10 Tips to Keep Your Kidneys Healthy

 

Tips to Keep Your Kidneys Healthy 

 Now there are several ways to reduce the risk of developing kidney disease so following are the tips to look after the health of your kidneys the

1.Drink Plenty of Water

First and the most important tip would be to drink plenty of water one should drink at least 10 to 12 glasses of water every day which means around two and a half to three liters of fluid in 24 hours especially warm water because it is more helpful for the kidneys.The water helps to flush out various toxins salt and other uremic products from the body and maintains the homeostasis and correct balance of the body.

2.Salt Restricted Diet

The next tip would be to have a salt restricted diet or keep a low sodium diet. All around one should avoid intake of packaged or restaurant products do not add any extra salt to your diet try to keep your salt intake in 24 hours to less than 5 grams in a day taking excessive salt adds to the risk of development of hypertension hypertension related kidney disorders and also increases the risk of progression of various kidney diseases.

3.Maintain an Appropriate Body Weight

The third tip would be to maintain an appropriate body weight target a bmi of less than 24 especially in the case of indians if you have an excessive body weight or are obese the load that has to be filtered by the kidney increases and can cause kidney damage in the future try to get your blood cholesterol levels checked and try to keep them under check because if the cholesterol deposition happens in renal arteries it will further damage the kidneys and leads to progression of kidney disease.

4.Monitor Your Sugar Levels

The next tip would be to monitor your sugar levels and try to keep them under optimum levels. By optimum levels i mean target an hp a1c of less than six a fasting blood sugar level of less than 100 and a postprandial or two hours post meal blood sugar levels of less than 200 damage is especially common in diabetics .It starts with proteinuria or protein leakage which in turn gets converted to rise in the serum creatinine levels and rapidly increases the progression of diabetic related kidney disorders. So my advice is avoid any sweet products avoid addition of any sugar to your products and if you are a diabetic meet a physician take your drugs the oral hypoglycemic agents which he has prescribed or insulin and check them regularly and keep and maintain it to the target levels as discussed before.

5. Monitor Your Blood Pressures

The next tip would be to monitor your blood pressures and keep them under control now hypertension is both the victim and villain in kidney disorders. So if you have high blood pressures it can cause kidney diseases can lead to its rapid progression the truth is if we think about it. The other way around that you have chronic kidney disease then it can also lead to hypertension so restrict salt in your diet keep a healthy lifestyle balance your lifestyle in a way that your blood pressure is under control. If you are a hypertensive visit your physician take the tablets that he has prescribed and regularly monitor your blood pressures the target blood pressures would be less than 120 by 80.

6. Get Your Kidney Function

Coming to the next step get your kidney function tests urine analysis and imaging investigations of the kidney. which includes an ultrasound kub done regularly if you are a high risk patient. Which include diabetics hypertensives patients of coronary artery disease metabolic bone disease obesity then one should get themselves tested even more often if you have a family history of these diseases again you are at high risk  get these tests done if there is

any abnormality meet a nephrologist and prevent the further progression of Kidney disorders.

7.Quit Smoking

The next tip would be to quit smoking another one of the most preventable modifiable risk factor would be smoking. Everyone knows smoking increases the propensity of coronary artery disease strokes hypertension worsens diabetes but few people know that even smoking one cigarette per day actually leads to progression of kidney disorders. So if you are a smoker and you have a kidney disease it will manifold increase the risk of progression so my advice is strictly avoid smoking it is a quint essential requirement for those people who have kidney diseases maintain an active and balanced lifestyle.

8.Exercise

I would suggest that do a moderate exercise of around 45 minutes

per day 5 out of 7 days in a week by moderate exercise i mean jogging cycling, swimming various kind of racket games do not follow any sedentary lifestyle if you have a sedentary lifestyle try to move around in your office take a stroll after having your lunch because all these increases the chances of obesity and metabolic syndrome which further predisposes to kidney disorders.

9.Unnecessary Use of Any Painkillers

 One of the most important tips that i want to give you is avoid the unnecessary use of any painkillers or any alternative medications.We know that most of the people in case of even a small headache go to a round the off the corner shops take various painkillers like gruffin combi flam indomethacin all these painkillers are not good for the kidney. wavron is used a lot by patients nowadays these painkillers have been implicated in the progression of chronic kidney disease especially chronic tubular interstitial disorders. So my advice to you is please avoid them also if you've taken these painkillers get your kidney function tests and urine analysis done. Relatively kidney safe painkillers would be paracetamol tramadol or ultraset last but not the least balance your lifestyle.

10.Restful Night's Sleep

Take a restful night's sleep of around 8 hours this is extremely

important to keep you healthy. Thank you