Kidney awareness...

The sentence "Don't take your organs to heaven for God knows they are needed here" on the official website of Narmada Kidney Foundation prompted us at Eves Beauty and Hair Academy to bring up this health related topic in regards to kidney.

Some of the functions performed by the kidneys are:

The kidneys remove the waste products from the blood and regulate volume and composition of the body water as explained above.

They help to regulate the blood pressure. Therefore, high blood pressure should make one think of the possibility of a kidney disease.

They produce a hormone called erythropoietin which plays an important role in the formation of red blood cells (RBC). When the production of this hormone is decreased, the RBC production is decreased leading to anemia. Thus, when the kidneys fail, no matter how much iron and vitamins one takes, the anemia will not improve.

The kidneys activate vitamin D. For vitamin D, to regulate calcium absorption from the diet and help bone formation, it has to be activated in the`liver and the kidney. Therefore, when kidneys fail, vitamin D cannot be activated and the bones become weak. In fact, weak bones may be the first sign of kidney disease in growing children.

For more details, click here for Narmada Kidney Foundation.

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