What is a kidney and it's function? What is Chronic Kidney Disease?

We have two kidneys and each of them is about the size of a baseball, our kidney's function is to filter wastes and excess water out of your blood in the form of urine, another functions are to maintain a chemical balance within our body, also they control our blood pressure and create hormones.
 Healthy kidneys are crucial to keep a good life, unfortunately, due to several factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and the excessive use of pain killers, smoking and drugs can lead to Chronic Kidney Disease or CKD.
CKD means that the kidneys are no longer filtering your blood properly, therefore, waste and water start to build up on your body and if no treatment is receive, this may lead to death.

Note that CKD can be treated with different types of medications, but if no treatment is receive, this can develop on a kidney failure and at this stage, there are only two solutions to stay alive, Dialysis and Transplant. There is absolutely no reason why you should get CKD or Kidney Failure, please learn about what you can do to prevent CKD, early detection and learn more about the different treatments. We will discuss all of these information on this blog.