Is it not sad to think that Kidney Disease affects about 20 million people in the United States? Yes in the United States alone. To think of the horrors around the world. Where there is not technology to help the sick. 95,000 deaths occur in one year, only in U.S. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) traumatizes its victims physically until their bodies deteriorate. CKD can result to kidney failure which results in a transplant, or death. CKD patients can also have the risk of having heart disease. Tis sad to think that not only is one organ (or two if both kidneys) is failing but your heart may deteriorate too?
I shake my head and wonder why children, young adults, adults, and seniors must suffer through this horror.
Now I do not have the time at this moment to look up all the treatments and such but I will tell you what I know so far about CKD.
Chronic kidney disease includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by doing the jobs listed. If kidney disease gets worse, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. You may develop complications like high blood pressure, anemia (low blood count), weak bones, poor nutritional health and nerve damage. Also, kidney disease increases your risk of having heart and blood vessel disease. These problems may happen slowly over a long period of time. Chronic kidney disease may be caused by diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders. Early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney disease from getting worse. When kidney disease progresses, it may eventually lead to kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life.
Read enough yet? Are you bored? Interested? Fascinated? Or completely disgusted? Hmmm...tis life
CKD patients must undergo either antibiotics, kidney dialysis, or kidney transplant.
Antibiotics will only work for a little while, and soon the patient will have to go for dialysis.
As far as I know about Dialysis, the patient must sit in the room from 3-6 hours. Some may go in once a week and others have the burden of going in for dialysis 4-5 times a week. They sit in a chair with a machine hooked up to their body. The machine drains their blood and cleans it for them such as what a kidney does. Some victims are even too weak to go to the hospital for this and therefore have to have in home dialysis. 24/7 Nurses are called to help the family out.
Kidney transplant...
Now I am sure you know what that means eh?
Not many people are lucky to have this transplant...
There is size and blood type to consider...
There is also the ever 'will my body reject this kidney' worry...
Hmm what do you think of this disease now?
Unfortunately I have heard stories about these tragedies...
It breaks my heart to just hear if a young boy/girl has been diagnosed with this terminal illness...
If you know more about CKD, do tell. I like to learn about these things. Why? I do not even know myself.
Just pray or think about what these people go through. Every thought and prayer (whether you are religious or not) is a help to these people.
I leave you with this....
~MisakiRose~
MisakiRose Community Member 
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