10 percent people in India are victims of kidney disease. Most of the patients get diagnosed with their disease very late and due to this the number of kidney failure patients is increasing. Dr., Chairman of the Department of Nephrology, AIIMS Delhi. According to Bhowmik, the biggest challenge with the kidney is that its damage is detected so late that in 70 percent of the patients, the chances of recovery are reduced. According to AIIMS report, 7 percent of people in India are damaging their kidneys by taking painkillers.
According to experts, if urine test is done from time to time, early signs of any kind of kidney problem can be detected. By the time symptoms appear, it is often too late. Therefore, the problem can be detected only by getting a routine checkup done.
Although many options exist for kidney treatment, including medication, surgery, dialysis, and transplant, life is often difficult for patients with chronic kidney disease. Kidney patients are also prone to high blood pressure and the amount of hemoglobin in the blood is often low due to which such patients always feel sick and their immune system also becomes weak.