Diabetic nephropathy

Diabetes and obesity are related to kidney failure. There are many people who are both diabetic and obese, and therefore are at greater risk of being diagnosed with serious kidney problems that lead to dialysis or the need for a transplant. Kidney failure and the damage it causes in a diabetic patient is called diabetic nephropathy. The job of the kidneys is to clean the blood. But when it has excess sugar (glucose) present it causes damage to the kidneys. Which can occur even before being diagnosed or without being an obese diabetic. But high presence of sugars is present in the bodies of obese and diabetic people, being a problem for these organs and other bodily functions. Unfortunately there are no symptoms during the first signs of kidney damage. You probably won’t know it’s happening unless your doctor performs a test to check the protein in your urine. If the doctor considers that the presence of protein is abnormal, he or she should monitor it to detect irregularities. During the early stages of diabetic nephropathy the kidneys are still able to function and do their job of cleaning the blood but you must take steps to get blood glucose levels under control to prevent further damage to the kidneys. If your kidneys fail you are at risk for high blood pressure and a buildup of toxins in the blood that the kidneys are unable to filter. The two options available in such a situation are dialysis or a kidney transplant. Dialysis is a method of cleaning the blood using an external machine that returns it clean to the body.