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As just mentioned, this kidney disease is particularly typical. With the symptoms you just mentioned, you should definitely go to the doctor. This disease can mainly affect women. Do you suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes, or have you been taking a lot of protein lately? Then you should listen carefully now, because all of this can be risk factors for kidney problems. It could be that you are susceptible to a kidney disease, maybe genetically conditioned. And you shouldn't take that lightly now. Because our body needs our functioning kidneys. Our kidneys are the filter system of our body. And now I'm going to show you in this video the five most common kidney diseases that could affect you, regardless of whether you are young or old. And I'll also show you how you notice these kidney diseases. Typical signs of how they can be treated and whether you are susceptible to a disease. So take a quick look at the video now and correctly interpret potential symptoms. Hello, my name is Dr. Tobias Weigel. With my YouTube channel, I would like to make a contribution to explain medically understandably and correctly about diseases, causes of these diseases and what we can do about them ourselves. And if you don't want to miss anything, feel free to subscribe to my channel now. Every healthy person is born with two kidneys. A right kidney and a left kidney. And these kidney-shaped organs help us to filter our food, nutrients and toxins every day. Kidneys form our urine and take waste matter and more out of our body through these toxins. Our urine is the waste water of our body. Our kidneys are filters, they are the clearance of our body. Salts, water and nutrients get back into our bloodstream through the kidneys, for example, and are therefore filtered back out of the urine. You see, our kidneys are important for survival so that we can live healthily. But what happens if these kidneys no longer function as they should? How badly kidneys can be affected also depends on which kidney disease they suffer from. So let's take a closer look at the five most common kidney diseases that can affect each of us. That's why it's important to know them and to pay attention to first signs. We call kidney diseases in medicine, in a clever way, general nephropathy. Stay tuned until the end so that you can go to your doctor in time and have a possible disease diagnosed as soon as possible. At the end of the video, I'll give you some more tips. Your kidneys may also be affected without you being aware of it. Don't worry, it doesn't always have to be life-threatening. It may also be that a kidney disease is gradually getting worse and worse, keyword chronic. But you should do something about it anyway. For your information, there are also genetic kidney diseases, such as Morbus Addison. But since this one is rarer, I won't go into that one. Now let's get to the five most common cases. And before we talk about them, let's talk about my own thing, the reference to my advisors. I'm talking about a healthy diet. Keyword healthy food, healthy diet pattern for certain diseases, people who also have a lack of nutrients. So feel free to check out my shop. Kidney stones My glass is almost empty again and if you are one of those people who don't drink enough water, you could be more susceptible to kidney stones. According to current studies, men and women are about equally affected by kidney stones, even though it used to be attributed to men more often. However, this is important for both sexes. You are susceptible to kidney stones if your diet is too protein or fatty, you have a urethritis infection or you take a lot of medication. So medication can also cause kidney stones as a side effect. In all these cases, small deposits of the kidneys can form. These consist of calcium and are very small. You can simply excrete this so-called kidney grease from the urine. However, they clump over time and become bigger and bigger. Then it comes to kidney stones. And the stones are so big that they can block the urethra. You have to imagine a pipe and then there is a stone in it that closes the pipe and then it just doesn't flow anymore. This can make you noticeable, among other things, in pain in the back or in the lower abdomen. And very important to know, what do you typically recognize a kidney stone patient with? He moves a lot. Why? They always say the stone is moving, the pain is moving, the patient is moving. What can you do with kidney stones? If the kidney stones are about 7 mm in size, then you can simply drain them with a lot of drinking and moving. Of course, you don't know how big they are yourself. That's why the first measure is always to drink a lot. There are two other solutions. Medications prescribed by your doctor or shock wave therapy. At the ESWL, doctors crush the kidney stones from the outside with high-energy sound waves. But so that it doesn't get that far, you can preemptively rely on a healthy diet and exercise in everyday life. Sometimes this cannot be avoided. But healthy diet and exercise are important components to prevent kidney stones from forming of such a size, that they ultimately only get rid of with medical help. Kidney and pelvic inflammation Especially women, especially women in the changing years or pregnant women, can quickly develop pelvic inflammation. The cause is usually a bacterial infection of the urethra, such as bladder inflammation. Typical bladder inflammation, which is not treated in time. Where the pathogens from the bladder slowly move up towards the urinary tract. You could also be susceptible if you already have kidney stones, which I explained before. Once detected, the urinary inflammation is quickly under control. But that's important and you have to do it. For this you need antibiotics. But you don't always have pain in the abdominal region with a urinary tract inflammation. Therefore, this inflammation is often unnoticed. This is not good. Because this can also lead to a chronic inflammation. What that means, you will find out in a moment. So stay tuned. But very important, especially with older patients in nursing homes, I have often experienced this as an emergency doctor. Patients have a tooth decay infection, but remain untreated for a longer time. Lying in bed, so to speak. And then this infection slowly increases. This can lead to a bladder inflammation, blood poisoning, sepsis. And in the worst case, it can also end deadly. So you should always know that. Acute and chronic kidney failure. An acute kidney failure, also as a result of a bladder inflammation, occurs relatively quickly, unlike other kidney diseases, which I will mention in a moment. The kidneys no longer function within a few hours or days. As a first sign, you may only notice that you have to leave water less often. And at the same time, swellings in the body, i.e. fluid accumulation, occur. As an emergency doctor, I have already experienced this. Also a relatively young patient who has had an infection for three or four days. And in the end, it led to an acute kidney failure. It was typical that he did not pee for a few days. In addition, fatigue, nausea, cramps. In the end, you are no longer clear in your head. So this can all be very typical. And then