What's the symptom of kidney failure ?

Answer 1

Acute renal failure is a rapid decrease in renal function over days to weeks, causing an accumulation of nitrogenous products in the blood (azotemia). It often results from major trauma (bodily injury), illness, or surgery but in some cases is caused by a rapidly progressive, intrinsic (inherent or inside) renal disease. Symptoms include anorexia (loss or deficiency of appetite for food), nausea, and vomiting, progressing to seizures and coma if the condition is untreated. Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders develop quickly. Diagnosis is based on laboratory tests of renal function, including serum creatinine, renal failure index, and urinary sediment. Other tests are needed to determine the cause. Treatment is directed at the cause but also includes fluid and electrolyte management and sometimes dialysis.(Merck)
Symptoms of Acute Kidney failure:-
* Decrease in amount of urine (oliguria)
* Urination stops (anuria)
* Excessive urination at night
* Ankle, feet, and leg swelling
* Generalized swelling, fluid retention
* Decreased sensation, especially in the hands or feet
* Decreased appetite
* Metallic taste in mouth
* Persistent hiccups
* Changes in mental status or mood
# Agitation
# Drowsiness
# Lethargy
# Delirium or confusion
# Coma
# Mood changes
# Trouble paying attention
# Hallucinations
* Slow, sluggish, movements
* Seizures
* Hand tremor (shaking)
* Nausea or vomiting, may last for days
* Brusing easily
* Prolonged bleeding
* Nosebleeds
* Bloody stools
* Flank pain (between the ribs and hips)
* Fatigue
* Breath odor
* High blood pressure
Please see the web pages for more details on Acute Kidney failure, Chronic kidney failure, Chronic obstructive bilateral uropathy and End-stage kidney disease.

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Answer 4

If you're asking about kidney failure, then you obviously have some concern you might have it.

Before the kidneys fail there's an infection. A kidney infection can be caused by something as simple as a urinary tract infection. Your doctor can test you for that.

If you're asking for another reason, then this should be in the homework help area.

Answer 5

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What's the symptom of kidney failure ?

Answer 6

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Symptoms include:
1.yellowish eyes
2.pain in your sides
3.a build up of waste in your blood which results in severe illness
4.anemia
5.a metallic or other foreign taste in your mouth
6.tiredness
7.feeling cold
8.high blood pressure
9.insomnia
10.itching and dryness of the skin
11.loss of appetite or nausea
12.poor concentration, confusion, forgetfulness
13.poor sex drive
14.restless or cramped legs
15.shortness of breath
16swelling in the hands, feet, or face (especially around the eyes, when you just wake up)
17.urination problems, such as foamy or bloody urine, more or less urine than usual, or a change in how often you urinate
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Dr. J.

Answer 7

My husband was just told by his doctor that his blood test came back bad for his kidneys. There are 3 readings for kidneys, one is your creatine, bun, & urine. He had to get a ultra sound test for the kidney after his urine analyis which is a 24 hour test that measures how your kidneys are functioning. My husbands test were pretty bad. The reading was 43 the normal is 83 to 180. His creatine blood result was 1.6. Kidney faliure reading is 1.8. I gathered my husbands lab tests from 1992 to present and they all were between 1.3 and 1.5. So I decided to do some research. There are different kinds of kidney disease. I think my husbands is from the protein not being released and staying in the kidney which builds up. It means that he has to much protein that is being filtered through the kidney. But, my husband is also in re-ammision 4 years from cancer. He had alot of chemo in 21 days straight. He had alot of side effects from the chemo. I also noticed since January 2007 when the doctor told me about the kidney test results about a month later, he is swollen on the left side of his face and neck. His gland is really swollen more in the last week. I am going to do more research but I don't think it looks good for him. Go to your doctor and tell him to give you a blood test, urine test, & ultra sound if you think you are having kidney trouble. My husband had no syptoms. The only way he knew about his kidneys is by the test results the doctor told us. There were no sypmtoms or pain. Good Luck.

Answer 8

You probably mean chronic as opposed to acute. Early symptoms may include sluggishness, fatigue and mental dullness. One may also have oliguria with dark or amber urine and peripheral edema. Later symptoms may include anuria, generalized edema, convulsions, GI bleeds, malnutrition and neuropathies. Frequently anemia. The skin may turn a yellow-brown. And due to hypervolemia, frequently CHF and HTN follow.

At the beginning you wouldn't even know you had it so unless you went in for blood work because you felt crummy, it's highly unlikely that it would be picked up by labs right away. And a BUN and creatinine aren't symptoms, they're signs.

Answer 9

Being assigned to dialysis might be considered a clue. As previously suggested, you will note an inability to relieve yourself without massive pain is a sure sign, as well as excessive thirst; an indication of dehydration prompted by malfunctioning kidneys. If this is happening to you, I sincerely hope you have health insurance or have the ability to get to an emergency facility where you can get put on welfare, SSI or some other program to satisfy the intake billers. Lie about a job you never did find if necessary as kidney failure is a death threat and the hospital is not gonna turn you down just because you don't have Mastercharge or Visa. If you have a simple kidney infection, it can be relieved by homeopathic methods such as STOP BOOZING and drink a lot of Cranberry juice for the next three days or a usually ten day antibiotic course, but if you have a progressive kidney disease such as nephritis, you have anything from a careful conservative course of meds and pristine behavior to making out your will and other financial arrangements.
Be advised my experience with kidney failure is limited to one human friend and two felines.
The fate of my human friend is unknown as I moved from Pittsburgh,PA where she was undergoing dialysis to NV where I learned how to "cath a cat" when I took him in with extreme urinary tract symptoms and he survived another 14 years with FUS (feline urinary syndrome). I witnessed the extraction of urinary crystals from his body and while they could be mistaken for diamonds, they were not. I owe my current DVM about $200 which is a far stone thrown from the initial $12,000 around my neck. In human terms, advance that service to a debit of $120,000 or much more as you can earn wages and my cat could not.
I am free to die from my own incurred diseases such as emphsema and my debts all paid. Somehow I love and sympathsize with you.

Answer 10

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