Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Prevention, Early Detection.

The first steps you need to take in order to prevent CKD are:

1. Reduce your salt intake as much as possible, salt contains sodium, always check for products that are level as a "low sodium", sodium contributes to water retention on our blood and this cause high blood pressure, which is one of the leaders on CKD.
2. Check your blood pressure regularly and ask your doctor what is the best parameter for you and keep it that way.
3. If you are diabetic, control your glucose level, high glucose level is another strong contributor to CKD. Avoid this habits: smoking, high sodium foods, fast foods (as much as possible) and sodas.

What can you do to early detect CKD? Unfortunately there are no symptoms for early CKD, the best way to find out about your kidneys condition is by urine and blood labs.
Ask your doctor for a blood lab you need to know what is your GFR or Glomerular Filtration Rate, this will tell you how much blood your kidneys are filtering a minute, 60 or higher GFR are the normal levels, below that you have CKD, unfortunately, you can not do anything to raise the GFR, but the good news is that you can do a lot to prevent to get lower.
Urine lab, you have to check your urine to discard the possibility that it contains protein, this due to poor filtration of the kidneys or CKD. That's right, there shouldn't be any traces of protein on your urine.