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Take Care Your Kidneys
Filed under DiseaseFeb 8
Kidney is one of the vital organs for humans. So far, it was thought inappropriate that the kidneys produce urine only. Though there are many functions that play a pair of organs shaped like kidney beans and the amount of approximately this fist. Among others regulate acid base balance and body fluids, and regulate blood pressure and metabolism (formation) of bone. In addition, the kidneys also produce hormones eritroprotein (EPO) which sends signals to the bone marrow to make blood cells red.If disturbed renal function, or even a failure, not only the quality of life declining, lifetime treatment cost of course is not small. In these conditions the kidney function decreased to less than 15 percent of waste that no longer useful to the body can not be removed and eventually poison the body. Kidney increasingly smaller (shrink) and there is no drug that can restore it as before.
To replace him, the patient should perform renal replacement therapy through a kidney transplant or dialysis. Kidney transplants performed by a kidney transplant healthy people (donors) to the body of the patient (recipient), so patients can live normally without the need for dialysis. The best donors are family members of the first line, ie father, mother, or siblings.
Meanwhile, hemodialysis (HD) or known as dialysis performed using a machine . By means of pump (pump), blood flows out of the body to dialiser (artificial kidney) to be cleaned. Cleaning fluid (dialysate) flows into the artificial kidney (dialiser) which serves to clean toxins and fluid from the body through the process of diffusion and ultrafiltration. Once cleaned, the blood flow back into the body. HD should be done in the hospital, with a frequency of 2-3 times a week and the process takes 4-5 hours.
In addition to these two therapies, the patient can also choose dialysis through the membrane of the abdominal cavity is continuously performed or CAPD (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis). In this case that serves as a filter membrane or membrane is the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) that is known as CAPD dialysis through the abdomen.
The process begins by entering the dialysis fluid into the abdominal cavity through a catheter tube that has been planted in the abdominal cavity. These techniques take advantage of the abdominal cavity lining to filter and clean the blood. When the dialysis fluid in the abdominal cavity, toxic substances in the blood will be cleaned and excess water will be withdrawn.
This process is done four times a day and is practical because it can be done alone at home by patients after the first training. The time needed for each change of the liquid is 30 minutes.
