Save Yourself From Diabetic Kidney Disease!

Diabetes is a condition which you need to keep under control. It has the potential to damage more or less every part of your body and only keeping to the proper regiment and taking whatever medications the doctors have prescribed to you will keep it at bay. Diabetes is chronic and can quite easily kill you if you don’t manage at properly.

One of the ways that diabetes kills a patient is through damage to some of the major organs. It can damage the heart and the liver but the most common form of organ damage caused by diabetes is done to the kidneys. 30% of type one diabetics and 40% of type two diabetics are said to eventually experience kidney failure. There are lots of warning signs of this and your doctors should be able to identify whether you’re at a higher risk of contracting it or not.

However if this concerns you as much as it should you’re going to want to take steps to prevent this from ever occurring in the first place! Towards that end we’ve made a list of steps you can take to lessen your chances of diabetic kidney disease:

• Keep your blood-sugar under control as working hard to filter it from your blood is one of the main causes of damage to the kidneys in the first place!
• Maintain a healthy blood pressure (below 130/80)
• Get yourself tested once a year. Ask for a urinary albumin test and a blood test looking at your creatinine levels.
• Avoid overuse of painkillers as these can damage kidneys
• Avoid excessive consumption of protein. So try and eat less meat and dairy if you can.
• If you have any bladder or kidney issues then do not hesitate to see a doctor. All conditions are much easier to treat if they’re caught earlier!