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What human organs filter blood?
Your spleen:- acts as a filter for your blood, cleansing it of bacteria, viruses and other debris. The Liver:- gets rid of toxins, to regulate your blood sugar levels and to produce bile. Kidneys :- To make urine from waste products and excess water found in your blood. Pancreas:- Secreting digestive enzymes and hormones that control blood sugar levels
Why does our body remove water and salts from the blood?
When we consume sugar, our bodies manufacture insulin in order to take the sugar out of our blood. If we eat too much sugar, it is turned into fat.
What happens when blood sugar stays in the 300 to high 400?
Long term elevated blood sugar will lead to organ damage and/or organ failure. The organs that are usually damaged first are the eyes and kidneys. The eye because eye pressure is effected (osmosis) and the kidneys because they filter the blood. The kidneys become overworked trying to remove the excessive glucose from the blood.
Can you get renal failure from being a diabetic?
Diabetes Mellitus can cause renal failure; High blood sugar can overwork the kidneys, which over time damage them. After many years, they start to leak small amounts of protein (albumin) into the urine, which indicates that the kidneys are damaged. In stage two of the disease, damage to the kidneys has progressed to a level that causes problems throughout the body. One such problem is an increase in the amount of waste products in the blood such as urea, creatinine, and phosphate. Other effects of chronic renal failure include anemia, bone disease, acidosis, and salt and fluid retention.
Are the pancreas and kidneys the same thing?
NO THE KIDNEYS CLEAN OUT THE BLOOD AND THE PANCREAS HELP PRODUCE INSULIN FOR THE BODY TO CREATE SUGARS AND KEEP A NORMAL BLOOD SUGAR
What do kidney's do?
The kidneys are bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist. They are located near the middle of the back, just below the rib cage, one on each side of the spine. The kidneys are sophisticated reprocessing machines. Every day, a person's kidneys process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water. The wastes and extra water become urine, which flows to the bladder through tubes called ureters. The bladder stores urine until releasing it through urination.Wastes in the blood come from the normal breakdown of active tissues, such as muscles, and from food. The body uses food for energy and self-repairs. After the body has taken what it needs from food, wastes are sent to the blood. If the kidneys did not remove them, these wastes would build up in the blood and damage the body. The actual removal of wastes occurs in tiny units inside the kidneys called nephrons. Each kidney has about a million nephrons. In the nephron, a glomerulus-which is a tiny blood vessel, or capillary-intertwines with a tiny urine-collecting tube called a tubule. The glomerulus acts as a filtering unit, or sieve, and keeps normal proteins and cells in the bloodstream, allowing extra fluid and wastes to pass through. A complicated chemical exchange takes place, as waste materials and water leave the blood and enter the urinary system.
Do the kidneys keep the body from losing too much water sugar and salt?
Kidneys both retain and remove everything carried by the blood, depending on current concentration, generally filtering out chemical components of cells (and cells themselves) as they reach a point of deterioration where they are no longer capable of performing the tasks for which they are intended. Another major factor in proper kidney function fluid intake because that directly impacts blood pressure, which has great implications on how kidneys filter (or fail to filter) components of the blood.
What two organs are involved in regulating the blood sugar level in the body?
The pancreas and the kidneys
Can hyperglycemia lead to kidney failure?
Yes because of its ability to cause low blood pressure-------------------------------------Actually low blood pressure has nothing to do with it. High blood sugar damages the network of fine blood vessels found in the kidneys . It also causes the body to eliminate excess sugar throughurine, so the kidneys can become fatigued. Long periods of high blood sugar can lead to kidney damage that in turn may cause high blood pressure.
What type of red wine do you drink for your kidneys?
Any kind of red wine is fine - but a white wine would actually be better for your kidneys, as red wine has higher levels of sugar, therefore forcing your kidneys to work harder to filter it out.
What are four substances in the blood filtered by the kidneys?
amino acids,minerals,potassium and nitrogenous waste.
Why sugar does not appear normally in urine?
The nephrons (filtering units in the kidney) actively reabsorb glucose from the urine. Up until a blood sugar of about 200, there should normally be no glucose found in the urine. Glucose in the urine (also called glycosuria), can be seen in diabetes and other conditions that cause an increased blood glucose. There are also some conditions that prevent the nephron from reabsorbing glucose filtered in the kidney.
