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A physician is concerned that his patients kidneys are not working well. What tests might he order to test his hypothesis?
BUN, creatine, GFR
What will happen to your cells if you drink salt water?
Drinking excessive amounts of salt water can damage the kidneys. It can also cause high blood pressure. Drinking too much salt water can have a dehydrating effect.
What makes a freezer stop working?
damage to the heat pump
What does a GFR of 49 mean?
The eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate) is a number based on your blood test for creatinine. It tells how well your kidneys are working
What can go wrong if melanocyte isnt working?
Melanocytes have absolutely nothing to do with your lungs. Melanocytes determine skin pigmentation. If they stop working your skin essentially gets lighter or white in the areas where the cells die or stop working.
What happens to your kidneys if you are dehydrated?
I think they stop working propaly but I don't think it killes you
What happens to the lungs if the kidneys stop working?
The kidneys do not effect your lungs even if they don't work. However, you'll die shortly after your kidneys fail.
What happens if the pancreas and kidneys stop working at the same time?
RIP, Amem.
How does a kidney stone stop the body from working properly?
It blocks the pathways for the urine and blood to get to the kidneys......
What is renal failer?
Renal failure is when your kidneys stop working, usually through disease. The kidneys remove waste products from your blood and pass them on to the bladder as urine. If kidneys stop working, the blood fills up with waste products, which in large quantities are poisonous. You can die from kidney failure unless you do something to clean your blood. The way you can clean your blood if your kidneys have failed is to use a Dialysis machine,which filters blood and does the same work as kidneys.
Why is it important that the kidneys return water to the blood?
Your body is primarily made up of water and without the return of it from your kidneys you would become dehydrated.
Why we would drink water?
We drink water to avoid becoming dehydrated, which, in severe cases, could cause our internal organs to stop working.
How do you stop dehydration?
Well first dehydrated what? Second, dehydrated just means lack of water, so if you add/drink plenty of water then you won't become dehydrated.
Why does your lower back or kidney region hurt when you are dehydrated?
It is because your kidneys are trying to remove the waste products from your blood but as the blood is quite thick from the dehydration the kidneys are having to work extra hard.
What does blood represents?
how well the kidneys are working.
How are is the liver and the kidneys alike and diffrent and what happens if one of them decide to go strike?
If either of your liver or your kidneys were to stop working it would be very serious. With the loss of one or both of them you would have only a short time to live, days or weeks.
What role of kidneys does a dialysis machine carry out?
Dialysis is used to filter impurities out of the blood when the kidneys are not working.
