can kidney disease or chronic failure go unnoticed?hypothetically, if someone had either kidney disease or chronic kidney failure
is it possible for there to be little to no syptoms for the beginning or maybe after it has progressed a bit (obviously there would have to be symptoms eventually)
like is it possible to go in for physical (feeling relatively healthy, maybe with a few small things) and eventually learn u have a kidney problem with haveing no idea at all
or is it a thing that pretty obvious from the get go
this is hypothetical, i dont think this is my case im just curious
Posted by christine m
it can go unnoticed for awhile. You would be at under 50% of kidney function before it would turn up symptoms. I think its 30 or 25% renal function to show up the symptoms if I'm remembering my books right.
Posted by Nelly Jelly Welly Belly
books are all good.. but you can feel the symptons in advance. or you can feel the symptons MUCH later. i know people who have progressed so far without symptons that they were suddenly ill, taken to hospital and started on dialysis straight away. while with others, like me, i have had symptons since before 60ish% function.
Posted by louvre
Well yes and no as answerer number 2 stated. It is different for everyone. My son was born with it. It was only discovered though because he was already in the NICU with miconium aspiration. They drew blood for routine labs and discovered he only had 2O% function (later decreased to 12%) of his kidneys. He was not exhibiting signs (of course he was only a week old so it was a matter of time I suppose) If it had not been discovered early I'm sure he would have seemed very healthy for a while, then he would eventually show signs of the desease. ( he looked very healthy full term and 8lbs 8oz)
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