According to the National Kidney Foundation, more than 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease and most don’t know it.Anyone anyone 18 years and older with high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of these conditions or kidney disease is a candidate for kidney disease.
If the skin peels off easy, like tangerines, it is low potassium
Having to go through hemodialysis is very important in the maintenance of kidney disease, along with maintaining your diet. Good foods to eat include carrots, cucumber, peaches, watermelon, tangerines, but not oranges. Oranges have high potassium. Your diet may change once you start dialysis.
Preventive programs are necessary to promote the oral health status
This is particularly true of haemodialysis patients since patients with chronic renal failure have less favorable periodontal health than the average patient, according to information from the Department of Oral Medicine, Iranian Center for Research in Oral and Dental Diseases, Kerman School of Dentistry. A better diet will also affect your oral health.
Periodontal health may improve after renal transplantation
At the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, Helsinki University Central Hospital and Institute of Dentistry at the University of Helsinki, Finland found that saliva components after renal transplantation showed significant improvement compared with components found during the predialysis stage.
It has also been found by the Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry at Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam that renal transplantation enhances salivary flow and decreases symptoms of xerostomia and thirst.
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