Ziqitza Limited Rajasthan – Here’s how you can prevent yourself from Kidney Diseases.
                     Ziqitza Limited Rajasthan - Here's how you can 
prevent yourself from Kidney Diseases.
A healthy pair of kidneys in our body can be compared to a series of 
powerfully functional chemical factories. The amazing kidneys – 
they perform the life-sustaining job of filtration of body fluids and 
returning them to the bladders. Kidneys secrete and actively retain 
within the body, certain substances that are as critical to survival as 
those that are eliminated. Hence it’s vital not to put any strain on 
the kidneys and to keep them healthy in our day-to-day living.
Kidney diseases include acute Infections, chronic infections, kidney 
stones, CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease), and birth defects. Kidney 
damage can occur due to drugs, poisons, uncontrolled diabetes, 
uncontrolled high blood pressure, prolonged obstruction of the 
urinary tract (due to stones, tumour, or enlarged prostate), and 
repeated infections. CKD means a gradual loss of kidney function. 
Since the kidney has a lot of reserve function, patients do not have 
symptoms or very few symptoms until kidney function is 
significantly impaired. 
How can you take care of your kidneys?
Dr. Santosh Datar, Medical Director at Ziqitza Healthcare Ltd says 
while there are several ways to take care of your kidneys, leading a 
healthy lifestyle certainly tops the list. It also includes maintaining a 
healthy weight, eating a balanced diet, and exercising regularly. 
1. Drink an adequate amount of water
Drink enough water throughout the day to pass at least 1.5 
litres of urine. You should ideally aim to drink two and a half 
or three litres of water throughout the day.
2. Strictly monitor your protein intake
A lot of recent studies have shown that even if you are not suffering 
from any kidney disease but your protein intake is high, you can be 
at a higher risk of kidney damage. This is especially important for 
people who intake protein artificially (through protein powders and 
protein shakes) and end up consuming more than the required 
amount. As a rule of thumb, you may take 1 gram of protein per 
kilogram of your ideal body weight per day.
3. Don’t consume pain killers and OTC 
medications like candies
Owing to our increasingly hectic lifestyles, headaches, backaches 
and sprains have become quite a common occurrence. As a 
result, people tend to pop painkillers and over-the-counter 
medications without giving a second thought to the threat these 
medicines pose to their kidneys. This quest for “instant relief”, 
may lead to kidney damage if the heavy dosage of these 
painkillers and OTC medicines are taken continuously for two to 
three years. 
4. Keep your blood pressure under check
One of the most crucial aspects of preventing kidney disease is to 
strictly monitor your blood pressure. It is important to understand 
that uncontrolled high blood pressure can cause arteries around 
the kidneys to narrow, weaken or harden over time.
5. Monitor your blood sugar levels regularly
Over the years at Ziqitza Limited Rajasthan we have noted that 
one of the key reasons for the usage of ambulances has been 
for people suffering from kidney disease and are undergoing 
long-term treatment. We at Ziqitza Limited believe it is crucial 
that prevention of Kidney disease should become an 
important goal for the medical fraternity and public at large to 
encourage its detection and treatment that help saves more 
life.
Our doctors at ZHL suggest two simple tests which can be 
conducted to monitor kidney disease:
 Blood test
A simple blood test can help you monitor the Creatinine level in 
your blood. Since it is one of the substances that your kidney 
routinely filters out, high levels of the same in the blood may 
indicate that your kidneys are not functionally the way they 
should.
Urine test
This test is done to determine whether or not you have a protein 
called Albumin in your urine. Since protein should be present in 
your blood and not in the urine, traces of Albumin in the urine 
may indicate that your kidney is not able to filter the blood 
properly