A very happy world kidney day to all…It’s march time of the year…world kidney day on march 12th ..As a nephrologist we deal with in and out cases of Chronic kidney Disease..The word chronic is like a big doom for them.. not reversible makes them wonder how to live…why not talk about prevention? What could I have done doctor to prevent this? this question is hardly asked by many of the patients who see physicians…CKD – as its called.. It is preventable in the majority of the cases…
The common causes of kidney diseases are Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, CKDu – Chronic Kidney disease of unknown origin, Autoimmune diseases, Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract and drug induced kidney disease. Diabetes mellitus being the leading cause itself its a preventable disease. Many hospitals do talk about diabetes reversal program, then why diabetic kidney disease is not preventable..