Yes!
One word that describes kidneys is "filter." Kidneys serve as essential organs in the body that filter waste and excess substances from the blood, maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
I don't think you can live with NO kidneys, but you can live without one. you need your kidneys to filter liquids, so no you DO need both of them to live
Usually, people have 2, unless they sell one of them...
This condition is known as hydronephrosis and can be caused by various factors such as kidney stones, tumors, or congenital abnormalities. It can lead to kidney damage and requires medical intervention to relieve the obstruction and prevent complications.
The kidneys are in charge of processing the body's blood. Think of it like a filter. Without working kidneys, one must be on dialysis which processes the blood through a machine. ---- The 3 jobs of the kidneys are, Removal of Urea Proteins can't be stored, so the liver turns them into fats and carbohydrates.The Urea is the posionous waste from this process.It's removed by the kidneys and comes out in the urine or sweat. Taking lons out of the blood Lon like sodium need removing if there are too many of them in the bloodstream. The kidneys do this. Water Regualtion The amount of water that enters the bladder is controlled by the kidneys.
The human body cannot create urine without kidneys. Without renal (kidney) function, a person will die in just a few days. The kidneys perform several functions in the body. One of these functions is to remove metabolic waste products from the blood. The kidneys secrete waste products in the form of urine, which is collected in the bladder until the person expels the urine from the body during urination (peeing). The only way to perform the same waste removal function from the blood without using the kidneys is to carry out a medical procedure called dialysis. In hemodialisis, the blood is removed from the body through a tube inserted into a vein. A pump regulates the rate of flow of blood removal, and pumps the blood through a filter that removes the metabolic byproducts. Then the filtered blood is returned to the body through a second tube inserted into another vein. Peritoneal dialysis is a rarer form of dialysis in which a sterile cleansing fluid is pumped into the abdominal cavity through a catheter. The fluid remains inside the abdomen for a set period of time while it collects the metabolic waste products through a process called osmosis. Once the fluid has absorbed sufficient metabolic byproducts, the tainted fluid is flushed out of the abdominal cavity using the same catheter.
A person can live with only one functioning kidney if the other is diseased or has been removed. But no one can live without both kidneys, unless he undergoes almost daily treatments on a special machine called a dialysis machine. This machine is attached to the body, and cleans the blood and removes the wastes, two of the jobs that the kidneys usually do.
People who have kidney failure, which is when 90% or more of the kidneys do not work, must be on dialysis. When kidneys fail the body cant cleanse the body of waste. The persons blood will become toxic and the person will die without dialysis or a kidney transplant. That's just with kidney failure. Of course you can live with only one kidney. Say you only had one kidney, that one kidney would have to be over 50% damaged before a person would possibly need to be on dialysis. To simply answer your question, you could have no problems with a damaged kidney, but failed kidneys will cause death.
Humans are extremely adaptable. Learning to function under adverse conditions is what has allowed the human race to flourish. We can live without a number of different body parts. For example we posses two kidneys, when one is sufficient. We only have one heart, and one liver though and we cannot live if we are missing those.
with out kidneys our kidneys filter the blood of the bad particles and excrete them as urine. without kidneys the blood would be dirty and our organs would be effected
Humans have two kidneys instead of one because having two kidneys allows for redundancy and backup in case one kidney becomes damaged or fails. This redundancy helps to ensure that the body can effectively filter waste and maintain proper fluid balance.
Humans are extremely adaptable. Learning to function under adverse conditions is what has allowed the human race to flourish. We can live without a number of different body parts. For example we posses two kidneys, when one is sufficient. We only have one heart, and one liver though and we cannot live if we are missing those.