Tips from gaining health

Less drinking causes kidney pain - Many people said: dont forget for drink enough, Otherwise you will hit by kidney pain/diseases. actually this statement not right.

Dehydration that cause by less drinking will effect to our health, this right. But, this not effected to people with healthy kidney. Like this said by dr.Parlindungan Siregar, Sp.PD, KGH. from Division of Renal Hypertension FKUI/RSCM, in healthy people and normal kidney function, dehydration has no effect on the kidneys.

"If dehydration or mild dehydration three percent, which may be affected only cognitive function alone, as so difficult to concentrate. But in people who already have kidney disorders, mild dehydration will cause a severe kidney disorder,"

said dr.parlindungan siregar.

Meanwhile, in severe dehydration or less drinking till 10%, the effect at body is reduce the blood pressure.

"Patients who are vomiting and dehydration may also experience acute renal impairment if not immediately resolved,"

he said.

Then This Doctor add that consume water at healthy people cant less and cant over, this is depend to our activity. But average we need 2 letter water for a day. This different to people have attack by kidney disorder, "In acute kidney disorders, fluid volume are allowed as much as the volume of urine a day plus 500 mL, so about a liter of water a day," he said.

Concentrated Urine color, Beware of Kidney Stones | Check the color of urine is small habits that important for kidney health. If we take in enough fluids, urine color will be yellow nodes. Concentrated urine color that can trigger the formation of crystals so that the higher risk of kidney stones.

"Water acts as a medium of elimination of metabolic waste, while the kidneys are functioning organ which filter blood and remove metabolic waste it. If the shortage of water, the kidneys work to more severe," said Dr. Parlindungan Siregar, Sp PD-KGH, of the Kidney and Hypertension in the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine RSCM.
If we are getting enough water, salt, calcium, uric acid, cystine, and other substances in the urine can crystallize and form mineral deposits, even to the size of pebbles. This will cause kidney stones is severe pain when a stone moves into the bladder.

In addition to not drinking, high-protein diet can also trigger the formation of kidney stones. "The higher the animal protein, calcium and the production of uric acid in the urine will increase so that it can form kidney stones," he said.

According to Parlin, in a healthy person, urine spending reached two liters daily. Therefore, we need consume two untiul three liters of water in 24 hours. Even so, it should be noted also the composition of the water consumed.

"Drink soda, apple juice, drinks that contain magnesium, as well as alcohol, should be restricted to maintain kidney health," he said. In addition, excess vitamin D also increases the risk of kidney stones.

In some people, kidney stones are also triggered by a metabolic disorder. "This can lead the continued high levels of uric acid so that uric acid levels in the urine can come up and form uric acid stones," he said. To overcome this, the doctor will give medicine to normalize uric acid levels.

Patients with kidney failure do need a new kidney to survive. But no one can be arbitrarily kidney donor, although the family and even blood relatives. There are several requirements to be a kidney donor.

There are two types of donors to undergo a transplant or a kidney transplant, which is living donor and cadaveric donors (corpse).

Living donors, namely human kidneys taken from living a healthy and do meet the selection criteria for transplantation. While on the cadaver donor, kidney taken from a person who died or were declared brain dead (as in the case of traffic accidents or injuries due to trauma).

"Transplants can be done by using a kidney from a live person or a corpse. But we in Indonesia only do transplants from living donors, as donors of the bodies has been no strong legal protection, so it can not be done," explains Prof. Dr. Dr. Endang Susalit, SpPD-KGH, in a media seminar RSCM Capable of Conducting technique Kidney Transplant International Standard on RSCM Kencana Building, Jakarta.

For living donors, there are several requirements that are established, among other things:

1. Age over 18 years
2. Mentally and physically healthy
3. Tried to be the same blood group
4. Normal blood pressure
5. no diabetes
6. no cancer
7. Do not have vascular disease
8. Not too fat
9. No abnormalities of kidney stones

"For cadaveric donors, the condition must be brain stem dead. By law the condition it was declared dead, although his heart was still beating, for example in the case of people experiencing head trauma. Of the patients could also crash, but the heart must beat. If there is no rate should resuscitated soon (cardiac shock), the longest 10 minutes. But if to 1 or 2 hours, so be it can not be a donor, "Prof jela Endang.