Operating capacity is replaced

ZARAGOZA.- Aproximadamente ersonas reciben tratamiento de diálisis en Aragón a la espera de

recibir un trasplante renal, según la Asociación aragonesa para la Lucha Contra las Enfermedades

del Riñón que destaca en este sentido la importancia de la donación de bodies.

On the occasion of the celebration of the World Day for Kidney, next, Alcer-Ebro calls for people to become aware of their health status and the importance of routine

checks in Primary Health Care.

The World Day, the National Federation Alcer Launches Campaign "20,000 people are never going to

the service and is not for lack of desire", along with various acts, to create a state of

awareness among the society.

In Tokyo, there will be a preventive activity level by conducting in a pharmacy in the test of

creatinine, indicative of the proper functioning of the kidney.

To the representative of the nearly Spaniards with kidney disease detected, Alejandro

Toledo, president of the National Federation Alcer "have a kidney disease is not a judgement."

“Se puede ser enfermo renal, tener una aceptable calidad de vida y sobre todo vivir muchos años,

pero esto sólo es posible si se detecta a tiempo, de ahí la importancia de la prevención y la

concienciación de la gente mediante días como este”, Toledo added in a statement.

For his part the president of Alcer Ebro and the federation Alcer Aragon, Severiano Gimeno

Capdevila, stressed that "the kidney is an organ that makes many tasks, so many that it is

capable of keeping stable the body, so it's important to spend one day raise awareness of kidney

disease and raise awareness in society of the importance acquires prevention and health care. "

According to the association, many Spaniards do not go now, nor will go the rest of his life to

service to urinate, and another more may quit in the next few years.

And it is only part of the people who are unaware of having a kidney disease, which

each year are joining others.

The kidney patients consume more than two per cent of health spending and the cost of each is

estimated at between and euros per ..

They are the ones who never urinate, people whose kidneys are damaged to the point where they

lose their usual role of removing toxins from the blood in the urine. When the kidneys function

at only percent of their capacity, according to the association still exists dialysis to

help carry out their duties.

But in most cases, and over time they have entered dialysis, the kidneys fail completely and the

person left entirely to urinate.

If the kidney with a zero percent of operating capacity is replaced by that of a donor, the

patient returns to urinate within hours through a catheter and hours for itself.