Questions tagged [kidney]
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Which one is more harmful for your kidneys, drinking more or less water?
Which is more harmful for your kidneys? Drinking more than enough water or having less than the minimum amount required?
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What can cause foamy urine other than protein?
I have got foamy urine for half a year and I recently feel obvious pain and burp after urine. However, when I use a urine test stick to test my urine (sold here), everything goes fine (no protein, no ...
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Does an organ of a male donor work on a female patient?
Each cell of a human body contains 46 chromosomes. If so then each cell of a kidney should have a pair of sex chromosomes. How is it possible that a kidney of a female donor will work on male kidney ...
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Eating egg shells: advantages v.s. disadvantages?
I am an engineer and a scientist, but not in the field of medicine or health. Partial answers/comments are welcome.
Some of my family members start eating egg shells for the sake of obtaining ...
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Is salt bad for kidneys?
I heard from the street that salt is bad for kidneys. But I heard from others that all salt does is pick up blood pressure, which can cause damage to the kidneys.
My question is if salt is bad for ...
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What are the common causes of excess protein (1 g) in the urine for kidney donors?
I am looking for common causes in diet or lifestyle or other conditions such as hypertension, rather than malfunction in the active (single) kidney.
Apart from medical management, what are some ...
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Blood in urine without seeing it...?
I came from my doctor and he did a urine sample and said there was blood in my urine. I've never seen "blood" in my urine or had any issues with my kidneys so I was perplexed by this. Is this ...
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Is E. coli contagious?
I have a girl that I'm seeing. She was just in the hospital about 2 weeks ago with an internal E.coli infection in her kidney (she had the other kidney removed due to cancer). She has been given a ton ...
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Supersaturation vs Undersaturation of the Urine | Kidney Stones
A significant factor that determines if a crystal will develop into a kidney stone is the saturation of the urine with stone-forming salts. From my understanding, supersaturation leads to precipitates ...
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Why/how are some drugs nephrotoxic?
I want to know the (more or less) exact mechanism by which specific nephrotoxic medications damage the kidneys. For some drugs it seems relatively intuitive that they interfere with the function of ...
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Why does caffeine raise your blood pressure when it's a diuretic?
Why does caffeine raise your blood pressure when it puts your kidneys into overdrive?
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To what degree does a Vitamin D course mitigate the effects of Primary Hyperparathyroidism?
Primary Hyperparathyroidism, often caused by a parathyroid gland having an adenoma on it, increases the release of the parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the body. This causes the excess release of calcium ...
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Is it safer to take Naproxen once a day or twice a day?
Given the choice of taking 500mg of Naproxen once a day, or 250mg of Naproxen twice a day (separated by ~12 hours), which is safer for the kidneys and liver?
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Why do corticosteroids have few kidney-related side effects?
Prostaglandins are involved with promoting various renal functions. Therefore, NSAIDs, like indomethacin which inhibits protaglandin formation through COX enzyme inhibition, tend to have many side-...
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When would estimates of renal function based on serum and urine measurements differ as greatly as one being normal and the other suggesting CKD 3b?
Renal function (GFR or creatinine clearance) as estimated by serum creatinine and 24-hour urine collection should in theory closely correlate.
However, I have run into a case where they differ ...
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Can sweet lime and orange cause kidney stone?
I eat two sweet lime or orange daily after lunch and dinner. I have been doing this since 3 years for 3-4 months during the season of these two fruits.
As we know these fruits are acidic, is it ...
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Why does GFR have such a strange unit of measurement?
I have learned the unit of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is commonly reported in mL/min/1.73m².
I cannot figure out the 1.73, is it just a scaling factor to get a number around 100 or does it have ...
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Urine glucose testing for diabetes control
A publication in the NCBI bookshelf called Type 2 diabetes: Measuring sugar levels in blood and urine yourself (IQWiG, 2010) it states that
Having sugar in your urine is usually a sign of very high ...
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Why is Polycystic Kidney Disease(PKD) so difficult to cure?
Description of Disease : An inherited disorder in which clusters of cysts develop in the kidneys.
Common
More than 1 million cases per year (India)
Treatment can help but this condition can't ...
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Dystonic Reaction and acute kidney failure
Dystonic reactions seem to be a common reaction on a lot of the antipsychotic drugs.
Also kidney failure. Are these issues related in any way?
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Is Adderall safe for someone who donated a kidney?
I donated my kidney many years ago to some random two year old. It was major surgery, but it did get me a month paid vacation on short term disability and was a great way to lose weight (stupid ...
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Can holding pee cause kidney damage?
Suppose a person, drank 400ml-800ml of water, and he pees after 6 hours, when he wakes after sleep in the night. Keeping that context I'm concerned, if this could cause kidneys to damage (or fail!).
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Why does kidney disease result in some things being filtered out but not others?
Why does kidney disease result in glucose and protein being excreted in urine, but creatinine staying in the blood?
"If the filtration in the kidney is deficient, blood creatinine concentrations rise....
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How can a significant increase in survival not be interpreted as a significant decrease in mortality?
Link to paper
In this paper they explain in their results that they were unable to show a significant link between terlipressin and mortality, however, they were able to show a significant link ...
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Does consuming Creatine harm the kidneys, or does it artificially elevate serum Creatinine?
How does taking the supplement Creatine affect the kidney?
I took Creatine 30 mins before a blood test.
I am curious if is it POSSIBLE that the test will be falsely elevated by measuring Creatine ...
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Can I donate a kidney later and recieve one now? [closed]
The kidney voucher allows one to donate a kidney now and get a kidney coupon which they give to a friend or family member, which they can redeem for a kidney later.
Is the reverse possible? Can I ...
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What does it mean for a medication to be "hard for the liver" or "hard on the kidneys"?
We often hear that a medication is "hard for the liver" or "hard on the kidneys". What does that really mean?
What about when a person takes vitamin pills? Is that also hard on the liver or kidneys?...
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What is considered a high but safe amount of D-mannose before causing kidney damage? [closed]
I'm currently taking a product called: Vibrant Health - U.T. Vibrance, Crisis Intervention Formula, which suggests to take 5 grams of this product 4 times a day, so basically 20 grams a day for about ...
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Quick way to determine if a medication is processed in the kidneys or liver?
What is a quick way to determine if a medication is processed in the kidneys or liver (or elsewhere)?
For example, let's take a few common medications: acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen....
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Different names for eGFR measurement
I had a look at our hospital database and found out that we have the below measurements
Estimated Glomerular Filtration ml/min
Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate ml/min
Estimated ...
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What is the longest kidney-exchange cycle yet?
What is the longest kidney-exchange cycle yet? I.e. the longest cycle of simultaneous surgeries "donor1-recipient2-donor2-recipient3 ... donorXX-recipient1"
I am preparing a lecture on the Roth-...
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Examination: sonographic evaluation of abdomen and pelvis - report
Can someone explain the medical terms in this report of ultrasound investigation?
Examination: sonographic evaluation of abdomen and pelvis
Clinical complaint of right hypochondriac region ...
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How can a ruptured ulcer all the way in the duodenum, cause kidney failure?
The famous Nobel Prize winning physicist is said to have died because
"A ruptured duodenal ulcer caused kidney failure",
leading to his death 12 days later. I understand that the kidney ...
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