Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD and chronic renal disease) means that there’s damage to your kidneys and they aren’t working as well as they should. Your kidneys are like a filter in your body — filtering out wastes, toxins and extra water from your blood. They also help with other functions like bone and red blood cell health. When your kidneys begin to lose their function, they can’t filter waste, which means the waste builds up in your blood.
Kidney disease is called “chronic” because kidney function slowly decreases over time. CKD can lead to kidney failure, which is also called end-stage kidney disease. Not everyone with CKD will develop kidney failure, but the disease will often worsen without treatment. There’s no cure for chronic kidney disease. But there are steps you can take to slow kidney damage. Treatments like dialysis and transplantation are options for kidney failure (end-stage kidney disease).
Symptoms of Chronic Kidney Disease may include:
A need to pee more often.
Tiredness, weakness, low energy level.
Fever
Loss of appetite.
Swelling of your hands, feet and ankles.
Shortness of breath.
Foamy or bubbly pee.
Kidney diseases happen when your kidneys are damaged and can’t filter your blood. With chronic kidney disease, the damage tends to happen over the course of several years.
Yes, kidney disease can run in biological families. Risk factors for CKD, like diabetes, also tend to run in families.
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