Tuesday, 15 October 2013

It maintain red cell level and calcium metabolism. A person with renal failure will know the important of kidney as waste accumulate causing harm to the body, blood pressure rises,red cell level falls causing aneamia bone is affected and fluid is retained causing swelling to mention a few consequences. What can damage its function? Drug like paracetamol,NSAIDs e.g ibuprofen,antibiotics e.g Gentamycin,antifugal e.g Amphoterin,radiocontrasr agents etc. Severe Dehydration. Blood loss. Diabetes mellitus. Hypertention. Cancer. Others are damage to organs such as heart failure,liver diseases etc. Common cause of long term problem is chronic glomerulonephritis,diabetes mellitus,hypertension,chronic and indiscriminate use of analgesics,herbal concotion,drinking green 'holy' water. The message is that dont play with your kiadney,dont jole with it,dont kid with it,You need them,they need you.

The outside section is called the Cortex while in interior is the medulla.the nephron is a made up of a cuplike structure at the top called to bowman's capsule it receives blood from the renal artery which supply the kidney with blood and filter the blood,body waste from the blood pass through the capsule down to structure called proximal convoluted tubule where water salts are reabsorb,down to loop of henle and to distal convoluted tubule.The ramaining waste is urine which pass out of the Henle's loop into ureter then to the bladder which stores urine and to urethra and is pass out of the body. The major function of the kidney is to excrete waste,they filter up to 1L of blood per day that's 36 times of the total volume of blood generate up to 3L of urine per day,what happens to the rest? Well that's where fitnesses of the kidney comes in, selectively reabsorbing useful materials even while getting rid of waste. Blood pressure control is intimately linked to the renal function.