Kidney failure, also known as renal failure, is a serious medical condition in which the kidneys are unable to filter waste products from the blood. This can lead to a buildup of toxins and other harmful substances in the body, which can cause a wide range of health problems. There are several different types and stages of kidney failure, each with its own unique set of symptoms and treatment options. In this article, we will discuss the various types and stages of kidney failure, as well as the available treatments for each stage. We will also explore the role of homeopathic treatment in managing kidney failure.
Types of Kidney Failure:
There are two main types of kidney failure: acute kidney failure and chronic kidney failure.
Acute Kidney Failure: This type of kidney failure occurs suddenly, often as a result of a medical emergency such as a heart attack, severe infection, or drug overdose. Acute kidney failure can also occur due to a sudden injury to the kidneys, such as a blow to the back or abdomen. Symptoms of acute kidney failure may include decreased urine output, fluid retention, fatigue, and confusion.
Chronic Kidney Failure: This type of kidney failure develops slowly over a period of months or years. It is often caused by underlying health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or glomerulonephritis. Symptoms of chronic kidney failure may include fatigue, swelling in the hands and feet, frequent urination, and difficulty concentrating.
Stages of Kidney Failure:
Both acute and chronic kidney failure can be divided into several stages, each with its own unique set of symptoms and treatment options.
Stage 1: In this stage, kidney function is only slightly reduced, and there may be few or no symptoms.
Stage 2: Kidney function is moderately reduced in this stage, and symptoms may begin to appear, such as fatigue, swelling in the legs, and frequent urination.
Stage 3: In this stage, kidney function is significantly reduced, and symptoms become more severe. These may include nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, and difficulty sleeping.
Stage 4: Kidney function is severely reduced in this stage, and patients may experience symptoms such as anemia, muscle cramps, and confusion.
Stage 5: Also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), this is the most advanced stage of kidney failure. In this stage, the kidneys are no longer able to function properly, and patients may require dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive.
Treatments for Kidney Failure:
The treatment options for kidney failure depend on the type and stage of the condition, as well as the underlying cause. Some of the most common treatments include:
Medications: Medications may be used to control symptoms and slow the progression of kidney failure. These may include blood pressure medications, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and medications to control blood sugar levels.
Dialysis: Dialysis is a medical procedure that uses a machine to filter waste products from the blood. There are two main types of dialysis: hemodialysis, which involves using an artificial kidney machine, and peritoneal dialysis, which involves using the lining of the abdomen to filter waste.
Kidney Transplant: A kidney transplant involves replacing a diseased kidney with a healthy one from a donor. This is often the best option for patients with end-stage renal disease.
Homeopathic Treatment of Kidney Failure:
Homeopathic treatment involves using highly diluted substances to stimulate the body’s natural healing processes. There are several homeopathic remedies that may be used to manage the symptoms of kidney failure.
• Agonising Fear Of Death; yet tired of living, agg. night.
• Fear; of death, from starvation; of financial loss.
• Violence; self torture, pulls her hair, bites her nails, tears his own body.
• Suicidal; impulses, mania.
• Restless, changes place continually, wants to go from one bed to other; children are capricious, want to be carried; want to go from father to mother, to nurse.
• Melancholy.
• Sees vermin; throws away bugs by handfuls.
– Suspicious.
• Fear of being left alone, lest he do himself bodily harm.
• Fears he has murdered somebody.
• Miserly, malicious, selfish.
• Lacks courage.
• Irritable; increasingly.
• Sensitive to disorder.
• Delirium tremens.
• Dotage.
• Fixed ideas, hallucinations.
• Imagines house full of thieves; jumps and hides.
• Hasty.
• Sees ghosts day and night.
• Groans, moans and weeps, during menses.
• Her desire exceeds her needs.
• Does not want to meet his acquaintances, thinks he has offended them.
Head
• Ache, congestive amel. cold.
• Restless head, it is in constant motion.
• Pain over left eye.
• Hemicrania, with icy feeling.
• Vertigo; with loss of consciousness, during coughing fits, in asthmatics, before epilepsy.
• Scalp very sensitive; can not brush hair.
• Hair become gray early; falling of hair.
• Dandruff.
• Chronic eruptions filled with pus.
• Pain alternates between head or stomach or body agg. by people’s talk.
• Walks with head thrown backwards.
Eyes
• Sunken or protruding.
• Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation.
• Oedema around eyes.
• Intense photophobia.
• Lids granulated.
• Spasms of the eye lids.
• Everything appears green; sees as through a white gauze.
• Conjunctiva; injected; yellow.
• Scrophulous ophthalmia.
• Eyelids red and ulcerated.
• Falling of lashes.
• Eye lids oedematous.
Ears
• Thin, offensive, excoriating discharge.
• Roaring in ears, during pain.
• Hard hearing, to human voice.
Nose
• Thin, watery, excoriating discharge.
• Nose feels stopped up, with fluent coryza.
• Nose colds descend to chest.
• Cold sores; in nose.
• Sneezing, without relief.
– Can not bear the sight or smell of food.
• Hay fever.
• Knotty swelling of the nose.
• Nose pointed.
• Acne of nose.
• Nose bleed, after fit of passion or vomiting.
• Dyspnoea felt in nose.
