advice is to check with your doctor and make sure they have checked your level of kidney function. It is important to note that certain diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease are major causes of kidney disease.  If you have these and other predisposing diseases, you need to make sure your doctor checks for kidney problems on a regular basis.  If there is a kidney problem, you may need to be referred to a specialist (nephrologist).
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you need to see the doctor.\nMeanwhile, raise your feet as much as you can when sitting, and in bed put a pillow underneath them. Move your feet as often as possible in little circles from the ankles. All these things help the drainage. \nYour feet are swelling due to the blood pressure and your circulation being ineffiecient, it isn't too serious but your doctor may give you a diuretic which will make you pee more, as your blood pressure could be affecting your kidneys.\nIf you are overweight you need to think about diet and exercise as they can help the oedema (fluid),  reduce salt and fat in your food. Drink low sodium water.\nGood luck, hope this helps.
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I have read articles about people who have healed, or greatly improved their kidneys with diet extremely low in proteins and salt, and less than 9% calories from fat.\nIt is not certain that you will be able to stop dialysis completely, but with the right diet you may be able to decrease the need for dialysis very significantly.\nIt is also possible that with right diet your kidneys will regain enough of their function that you will be able to stop dialysis altogether. There each case is different, you need to study the information from the few alternative doctors.\nI will give you enough places to start your research. If you are sincere in your search you will find the answer. Please let me know what you found.\n\nThis is not your main stream information, so you will need to do some research. It may take you several days to get all the facts. But your life is worth that.\nEmail Dr. McDougal at drmcdougall@drmcdougall.com\nSearch \nhttp://www.drmcdougall.com/\nhttp://www.pcrm.org\nhttp://www.vegsource.com/\nLocate the names and links of the doctors associated with the above website.
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Call your nephrologist (kidney doctor)
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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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call a ronald mcdonald  house and find out - I once called a dialysis center because i had always heard to colect them for dialysis patients - the center didn't know anything unless people were selling them for aluminum
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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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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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Gradual loss of your kidneys' ability to filter out the poisons that build up in your bloodstream, such as ammonia and other nitrous compounds.  ("Chronic" means long-term, gradual, as opposed to "acute" which is a sudden onset.)  \n\nThere are many ways that the kidneys can be damaged and/or lose their function, but the two most common causes are diabetes (your body doesn't produce enough insulin, which allows the cells in your body to intake sugar for energy) and hypertension (high blood pressure, which damages the vessels in your kidneys).  Also, some medications, such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, can damage the kidneys in some patients, so doctors carefully monitor your renal function when you are on these drugs.\n\nIf the kidneys fail entirely, then the toxins in your blood have to be removed artifically by dialysis, using a "kidney machine" to clean up your blood.