Thursday, July 26, 2012

Make this the Kidney Passion

Jengkol like to eat can make kidney problems. Consumption of slimming drugs, analgesics, steroids, or antibiotics without medical supervision also gives the same effect. In fact, the use of hair dye or bleach can also affect your kidneys.

There are a number of erroneous behavior or habits which impact on kidney health. Many things are acted, without realizing it, has made a miserable kidneys. How it can damage the kidneys?

Because jengkol

Do not underestimate the food that is often used as a salad, stew, or rendang it. According to Prof. MA Roesli Rully, Sp.PD-KGH, there are people who need dialysis because of eating jengkol.

"Jengkol contain crystals or jengkolic acid. Jengkol acid crystals and this is so then clog the urinary tract," says consultant renal hypertension than clinic specialist in internal medicine and neurological Shield Husada, Bandung.

Ureter is closed to garbage or toxins are not removed. As a result of urinary tract infections can occur.

If untreated, the condition will spread to the kidneys. Therefore, as told by Prof. Rully, there are only a few times taking jengkol, even kidney failure.

"Still remains acute kidney failure. Problem in acute renal failure is required dialysis, although not constantly. If acute renal failure has been handled, do not need dialysis anymore," said the professor of medicine at the University of Padjadjaran, Bandung.

Wary of slimming drugs

Action taking slimming drugs for weight loss also should be aware. According to Prof. Dr. Walujo Soerjodibroto, Ph.D, the consumption of slimming drugs are not really contributing to the incidence of renal failure. Because many drugs or slimming wrong ways to make the patients experienced a reduction in the amount of fluid in the body.

In addition, there is often raise their own patient dose, assuming that the higher the dose, the faster will be slim. Weight loss may be decreased due to dehydration due to diarrhea or excessive urination, but kidney function becomes impaired.

"Slimming drugs are diuretics contributed to kidney damage. Diuretics continue to be drained of body fluids. If to dehydration, it can hurt the kidneys," said Prof. Rully.

Amphetamine drug caution

There are also drugs such as amphetamines which could adversely affect the kidneys. Drugs of this type make it difficult to sleep. As a result, the burning of energy continues. Amphetamines can constrict blood vessels.

"The blood that moves to the kidneys is reduced. In the end ginjai shortages of food intake," said Prof. Rully.

Therefore, this type of drug use is strictly prohibited.

Easy to take medication

Not only for slimming drugs or amphetamine alone that can damage kidney function. The use of pain medication, antibiotics, or steroids continuously in excess amount in a few months can cause kidney disease.

Hobbies herbal indiscriminate

So also with drugs or herbal supplements, homemade and imported, it has the risk of kidney damage. "We do not know what the content or its content," said Prof. Rully.

Should we reject supplements and herbal medicines are potent and cespleng because it means not purely herbal, but the chemical content of the drug dose is not controlled. If you must drink, choose a drug or herbal supplement that has received clearance from the FDA and BPOM.

Beware of bleach and hair dye

The use of skin bleaching and hair color were also able to cause negative effects on the kidneys. Least Prof. Rully young people see the patients suffered acute kidney failure cases caused by hobby dyed her hair. He had to do dialysis.

Diarrhea should not continue

Incidence of diarrhea to cause dehydration also can encourage kidney disorders. Diarrhea or vomiting can indeed make a person is dehydrated. Would be fatal, especially if fluid loss is not immediately replaced. Therefore, when someone has diarrhea or vomiting, drink plenty of fluids are required.

Avoid obesity

Research at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that there is a strong association between obesity with the incidence of end stage renal disease or kidney failure. Obesity increases the risk of kidney failure as much as seven times than those with normal weight.

According to the researchers, obesity should be considered as risk factors for this condition, and that kidney failure is another consequence of obesity.

"There are many people with kidney failure, but has not been appreciated that kidney failure can be a consequence of obesity," said Chi yuan Hsu, MD, UCSF assistant professor of s.

A study published in Annals of Internal Medicine is based on data from 320 thousand members of the Northern California Kaiser measured the height and weight during a routine examination between 1964-1985. Total of 1471 cases of end stage renal disease occurred among study participants, for an average follow-up period of about 26 years.

They found that body mass index (BMI) is higher at higher risk of also experiencing kidney failure. Of the respondents, 58 percent had normal weight and 39 percent have a BMI of 25 or more.

The risk of kidney failure among participants with overweight than 1.87 times the normal weight. The more obese, with BMI of 40 or more, seven times the risk of kidney failure.

However, better and more healthy if slimmer than fat, right?