Introduction
Your kidneys are Bean-shaped organs located near the middle of your back, one on either side of your spine. Each is about the size of a fist. Your kidneys are part of your urinary tract, which is the group of organs that make urine (I. e pee) and remove it from your body.
Importants ok kidneys
Kidney as one of the most important organs of the body helps to remove wastes and extra fluid from your body. Your kidneys also removes acids that is produced by the cells of your body and maintain a healthy balance of water, salts and minerals. Such as soldium,calsium, phosphorus and potassium_ in your blood.
The kidneys also perform the function of making hormones that controls our blood pressure, as well as produce erythropoietin, a type of hormone -that manages hemoglobin or red blood cells. Kidneys also synthesize active vitamin D to keep our bones healthy.
How kidneys works
Think of your kidneys as a collection of strainers with very five pores ,working together to filter your entire blood volume 60times per day.
Each kidney has approximately I million nephrons, which hold a filtering unit called the glomerulus,where the blood is filtered,and a urine collection unit called the tubule,where the toxins are concentrated and minerals and water balances and achieved.
Waste products produced from food and drug metabolism,as well as normal tissue function and extract fluid that the body does not need.
Definition of kidney.
Kidney can be defined as one of the organs (bean shape) in a human body that helps remove waste and extra water from the blood (as urine) and help keep chemicals (such as soldium, potassium and calsium) balanced in the body. The kidneys also make hormones that help control blood pressure and stimulate bone marrow to make red blood cells.
Clinical implications
Chronic kidney disease,also called chronic kidney failure, involves a gradual loss of kidney function. Your kidney filters waste and excess fluids from your blood, which are then removed in your urine. Advanced chronic kidney disease can cause dangerous levels of fluid, Electrolytes and waste to build up in your body.
Chronic kidney disease is a disease characterized by progressive damage and loss of function in the kidneys.it is estimated that chronic kidney disease affects about one in seven American Adults. And most of those don't know they have it.
Before we get into the disease itself, let's talk about a little bit about the kidneys and what they do. Our kidneys play many important roles keeping our bodies in balance. They remove waste and toxins,excess water from the blood stream, which is carried out of the body in urine.they help to make homones to produce red blood cells, and they turn vitamin D into it's active form,so it's usuable in the body.
There are quite a few things that can cause or put you at higher risk for chronic kidney disease.some of them are not things that can be avoided: Your risk is simply higher if you have a family history of certain genetic condition like polycystic kidney disease or some autoimmune disease like lupus or IgA nephropathy. Defects in the kidney structure can also cause your kidneys to fail and you have an increase risk as you get older. Other factors that can increase your risk of chronic kidney disease include: Diabetes, High blood pressure, Heart disease (cardiovascular) smoking,obesity, Frequent use of medications that can damage kidneys.
Complications:
Chronic kidney disease can affect, almost every part of your body.potential complications include:
1, fluid retention, which could lead to swelling in your arms and legs, high blood pressure,or fluid in your lungs ( pulmonary edema)
2,A sudden rise in potassium levels in your blood (hyperkalemia) which could impair your hearts function and can be life threatening.
3, weak bones and increase risk of bone fractures.
Conclusion
Your kidneys is very important to you,and you need to take care of it by abstaining from already mentioned habits that can lead to chronic kidney disease.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-kidney-disease/multimedia/how-kidneys-work-video/vid-20207497
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/kidneys-how-they-work#:~:text=Healthy%20kidneys%20filter%20about%20a,each%20side%20of%20your%20bladder