Types of kidney disease

The term kidney disease refers to any disorder or impairment that can affect how healthy kidney functions. A kidney is said to be diseased when it loses its ability to filter out excess toxins from the body. The result is the accumulation of fluid in the tissues thereby causing several other impairments in the body. Due to this fluid buildup, you may notice swelling in the hands, ankles, or around your face. If not treated on time or avoided the complications may even lead to kidney failure. Here is a list of different types of kidney disease that you should know:

• Polycystic Kidney Disease: PKD is an inherited disorder in which a fluid called cysts develops within or at the linings of your kidney thereby making your kidney enlarge than its normal size. However, cysts are non-cancerous fluid. Cysts may vary in size and grow by 0.5 or larger before you actually diagnose the symptoms. Since PKD is inherited, it is necessary to have one or more family members to be diagnosed with the same. This disease may also lead to progressive loss of kidney function as the age passes.

• Acute kidney disease: Acute kidney injury is sudden damage to the kidneys, therefore, patient’s kidneys become unable to filter out toxins from the blood. When kidneys become unhealthy, fluid gets build up in the blood leading to excess toxins in your blood. Acute kidney injury may also lead to acute renal failure if not cured on time. The main causes of AKD are excess consumption of drugs, kidney stones, enlarged prostate, and chronic kidney disease may also be turned out to be acute kidney injury.

• Chronic kidney failure: When kidney’s functionality get worsens gradually over a period of time it is said to be CKD. CKD also aids to end-stage renal failure or kidney failure. Therefore, it is imperative to start ayurvedic treatment for kidney disease to avoid such conditions. There are many underlying causes of CKD, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, damaged to the blood vessels, PKD, glomerulonephritis, and UTI etc.

• Nephrotic syndrome: Nephrotic syndrome is not a disease but a kind of disorder that exhibits one or more symptoms in the body. Nephrotic arises because of too much protein in the urine, low level of protein in the blood, and high level of fat and cholesterol in the patient’s blood. Nephrotic syndrome is more common among the children between ages 2 to 6. Swelling in the body parts, weight gain, loss of appetite, dizziness are some of the tell-tale signs of the nephrotic syndrome. 

For every kidney disease, Karma Ayurveda offers ayurvedic treatment for kidney problems so that complications of kidney failure can be avoided. The treatment is completely natural and herbal and works on the underlying causes of the problem rather than on the problem only. If you want a solution for your kidney disease, approaching Karma Ayurveda can never go in vain.

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