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 Chronic Kidney Disease Kidneys are responsible for three things, they remove waste from your body, they produce red blood cells and control blood pressure. When your kidney is not working, all these things might go wrong. There are one in ten people who have Chronic Kidney Disease. 1)The common and scientific name of the disease.The common and scientific name is Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) / Chronic Renal Disease(CRD). Rena l:Kidney

What causes it? How is it transmitted?

 Chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurs when one suffers from gradual and permanent loss of kidney function over time. Kidneys are no longer able to clean toxins and waste product from the blood.  Although chronic kidney disease sometimes results from primary diseases of the kidneys themselves, the two major causes are diabetes and high blood pressure.
 *  Diabetes [[image:urinary_structures.jpg width="233" height="267"]] [[image:images.jpeg width="289" height="173"]]
 *  High blood pressure
 *  inflammation
 *  hereditary
 *  Over-the-counter medicines
 *  Clogging and hardening of the arteries
 *  Obstruction of the flow of urine by stones
 *  Cancers

It can not be transmitted by anyways and it is only the permanent loss of kidney function of the patient.

What are the symptoms? How long do they last? Is it deadly?


 * Changes in Urination
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Swelling
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Fatigue
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Skin Rash
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Metallic taste in mouth
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Vomiting
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Shortness of breath
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Feeling cold
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Dizziness
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;">Trouble concentrating
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Leg pain



<span style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;">Can it be cured? If so, how? If not, is there any way that we can at least treat it? <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Chronic Kidney disease can not be cured but can be controlled. <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">These are some things that you can do:
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Lower your high blood pressure. Reducing the blood pressure slows the rate of the GFR decline
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Take medication or follow a prescribed diet to control anemia
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Control glucose and blood lipids
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Stop smoking
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Increase physical activity
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Control body weight. If you are overweight, it's important to reduce your weight.
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Eat a healthy and balanced diet

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">If you are at the end-stage of Chronic Kidney Disease, a person’s kidneys stop working completely will need to undergo dialysis or kidney transplantation.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Sources:

<span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1.National Kidney And Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse [] <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2. Original source: From ISN / IFKF World Kidney Day Website <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">3. AAFP: American Family Physician / [|__www.aafp.org__] <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">3. Family Doctor.org <span style="color: #000099; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin: 0px;">4. emedicinehealth.com / [|__www.emedicinehealth.com/chronic_kidney_disease/article_em.htm__]