your kidneys stop working as they normally would to filter and clean your blood. This can cause harmful toxins and fluid to build up in your body. AKI is sometimes called acute kidney failure (AKF) or acute renal failure (ARF). When you need dialysis to treat your AKI, you may...
The kidneys also produce certain hormones that are instrumental to our wellbeing, and they also regulate our electrolyte levels by passing excesses out through urine. What Happens When They Break: When your kidneys fail, all the toxins that they are responsible for removing can start ...
Uric acid is a waste product produced in the body that is mostly eliminated by the kidneys through urine. A high uric acid level may occur when your kidneys don't eliminate uric acid efficiently. This may be seen in individuals who consume foods rich in uric acid, have too muchalcohol, a...
What happens if Peyronie's disease is left untreated? In some cases, Peyronie's disease may go away on its own even without treatment. In most cases, it stabilizes, so the curvature doesn't get worse, and your pain improves. If you're not having a lot of pain or trouble having sex,...
If you start wetting the bed as an adult, see your doctor. You may hear them call your problem nocturnal enuresis, which is the medical name of the condition. Some of the reasons it may be happening to you: Your kidneys make more pee than normal.A hormone called ADH tells yourkidneysto...
Fifty of the 30,000 were drafted, but only 25 played a game (as it happens, even this number was unusually high – it was a good year.) If you look at the number of players who had something close to what could be called a “career” – which, in this study, meant players ...
bilirubin in your blood. Bilirubin is a yellow substance found in red blood cells. It is released when the body breaks down old red blood cells. Bilirubin usually leaves the body through bowel movements. Jaundice happens because your body breaks down cells correctly, but it cannot remove the ...
Since ammonia is toxic to your body, you need a way to remove it. That happens partly in the liver, where the ammonia is broken down into the less-toxic chemical, urea. Urea then combines with water and gets flushed into your bladder through the kidneys as urine, protecting your body fr...
Breaking the Cycle: The Power of Purposeful Activities in Recovery from Substance Abuse From Addiction to Passion: How New Hobbies Can Help Replace Substance Abuse 4 reasons why relapse occurs after addiction recovery Tips to remain sober after addiction recovery ...
Although the toxicity of nanoparticles on the reproductive organs of the fetus has also been studied in a number of studies, the mechanisms at work in this case are very different from what happens in adults and will not be the subject of this review [32,33,34]. Two authors searched the...