Renal failure?

Question

Person who have diabetes that suffer from Renal failure does that mean they let their diabetes get out of control. What about a person who keeps their numbers between 100 and 130 all the time will those numbers promote Renal failure, blindness or foot problems?

Person who have diabetes that suffer from Renal failure does that mean they let their diabetes get out of control? What about a person who keeps their numbers between 100 and 130 all the time will those numbers promote Renal failure, blindness or foot problems?

Answer 1

I don't know about the diabetes part,but my husband had full renal failure caused by a genetic disorder. By going on dialysis and getting friends and family to test for a match, my husband was given a kidney and is somewhat healthy again.

I hope you are able to keep your diabetes under control, and never have to see anymore devastation. Good luck, Hon.

Answer 2

Some people are just very unlucky! Not everyone that smokes gets lung cancer - but they are more likely than the general population. And some nonsmokers get lung cancer. So it is with Diabetics. Not all poorly controlled Diabetics will get Renal Failure - though they are more likely too. And some very conscientious Diabetics will get Renal Failure.
A much better indication of glucose control is the use of the Hemoglobin A1c test.

Answer 3

Long term effects and complications of diabetes affect nerves, small, and large vessels of our body. When dibetes affects nerves there is nerve damage, (specialy on the legs; a diabetic people feel numbness or sometimes they don't feel when a sharp rock or glass is cutting through their skin). This is why they develop skin cuts that may advance to gangrene. The reason is because blood has soo much sugar; that it creates a great food environment for bacteria.

Renal failure developes due to the rise in blood pressure. When a patient does not control their sugar; their blood pressure increases. The reason is because there is a basic filtration unit in the kidney called nephron that gets destroyed with high blood pressure. Nephron is basic functional unit that is responsable for filtrating our blood and getting rid of all the body waste.
Blood passes through the this unit and gets rid of all the waste that our body doesn't need. When there is less filtrate due to the high destruction of nephrons due to the uncontroled diabetes; there is less urine produced. Destruction of nephrons can be so high that it may develop to RENAL FAILURE; where there is so many destroyed nephrones that there is little urine produced by the body. A controled diabetes means less damage to our nerves and less damage to our NEPHRONES

Answer 4

The dry food/kidney compromise link is now actually being taught in many vet schools! Due to my rescue work, I meet/talk to a great number of vets, some new some old. The vets just out of school (and those like my own vet who attend 4 weeks + of conferences a year) are now really pushing an all canned diet, and kidney compromise is one of the reasons. There must be studies out there, or they wouldn't be teaching this now. I'll ask my vet the next time I'm there, which of course will be too late for this question but not for future ones. Like all things, I doubt there is any solid "proof" but it really does make sense. When we stray from the diet that Nature designed cats to eat, then there are bound to be consequences. I have two kidney compromised cats (one is elderly, one has a birth defect and his kidneys are way too small) and both are on a non-prescription all-canned diet. High quality protein, and no by-products. Vet's orders! And their kidney numbers since swithching to the all-canned have improved, as has the specific gravity of their urine.

Answer 5

If you keep your diabetes under control, you greatly lessen the possibility of developing diabetic neuropathy, renal failure, or blindness. Unfortunately, it's still possible to develop these conditions even if you are very careful with your blood sugar. So, if you have one of these conditions, it doesn't necessarily mean you were careless about controlling your blood sugar.
Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Under 100 is best. Those are extremes and very real ones, myopathy is the first one- lose of feelings in your toes/feet and serious blood /nerve issues with the legs.

Diabetes is a livable disease. Literally everyone in my whole family has it. You must get your self well educated and keep a log. Get to the doctor ASAP. Form a good relationship with them or a specialist.

The American diabetes assn. is wonderful- go on line and look it up, get the magazines and most of all, never doubt even when you levels are normal that you are always diabetic and watch everything that goes into your body.

Best wishes.

Answer 7

Please see the webpages for more details on Acute kidney failure. Control of diabetes will not prevent other organ failures but It will only delay or postpone the damage of other organs. For a diabetic patient, periodical examinations of nerve, eyes, teeth, heart, liver, kidney and foot are necessary even if the doctor is not advising for the same.

Answer 8

Renal failure leads to death of the physical body.

Answer 9

If your numbers are in that range then you should be ok. There are no guarantees with diabetes. But as long as you are doing what you need to be doing then those number are ok.

Answer 10

The complications of diabetes occur even with the best control. Your numbers are good control..Good luck.