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Your Kidneys and caring for them while having Diabetes
Kidneys help clean waste products from your blood and help keep the right balance of salt and fluid in your body.
High glucose levels in your blood makes it hard for your kidneys. After a number of years, kidneys can stop working due to high blood glucose. This is called failure of the kidneys. If your kidneys stop working, you'll need dialysis or a kidney transplant. Dialysis means using a machine or special fluids to clean your blood.
Test your urine once a year for signs of kidney damage. This test is a measure of the protein level is in your urine. Blood pressure medication can help prevent kidney damage.
Other ways that help prevent kidney problems are:.
- See your doctor right away if you get a bladder or kidney infection. Signs of bladder or kidney infections are cloudy or bloody urine, pain or burning when you urinate, and having to urinate often or in a hurry. Back pain, chills, and fever are also signs of kidney infection.
- Take your medicine if you have high blood pressure.
- Ask your doctor or your dietitian whether you should eat less meat, cheese, milk, and fish or fewer eggs
- If you smoke, quit.
- Keep your blood glucose and blood pressure as close to normal as possible.
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