Complementary Medicine for Kidney Failure

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With the World Kidney Day just behind us, it’s time to protect the kidneys by keeping blood pressure and sugar levels under check.

 

Kidneys are wonderful organs in the sense that they are the body’s compact tissues that help rid of the effluents of metabolism so that the harmony of functions of all other organs is maintained sans toxic wastes. The seat of action is the neph ron, a million of which are found in the kidney; nephrons separate water and toxins in the tubules from the blood; only those constituents necessary for metabolism are retained. Proteins and red blood cells are too big to pass through the holes of the filter and remain in the blood. The tubules connect into the urethra and thereby the bladder where the water with toxins is retained and later released.


These remarkable organs can be under stress due to various diseases. And the functional units cease to work to their potential and reach a state of ESRD or End Stage Renal Disease. The usual suspects of most degenerative changes in the human metabolism remain to be high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, which are the most likely causes of kidney failure too.


The proteins ingested by the body are digested and the waste products filtered out; this system gets damaged due to diabetes. High levels of blood sugar insist the kidney to filter more blood and the hard work makes the organs leak over a period of time and there is an appearance of protein in the urine called as microalbuminuria. If this condition is not arrested, it could lead to major loss of protein called proteinuria. This is also called as Diabetic Nephropathy.


A family history of high blood pressure and the person suffering from this condition appear to increase the chances of developing kidney disease. If one is already suffering a kidney disease, hypertension accelerates it. Kidney disease also causes a mechanism wherein the person’s blood pressure increases. It is a vicious circle.


The need of the hour is to keep blood sugar levels and blood pressure under normal limits.


Once the sugar and blood pressure levels are regulated, in 40 per cent of the patients, there is no further progress of the disease. To keep blood pressure under control one has to lose weight, eat less salt, avoid alcohol and tobacco and incorporate moderate exercise.


Apart from these, a nephrologist would advise ACE inhibitors like captopril and enalapril while Aurum met, Plumb met and Arjuna are the Homoeopathic medicines known to help in tandem.


Blood sugar levels too need to be kept under check with oral anti-diabetic medicines as advised or insulin. To keep such side effects of diabetes at bay, Syzygium and Gymnema are known to help.


Once there is an irreversible stage of kidney disease, to keep the function of the kidney outside the human body, dialysis is essential and in some cases, renal transplantation is done. With help of complementary medicine, during dialysis homoeopathic medicines like Eel serum, Solidago and Kali chlor are known to help.

 

Protect your kidneys. Follow a few simple steps with your doctor’s help. Get your blood pressure and diabetes well under control. Avoid excessive use of over-the-counter medications. Avoid excessive use of painkillers and abuse of antibiotics. Kidneys have enormous reserve. We have just crossed the World Kidney Day (March 13) and should resolve to preserve and protect the kidneys.

 

DR. VENUGOPAL GOURI
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