"Hi! Doc. my mum is 80 years old. She is diaynosed with chronic kidney failure. Should she or should she not go for homeodialysis? Please advise.TQ.If not going for homeodialysis what other medications is available."
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Hi I am a nephrologist that has recently started blogging on kidney disease for my patients. My idea is really simple review the articles published daily in journals daily and try and translate it…Continue
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Francis G Chang replied to Roger Smith's discussion All Kidney News"Hello Doctor, I have a kidney stone, and dont know what type of stone it is, however its been with me for too long. The first time I knew I have it was like 9 years ago, and just until last year I had a very excruciating pain on my flank area, and I…"
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steven otto white replied to Roger Smith's discussion All Kidney News"hi i hava a question for you,,, calculating G.F.R. One kidney apposed to, Two kidney"s ?
I think there"s a big diffrence,"
Robert Su left a comment for Roger Smith"Dear Fellow Member:
According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 24 million Americans have DM, and about 6 millions of them are not aware that they are diabetics. By the time when they are diagnosed with DM for abnormal…"
Roger Smith replied to Roger Smith's discussion All Kidney News"What i would do is take the bicarbonate only if my serum bicarbonate level was between 16 to 20 meq/l
then start at 600 mg of bicarbonate so you need to know what formulation you are using. Increasing the dose until bicarbonate in the serum reaches…"
Doris LaMelle replied to Roger Smith's discussion All Kidney News"Yes, I heard that adding bicarbonate of soda capsules to a daily regime would slow down acute kidney disease. Is that true.? If so, how many capsules would be advisable for a 270lb. male?"
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Hi I am a nephrologist that has recently started blogging on kidney disease for my patients. My idea is really simple review the articles published daily in journals daily and try and translate it into easily understood language and add some of my personal opinions on the matter. Education and empowerment is the aim. What I would like from is this..Are there any burning issues that you would like to know about when it comes to kidney disease? I want to tailor my posts to what the general…See More
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- At 4:59pm on December 3, 2009, Robert Su said…
- Dear Fellow Member:
According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 24 million Americans have DM, and about 6 millions of them are not aware that they are diabetics. By the time when they are diagnosed with DM for abnormal blood glucose tests, they have likely had other ongoing pathological changes inside their bodies such as cataracts, retinopathy, arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease and stroke, arthritis and fibromyalgia (fibromyositis), cancer(s), even neurodegenerative changes such as Alzheimer’s disease, just to name a few.
DM only represents a stage of a disease, daily repeated hyperglycemia, when about 50% of the pancreatic beta cells are destroyed by inflammation, which is a result of excessive consumption of carbohydrates. The pathological changes are progressive and accumulative, unless the individual mindfully reduces the consumption of carbohydrates. Thus, simply waiting for a diagnosis with DM has no value in preventive medicine, is passive and unacceptable.
For preventing and managing DM, I need your help by doing the followings. Please view my videos and understand why DM is not necessarily a genetic disease. Visit your group(s) frequently or join them at Talk Medical, The Diabetic Challenge, and Onco'Zone. Also follow my weekly blogs at “What’s New, Doc?” Lastly, please forward my message to your family members and friends on your network.
Let us join together in removing DM and many other diseases from our life! Thank you.
Sincerely,
Robert Su, Pharm.B., M.D.
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