Kidney Disease - What Is The Role Of Diabetes In It?

The kidneys play a crucial role in maintaining overall health. The kidneys not only clean the blood by getting rid of waste by producing urine but also keeps your blood pressure normal. They support healthy bones and tissues by producing the active form of Vitamin D, regulate your body's salt, potassium and acid content.

Three types of treatment can be used to treat kidney failure, which are kidney transplantation, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In kidney transplant, a healthy kidney from a different person is inserted into your body through surgery. Haemodialysis is the removal of wastes and other toxic fluids from your blood. In peritoneal dialysis, your blood is cleansed from within with the lining of your abdomen acting as the natural filter.

In the end stage of renal failure or kidney failure, the kidneys are no longer capable of supporting you and are in need of dialysis or transplantation. This happens when only 10%-15% of the kidneys are functional.

Diabetes injures the small blood vessels in your body and when the blood vessels of the kidneys are damaged, they cannot clean the blood properly. This results in our body retaining more water and salt than it should be leading to weight gain and swelling of the ankle. Besides all waste materials build up in your blood.