Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Nephropathy: renal failure

Keep our kidneys clean the blood, they filter waste products, salts and toxins from the unpleasant elements infiltrate into the urine. Also, excess sugar molecules seventh out our twin organ. But in people with diabetes, the kidneys are of the excess of sugar eventually overwhelmed, they fail.

Because the fine sugar molecules stick to the micro-structures of the kidney: the renal and Nierenkapillaren sweeten over time, literally. The tissue swells and gets meshed filter leaks. Therefore, the kidney excretes at some point also substances that our body actually needs more, for example, important proteins. The kidney is damaged, the blood pressure rises in the veins. A vicious circle begins: the higher the blood pressure, the faster the kidney dies. More and more desolate the small glomeruli, the blood is rarely cleaned. The kidneys eventually fail completely and fall. Then the only solution is dialysis, a machine that washes the blood so the body is not poisoned itself.

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