What is the best way of finding out as to how well ur kidney is functiioning?
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blood tests. Creatinine and BUN (blood urea nitrogen). These are byproducts of kidney waste. If they are too high your kidney is not excreting them well enough, I'm a nurse
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Have 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           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        Some notes on this recipe: this herbal tea, as well as the parsley, can easily spoil. Heat it to boiling every fourth day if it is being stored in the refrigerator; this resterilizes it. If you sterilize it in the morning you may take it to work without refrigerating it (use a glass container).\n\n        There are pro
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Glomerular filtration rate is the rate at which the glomerulus (a microscopic part of your kidney) is able to filter your blood.  It is generally calculated using the Cockroft-Gault formula based on your creatinine level (a product of muscle breakdown that is part of routine blood work) and your age and weight.
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Length: 11cm\nBreadth: 6cm\nThickness: 3cm\nAnd it weights about 135gms in females.\n\nPlease note that these measurements differ in about 0.05cms. \nTo get an accurate measurement of your kidneys, get an ultrasound done. It is non-invasive and can be done in 3 mins (waiting-time in the doctor's room not included)
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Hi, I've learned a lot from the following website. Associated with it, there is a mailing list, where you can ask all kinds of questions about kidneys!! I hope you come visit us soon!
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It hurts like hell!!  In my case it desolved before I got the pleasure and joy of actually peeing it out but that little stone ripping it's way through your kidney is one heckof a trip through pain.  Ask your doctor for some hefty pain killers before it starts too badly.
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somethng to do with the tubules of your kidneys, but not sure what else
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i dunno but i 2 want to know abt body buiding
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http://www.kidney-failure-symptoms.com/\n\n\nSometimes the underlying problems are related to complications of a long-term disease such as diabetes.  Read on.
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Tests for kidney function, water retention, circulation problems, are some of the things which come to mind. Check with a physician and cut back on salty foods.
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Protien in your urine or traces of the element in your urine can be a sign of some sort of kidney damage / distress. Your kidneys are filters and they are not filtering the protien out if it is being passed in your urine. Your doctor will likely do more testing to evaluate your kidney function and prescribe treatments as needed. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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From MayoClinic.com:\n\n"Elevated blood levels of urea and creatinine are likely evidence of decreased kidney function. Urea and creatinine are waste products that your kidneys normally filter from your blood. If your kidneys aren't working properly, these substances build up in your body. Blood tests that evaluate kidney function are used to measure urea and creatinine."
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first of all start by maybe checking with your doctor for any type of kidney problems because i have heard of that too. it could also be a chiropractic problem. sometimes it could be something as simple as buying a new bed.
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Pretty much the same as of a person with both kidneys.  About one in 750 people is born with one kidney only. \nYour body needs only one kidney to function, the second one is not necessary for survival. \nYou will want to protect the kidney you have, so decrease your risk for injury by not playing certain heavy contact sports (boxing, field hockey, football, ice hockey, Lacrosse, martial arts, rodeo, soccer and wrestling). \nYou want to be careful about a few things: \nYou have a slightly higer risk to develop high blood pressure, so that needs to be checked. \nUrinalysis (urine test) also should be done yearly, and kidney function should be checked every few years. \n\nJust to put things into perspective: American life insurance companies don't alter life insurance premiums for donors who've given one kidney. And secondly, they calculate the risks of dying as a result of having one kidney, as about the equivalent of driving 8000 miles a year on American roads.\nI hope this helps ab it.
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How do I supposed to know?
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dont drink too much as you said the kidneys are already deteriorating as this can put to much strain on them,plain water would be best ,avoid all drugs,unless prescribed by doctor,NO alcohol salt free diet.DO NOT DRINK AS MUCH WATER AS POSSIBLE you should not drink more than 2litres a day unless you have been told
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8-10 cups per day. However, if you are overweight, exercising, in a hot climate, etc, that number goes up.\n\nA better way to tell if you are properly hydrated is to look at the color of your urine. It should be almost clear. If it is dark yellow, drink more water.