Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Kritnaphat N. asked: Kidneys are important organic for everybody. Kidneys' shapes are like two beans and size of kidney is same as own fists. Kidneys are located near the middle of back which is below the rib cage. Inside each kidney is consisting of a million tiny structures called ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
peterhutch asked: The kidneys are like the body's garbage collection and disposal system. Through microscopic units called nephrons, the kidneys remove waste products and extra water from the food a person eats, returning chemicals the body needs (such as sodium, phosphorus, and potassium) back into the bloodstream. The extra water ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Paul Blake asked: For each organ of the human body there is a herb that outshines all others in its ability to assist that organ when it is diseased. Juniper berries are magic when it comes to the kidney and urinary tract system. I say magic because I ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
* asked: I was reading my can of deodorant earlier and it said to ask a dr before using if you have kidney disease, why for?Jessie
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Michael Webb asked: Our kidneys are very important to us. Without actively functioning kidneys, the presence of kidney disease can be devastating for a person. In the worst case scenario, an individual will need to be on dialysis or receive a kidney transplant to replace the diseased kidneys.
There are ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Groshan Fabiola asked: Diabetes causes damage to the kidneys by causing harm to the small blood vessels that make the kidneys filters. If the filters get really damaged then chronic kidney disease develops. This is an incurable disease but it can be controlled. An early treatment of diabetes helps by ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Patricia Woloch asked: NSF/NFD is a very painful and debilitating condition, when can be fatal. No consistently effective treatment has been found. Only a small percentage of cases have been successfully reversed.
What causes NSF/NFD
NSF/NFD is caused by gadolinium-based contrast agents used in MRI’s (magnetic resonance imaging). At this point, it ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
just me asked: How is kidney dialysis done; is it very uncomfortable and do you feel better after a treatment?Floyd
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Lisa McDowell asked: Gout disease is most common in people between the ages of 30 and 50 years of age. The reason for this is that it takes a build up of about twenty years to cause a first gout attack. Uric acid levels will usually begin to increase at ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Brenda Stokes asked: Kidney is either of the two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them in urine which passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder. It also plays an important role in homeostasis i.e. physiological equilibrium that is actively ...
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