Like a person climbing a ladder, you will most likely move up the Kidney disease stages if you do not take control of your life now. Better assess and evaluate the current status of your health:
Have you been diagnosed to have a kidney related ailment; like having kidney stones, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Polycystic kidney disease, High Blood Pressure from renal problems or Diabetic Renal Disease? Does a paper strip test reveal positive protein traces in your urine? Or do you suffer from potassium deficiency?
Or, have you been consistently taking chemicals or medications like Lithium or painkillers?
Or, does your genetic make-up suggest a predisposition to kidney diseases, any family member or relative that has been diagnosed, receiving treatment or died of a kidney disease?
Or, are you experiencing symptoms like fatigue, difficulty in breathing upon exertion, muscle cramps, loss of appetite, itching, easy bruising, nausea and vomiting?
If so, the good news is that you can stop the further progress of the disease. You need not fear that you will suffer through all the kidney disease stages. All you have to do is to go on a special diet. By choosing to eat healthy, you can stop the progress of your illness towards kidney failure. Eating healthy does not mean just eating the food prescribed in quantities shown in the nutrition or food pyramid. It also requires choosing to eat those that are compatible with the individual needs of one’s body. So, if you are diagnosed to have potassium deficiency you must eat foods rich in potassium like bananas. But how many and how often are you to eat bananas? To answer this you would need to talk to a professional nutritionist or to a doctor. But are you going to consult them every time you eat? Call them or invite them over? It is impractical to do so. The best is to obtain a feeding guide that one would just have to follow. A feeding guide prepared by a person that has ample knowledge on caring for persons in the same situation as you. A feeding guide that has been proven to work at helping a persons’ illness stop from progressing through the kidney disease stages. Once you have chosen to follow this special diet guide, you should put your heart into it. Be committed to follow it.
A good tip to stay committed is to bear in mind the consequences of leaving the diet program. If you do so and your illness progresses to the end stage there is no turning back. The only solution is continued dialysis or a kidney transplant. Both instances are a death sentence. A kidney transplant does extend ones’ life until the body eventually rejects the new kidney or until it also becomes afflicted due to the continued abuse of eating the wrong kinds of food. Dialysis extends ones’ life until the next dialysis session or until infection sets in at the open incision for the dialysis tubes. Eventually the body will succumb to the stress of the dialysis process or to the infection that it will just give up.
So, save your kidney and save yourself. Go on the special diet and stick to it for it will definitely stop the further corruption of your body from going through the Kidney disease stages.
