Your kidneys filter your blood by removing toxins from your body and send toxins to your bladder. This way, your body later removes toxins through urination process. Most of the people lose 90% of their functioning ability of the kidney before getting any symptoms. If these symptoms are related to kidney disease they may gradually worsen as kidney function declines. High levels of protein in your urine suggest that you are suffering from kidney disease. People suffering with kidney disease tend not to experience symptoms until the very late stages. So, it is important to know the symptoms and signs related to kidney diseases.
- Fatigue Being Tired All The Time
Healthy kidneys make a hormone that tells your body to make oxygen-carrying red blood cells. As the kidneys fail, they make less of this hormone. With fewer red blood cells to carry oxygen, your muscles and brain get tired very quickly. It is due to a build-up of wastes or shortage of red blood cells that can cause these problems when the kidneys begin to fail and can cause people to feel tired, weak and can make it hard to concentrate.
- Urinating More Often
Kidneys make urine, so when the kidneys are failing, the urine may change. Either you may urinate more, or in greater amounts or you may feel pressure during urinating. Changes in urination including making urine than usual. In some cases, you can spot changes in the color of urine, foamy or bubbly urine, or having to get up at night to urinate.
- Swelling in Hands or Feet
Decreased kidney function can lead to sodium retention, causing swelling of the feet, ankles, hands, or face due to fluid the kidneys can’t remove which may stay in the tissues. Failing kidneys don’t remove extra fluid, which causes swelling in the legs, ankles, feet, and/or hands.
- Shortness of Breath
Extra fluid in the body can build up in the lungs. Kidney failure is confused with asthma or heart failure sometimes. Symptoms of kidney failure that can be caused by a build-up of fluid in the body include swelling in the face, feet or hands or shortness of breath from fluid in the lungs.