it is of course also very, very important to go to the hospital very quickly. If necessary, also call the emergency doctor. Kidney failure can be facilitated by many causes. These include smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, overweight, and of course also acute, current infections that you have. A chronic kidney failure is in many cases actually more dangerous than an acute one. Why? Because in some cases, an acute kidney failure turns into a chronic kidney failure according to studies. With acute kidney failure, you often have complaints. You still treat them. You don't really notice the chronic kidney failure. With chronic kidney failure, we are talking about problems with the kidney that last longer than three months. The insufficiency can then become chronic, because patients rarely notice, as I said, that they are suffering from it. And that means that they don't go to the doctor and no one can do anything about it. The longer the disease remains undetected, the more dangerous it becomes, the more difficult it will be to treat it at some point. Especially typical again are older people. They can and are often affected by it. In Germany alone, about 10,000 people die every year from a chronic kidney disease. So that it doesn't get that far, there are treatment options, which I will now also go into. Dialysis or kidney transplantation in an emergency. Whether with a chronic or acute kidney failure, I have already experienced both, I have already treated patients with both at the intensive care unit, or with a genetic-related kidney failure, for example, if the kidney no longer works, the therapy option of dialysis comes into play. In fact, I have often had it with corona patients at the intensive care unit, that at some point the kidney also typically fails. A kidney replacement procedure also comes in addition. It often leads to a multi-organ failure. And very typically, the kidney also fails. And then you can always do a dialysis. So what is done with the dialysis? Here the blood is typically washed through 3 to 4 times a week for about 4 to 5 hours, if you do it ambulantly. At the intensive care unit you have a permanent dialysis procedure, so to speak, which permanently washes the kidney. In some cases, a kidney transplant is also necessary. Since we all have two kidneys, right and left, we can also live with only one healthy kidney. Therefore, you can get a donor kidney from both a living person and a deceased person. Important to know. Diabetic nephropathy. And these patient groups I'm talking about now often need a donor kidney. If you have been suffering from diabetes for over 10 to 15 years, then the risk, according to numerous studies, is well proven, especially large, that you are already suffering from a kidney disease. About 40% of all diabetics have kidney problems as a consequence and often need a donor kidney at some point. It shouldn't matter whether it's type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes. The kidney disease, also called smart diabetic nephropathy, describes various changes in the kidneys. These include inflammation or vessel changes. In the worst case, these lead to chronic kidney failure, i.e. chronic kidney insufficiency, as I just described. Especially if they don't act in time. So if you know you have diabetes, then always check your kidneys. And why are diabetics more susceptible to kidney disease? This is due to increased blood sugar. This permanently damages the kidney cells, which filter the pollutants and nutrients in our body. More precisely, they attack the membrane, which makes the kidney cells more permeable. And instead of filtering out the pollutants, larger substances get into the hair. Over time, this can cause the walls of the arteries to stick to the kidneys. To put it simply. As a result, substances that should be excreted with urine end up in the kidneys. And if these substances are bad, then they can damage the kidneys. If you are already suffering from this, then pay attention to the following symptoms. Typical signs such as itchiness, nausea, muscle cramps. And if you have that, then it can be that you have such a diabetic nephropathy. I have listed further symptoms here. If these signs occur in you as a diabetic, then it is advisable to immediately become clairvoyant and have it examined by a doctor. Your doctors can then make two tests to determine more precisely whether you are suffering from kidney damage. On the one hand, this is what you typically do, a blood test. Too few red blood cells in a blood test can be an indicator. A urine test also helps. An increased protein content in your urine can also indicate a change in the kidneys. In general, there are different kidney values that are examined. And at this point a reference to my other video, where I specifically go into the blood values that are important for the kidneys. These are GFR, the glomerular filtration rate, cystatin C, as well as creatinine, also uric acid, and vascular nephropathy. Blood pressure is also highly likely that at some point in your life you will suffer from a kidney disease. Blood pressure is often heard badly for the heart, but also badly for the kidneys. It is interesting that you can only get blood pressure through a kidney disease. So the other way around. You should also think about your kidneys when your blood pressure is high and this differential diagnosis is then also done by your doctor. Blood pressure can already help reduce blood pressure and at the same time reduce the likelihood that your kidneys will get sick. That's why it's important to reduce a high blood pressure, not just because of the vessels in general, but also because of the kidneys. If you are already suffering from high blood pressure, then you can have your urine or blood tested for creatinine, for example. I just mentioned it briefly and if this is increased, this could lead to a kidney disease, for example. But even if you don't have diabetes, no high blood pressure, you can get a kidney disease again and again. I just mentioned some of them. That's why it's important to do the check-up from the age of 35. You can repeat it every three years and you will be tested for cardiovascular disease as well as for kidney disease. And that's why it's very important to take care of it yourself. Kidney diseases can affect any of us. There is no acute kidney failure that is really life-threatening, as well as a chronic course. And it's very important to always take your blood. And you can keep your urine in mind. The color of the urine, the smell of the urine, I've already made a video about that. Because the urine tells us a lot, just like our kidneys work. So whether man or woman, young or old, with or without high blood pressure, diabetes, no diabetes, the five most common kidney diseases you can meet at any time. Take changes in your body seriously. Complaints, especially in the flanks, that's where the kidneys are. Pay attention to that. Take care of your urine as well. How does it smell? What does it look like? Does it foam heavily? That could be a sign of a so-called protein urine. So that a lot of protein is squeezed out of it. And kidneys are typically examined by a GP. You can do a blood sample, please give the video a thumbs up. Thank you very much and stay tuned.