Well a lot of things we consume this days are capable of making someone down with kidney failure.
Today in society people who suffers from kidney problem still have chances of living for a longer period of time due to the level of advancement science has gotten into.
Kidney can now be transferred from one person to another to help sustain and maintain a healthy living.
In today's article, I will be talking about kidney transplant, how far it have gotten. The pros and cons behind kidney transplant and it's immunocompromised effect on human.
Kidney transplant like we all know is a transplant that happens between two individual of the same species. Though some animal tissue or organ can also be transplanted.
Kidney transplant from one individual of the same species to the other is termed allograft. Also in a situation whereby animal organ are being transplanted is called xenograft.
Kidney transplant has contributed to the major reason why people who are diagnosed with kidney failure are still living till today. Though there are a lot of disadvantage associated with kidney transplantation which we don't know about. Firstly let us begin by knowing what kidney transplant is.
what is kidney transplant
This is a surgery done to transfer kidney from a deceased or living individual to a patient whose kidney is no longer functioning properly.
This is usually done when the kidney has reached its end stage renal disease. At this stage the kidney filtration rate has gone down below 15 percent. Which simply means that the kidney can no longer be able to perform any function on its own.
At this point, there are massive build up of waste product in the body. The kidney cannot be able to eliminate those waste due to its inability to work effectively. When this happens it simply means that the body needs a way of getting rid of the waste. Getting rid of the waste can only be possible with two methods. These includes undergoing dialysis or by kidney transplant.
Kidney dialysis simply means a temporal way of sustaining humans life. This method is usually done when a kidney donor has not been gotten. It requires the use of a machine termed artificial kidney in replacement of the the main kidney to filter the waste product stored by the body. This machine does exactly the work of a normal kidney.
The only problem about using dialysis machine is it high cost. Every patients who has kidney failure are expected to undergo dialysis at least three times in a week for a life time.
Because of this, kidney transplant is more preferable than undergoing dialysis.
advantages of kidney transplant over dialysis
Though both kidney transplant and kidney dialysis have advantages and disadvantages. There are still major reasons why kidney transplant is more better and preferable than dialysis.
¶ kidney dialysis demands that the patient undergoing this must be visiting hospital at least 3 times in a week. But in transplant it gives you more time to go about your businesses.
¶ secondly, it has also been confirmed that people whose kidney were transplanted successfully lives more longer than those who undergoes dialysis.
¶ people who has undergone kidney transplant has little or no diet and fluid restriction unlike those who is undergoing dialysis.
pros and cons of kidney transplant
pros
Today,it has been confirmed that people who received kidney have a better chances of living longer on like those undergoing dialysis.
Kidney transplant gives a patient chances of exploring a new life by having little or no diet restrictions. It also increases the energy level of an individual enabling an effective function of his sex life and increases its fertility.
cons
Kidney transplant is a welcome scientific advancements that has helped in saving a lot of souls till today. Though is quite a good development but still have its own side effect.
Kidney transplant like we all know is a transplant from a particular individual to the other. This is to show that the kidney that is being giving is actually coming from a different individual all together.
One thing we must understand is this. Anything be it tissue, organ or any part of the body transferred from one person to the other has a lot of disadvantage.
Our immune system is built in such a way that anything that enters inside a persons body without taking measures of bringing down the immune system must be rejected.
Our body immune system is designed to recognize between self and non self.
Do you know that patient who received kidney from an individual are bound to be taking drugs on daily bases. This drugs is termed immunosuppressant.
Immunosuppressant is a drug designed to suppress our immune system. The work of this drug is to bring down the level of an individuals immune system therefore making them weak in fighting against any foreign body. This drug is specifically designed for people whose immunity is hyper active, And therefore making their immune system less effective.
This drug is giving to those who had a kidney transplant. This is to prevent the body immune system from fighting against the transplanted kidney.
Though this drug is very much helpful in those that have kidney issues but it can also be detrimental to other parts of the body.
It is also known that a person whose immune system is being suppressed can be termed an immunocompromised patient.
Reason being that, the persons immune system is no longer strong to fight against any foreign pathogens that might try invading the body.
When this happens, many diseases are bound to invade the body therefore leading to a serious infection which if care is not taken may lead to death.
conclusion
Haven gone through this article, there are things which we need to understand. Kidney transplant is very important to anyone who is having kidney problem. But that does not make your problem to be solved.
People living with transplanted kidney are still passing through a lot despite the kidney transplant.
It simply means that immunosuppressant medication is always needed to sustain the life of the person. This immunosuppressants is also a disadvantage as it can lead to other damages in the body.
Finally, I will like to end it by saying that, we all need to abstain from any thing that could possibly lead to kidney failure to avoid suffering from this disease.
Let us maintain a healthy kidney by taking water consistently.
Thank you all