On World Kidney Day 2025, Dr. Ashok Bhat, Consultant - Nephrology, highlights key steps to prevent kidney diseases.

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Preventing Kidney Diseases | Dr. Ashok Bhat | KMC Hospital Mangaluru

[Music] for those of you who have been diagnosed as having chronic kidney disease you need not panic there are a lot of Remedies available to prevent a rapid progression of chronic kidney disease and from reaching the stage of kidney failure provided it has been detected early enough for those who have protein Ura that is protein in the urine there are several medications which can help to reduce the protein excretion in urine in addition to this a good control of blood pressure keeping the blood pressures less than 130 by 80 most of the times and for those of you who are diabetics keeping your blood sugar under control can help in a long way to prevent progression blood pressure and blood sugar control does not mean one office Reading when you visit your doctor but self monitoring of blood pressure and blood sugar by patients themselves in their house helps much more than single office readings patients who have immunological disorders and who have protein and blood in the urine may have to undergo a test called kidney biopsy to see whether there is any reversible illness those with kidney stones and obstruction may have to undergo surgical procedures to relieve the same in addition one has to maintain a ideal body weight regular exercise avoid smoking and proper diet here there are several Mis conceptions among patients regarding fluid intake excessive fluid intake is not recommended too little fluid intake is also not recommended each individual patient requirement is different depending upon the volume status so each patient will have to coordinate with this doctor as to how much fluid he or she needs to take depending upon the stage of his or her kidney disease in addition to those with long-standing chronic kidney disease a moderate restriction of protein intake in the diet and a restriction of potassium intake in the diet can help in preventing progression of the disease

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