Making Kidney Smart Choices to Avoid Renal Failure
Chronic kidney disease is no picnic for anyone. In fact, it can be a downright scary time. Sometime, you may even feel a little bit hopeless. The fact is, that kidney failure is not inevitable. The sooner you begin making kidney smart choices, the better your odds are of stopping the progression into full renal failure. These are a few of the choices you definitely want to make.
Quit Smoking
Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Do not wait for a New Year’s resolution. Quit smoking today. It’s that important. Not only does smoking increase your risks of full renal failure, it also hastens the process.
Additionally, smoking places greater strain on your heart and lungs creating situations where heart disease and lung function may be impaired. There’s no good that can result in spending another day smoking. If you’re struggling to quit, talk to your doctor about prescriptive help in your efforts to quit. There are no more important and directly beneficial kidney smart choices you can make than to quit smoking now.
Get Active in Your Daily Life
While not quite as beneficial among kidney smart choices as quitting smoking, getting active has a few fringe benefits of its own. People who are active enjoy a better quality of life than those who lead sedentary lifestyles.
Activity gives you exercise that doesn’t necessarily feel like exercise and being active keeps the blood flowing throughout your body, which moves minerals, nutrients, and oxygen to the places it needs to reach in order to be used by the body.
Take Control of Your Treatment
So often, by the time people reach the stage where they’re entering into kidney failure, they’ve been “victims” of circumstance in their health so long they don’t know any other way to be. It doesn’t have to be that way and it cannot be that way if you’re serious about making kidney smart choices. You must become an active participant in your health plan in order to make it work this time around.
You can’t passively let things happen to you as you approach kidney failure and hope it will work itself out. It won’t. It’s up to you to make kidney smart choices and one of the first choices needs to be to inform yourself about your condition, the risks, the responsibilities, and the next steps you need to take.
Why is it so important to make kidney smart choices?
The kidneys are vital organs that are necessary for eliminating toxins and fluids from the body. When they don’t operate as they should, these things remain within the body longer, leading to bigger health problems down the road. Sometimes the path leads to dialysis and a new way of living for you.
Making kidney smart choices now can stop the progression of kidney disease, but you must begin making those choices today. The sooner you accomplish this particular mission, the greater kidney function you’ll be able to maintain.
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