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Diabetes Doesn’t Have to Lead to Chronic Kidney Disease
Diabetes causes damage to the kidneys by causing harm to the small blood vessels that make the kidneys filters. If the filters get really damaged then chronic kidney disease develops. This is an incurable disease but it can be controlled. An early treatment of diabetes helps by reducing the damage the kidneys receive so that when dialysis is needed the kidneys won’t fail.
If identified at the right moment the physician will be able to give you a treatment that will stop the disease to damage further the body. Insulin dependent diabetes (Type 1) can be diagnosed very easy and early because of the very rapid symptoms, so that the kidneys won’t get damaged. If one has type 1 diabetes he`ll surely know it, but if he has type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes he may not find out about it for years because the first symptoms appear after at least 3 years. This means that the small blood vessels that make up the kidneys filters are already damaged by the high sugar level in the blood. This is when one of the first kidney disease symptom appear. It is called microalbuminuria and it is characterized by a really high volume of protein in the urine. That protein should have remained in the blood but because the damage sustained by the kidneys it reaches the urine.
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Polycystic Kidney Disease
“Polycystic kidney disease” or “PKD” is a disease that is inherited and causes the development of multiple non-cancerous cysts that can occur throughout the body but primarily develop in the kidneys. These cysts can cause the kidneys to become extremely enlarged and cause permanent scarring of the normal tissues of the kidneys to occur resulting in the impairment of kidney functioning.
This disease varies greatly with its severity as some individuals can have this disease for many years and not even be aware of it due to a lack of symptoms, while others can experience symptoms that are severe including a significant loss in kidney functioning as well as total kidney failure.
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