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Homeopathy can save the day for kidney patients
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Although the number of dialysis centres is increasing in many regions of Pakistan, most patients stop treatment within the first three months because of cost constraints. Dialysis is not a permanent solution. It is rather an interim arrangement to keep alive the patient whose kidneys stop functioning.
Kidney transplantation is another option, but only about five per cent patients receive a transplant. The shortage of donors is a universal problem, and paid organ donation accounts for 70 per cent of all transplantations in Pakistan.
Most kidney diseases attack the tiny units inside the kidneys called nephrons, causing them to lose their filtering capacity. Damage to the nephrons can happen quickly, but most kidney diseases destroy them slowly and silently. Kidneys have to separate urea, mineral salts, toxins, and other waste products from the blood. The actual removal of wastes occurs in nephrons. Each kidney has about a million nephrons.
Kidneys are located nearly at the bottom of the rib-cage in the right and left sides of the back. The left kidney lies a little higher than the right kidney. Kidneys are bean-shaped, about four inches long and two and a half inches wide. Although the body is equipped with two kidneys, you can function with one reasonably healthy kidney if the other is damaged or removed.
Some people are born with only one kidney but can still lead normal, healthy lives. Every year, thousands of people donate one of their kidneys for transplantation to members of their families or friends.
The kidneys are highly sophisticated reprocessing machines. Every day, a person�s kidneys process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water. The wastes and extra water become urine; the kidneys also conserve water, salts, and electrolytes.
There are more than 100 disorders that can lead to progressive destruction of the kidneys. Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, accounting for more than 40 per cent of new cases. If glucose stays in the blood instead of breaking down, it can act like a poison. Damage to the nephrons from unused glucose in the blood is called diabetic kidney disease.
High blood pressure plays a major role in the rapid progression of kidney problems in people with diabetes. High blood pressure can damage the small blood vessels in the kidneys. The damaged vessels are thus unable to filter wastes from the blood properly.
People whose kidney disease becomes worse may need to urinate more often or less often, feel tired, lose their appetite or experience nausea and vomiting, have swelling in their hands or feet, feel itchy or numb, get drowsy or have trouble concentrating, have darkened skin and have muscle cramps. Serious health problems occur when people have less than 25 per cent of their kidney function.
Dialysis is not the curative procedure for chronic renal failure but instead it keeps a person alive by performing the crucial functions of the kidneys. Homeopathy on the other hand offers by the grace of Allah a complete healing system that can bring relief to the most troublesome renal disease.
Homeopathy works exceptionally well in the kidney diseases when administered wisely. It stimulates one�s immune system, which in turn repairs the damaged kidneys. Patient�s kidney-function starts improving under the homeopathic treatment. And as the kidneys start working properly the bio-chemistry becomes normal naturally.
Homeopathy works silently and goes deep into your immune system. And not only repairs the damaged kidneys but helps in maintaining the blood sugar and blood pressure to a normal level as well.
The writer also had the opportunity by the blessings of God to treat many patients suffering from different types of kidney diseases. I remember a young man who was having dialysis regularly when he started the homeopathic treatment. After a month when he went for the dialysis his routine blood tests showed that his urea and cretinine levels were absolutely normal. He was sent back by the doctors informing him that he did not need dialysis anymore. Imagine the happiness and excitement of the parents who were trying to find a donor to save the life of their son. Such pleasant memories give deep satisfaction to a physician.
Dr. Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
dr_asghar_shah@yahoo.com
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