• Sneezing, with biting watery coryza.
Face
• Pale; anxious, sunken, haggard or distorted, hippocratic, covered with cold sweat.
• Old look; in children.
• Oedematous swelling of face.
• Burning, stinging pains as from red hot needles.
• Pressive, stitching pain in ovary, into the thigh, which feels numb and lame agg. motion or bending.
• Menorrhagia, with black blood.
• Burning in mammae amel. motion.
• Increased sexual desire at menses.
-;Menses suppressed, in weak, tired careworn women.
• Stitching in rectum during menses.
• Dysmenorrhoea amel. heat.
Respiratory
• SHORTNESS OF BREATH; unable to lie down, must sit up; agg. odours, laughing, ascending, turning in bed, or receding eruptions, amel. coffee or sweet water.
• Whistling, wheezing breathing.
• Asthma, agg. taking cold, in mid summer.
• Cough alternating dry and loose, dry at night amel. sitting up agg. drinking.
• Expectoration scanty, frothy.
• Great dyspnoea; in nose; face cyanotic, covered with cold sweat, great anxiety.
• Aphonia.
• Emphysema.
• Pulmonary oedema.
• Burning or coldness in chest.
• Cough excited by smoking.
• Sensation as of vapours of sulphur in larynx.
• Cough, with bloody sputum.
• Haemoptysis; burning all over or with pain between scapulae; in drunkards; suppressed menses.
• Gangrene of the lungs.
• Darting pain through upper third of the right lung.
• Yellowish spots on chest.
Heart
• Weak, trembles.
• Palpitation, with anguish agg. lying on back, ascending stairs, with slight causes.
• Heart pains into neck and occiput, with anxiety, difficult breathing, fainting spells.
• Angina Pectoris.
• Pulse more rapid in the morning.
• Hydro-pericardium.
• Palpitation, with tremulous weakness after stools.
• Beats audible.
• Visible pulsations.
Neck and back
• Stiffness of the back ascends from coccyx to nape.
• Cold creeps on back.
• As if warm air streaming up spine to the head.
• Bruised pain in small of back.
• Weak lumbar region.
Extremities
• Twitching, trembling, violent starting, during sleep.
• Drawing pain from elbow to axilla.
• Weariness of limbs.
• Trembling of hands, of limbs.
• Tingling in fingers.
• Fingers can not be extended.
• Nails; blue, discoloured.
• Ulcers on finger tips, with burning pain.
• Feet; weak, weary and numbb, oedematous.
• Ulcers on soles and toes.
• Wooden feeling in soles.
• Sore pain in ball of toes, while walking.
• Uneasiness in lower limbs, must move feet constantly or walk about.
• Toes bend downwards.
• Peripheral neuritis.
• Cramps in calves.
• Swelling of feet.
• Limbs heavy.
• Restless feet.
• Sciatica amel. walking and hot applications.
• Paraplegia, with atrophy.
• Paralysis, with contraction of limbs.
Skin
• Dry, rough, scaly, dirty, shrivelled.
• Looks seared.
• Eczema.
• Acuminate eruptions.
• Free desquamation.
• Hives agg. eating shell fish.
• Ulcers; chronic, with burning, with cutting pain and bloody discharge.
• Gangrene.
• Phagedena.
• Carbuncles.
• Psoriasis.
• Skin, like parchment.
• Skin symptoms alternate with internal affections.
• Spots; blue, black, white.
• Pimples, vesicles, burning violently.
Sleep
• Disturbed, anxious, restless.
• Shocks on dropping to sleep.
• Dreams; of death, full of care, sorrow, and fear.
• Sleeps with hands over head.
• Yawning, with stretching of limbs.
• Sleeping sickness.
• Talks in sleep.
• Awakened by pains.
Fever
• Externally COLD, with internal burning heat.
• COLDNESS; in spots.
• Sensitive to cold, yet amel. in open air.
• Chills irregular, shaking; craves hot drinks during chill; dyspnoea during chill.
• Heat as of hot water in veins; or they burn like lines of fire.
• High fever, hectic fever.
• Sweat, with great thirst, dyspnoea or exhaustion.
• Sweat cold.
• Waves of icy coldness in blood vessels or intense boiling heat.
• It corresponds to many diseased conditions to which a modern man is prone to.
• It is useful to those persons who lead a sedentary life, doing much mental work; or to those who remain under stress and strain of prolonged office work, business cares and worries.
• Such persons in order to forget their worries are apt to indulge in wine, women, rich stimulan t food and sedative drugs; and ill effects from which they are apt to suffer.
• The typical Nux. patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable.
• It affects the nerves, causing hyper-sensitiveness, and over-impressionability, mentally and physically.
• Produces Digestive Disturbances; partial congestion and hypochondriacal states.
• Dyspeptic persons who always select their food for experimenting, that is digested little.
• He is subject to spasms, convulsions, and fainting.
• The patient seems to be always out of tune; The Action is Violent, often irregularly fitful or inefficient.
• Twisting, and jerks.
• Spasms, tetanic, with consciousness; agg. by slightest touch, but amel. by grasping tightly, or when elbow was stretched.
• Tense contracted felling.
• Lightning-like pains.
• Neuralgia; prodromal.
• Sensation as of a rough body internally.
• Sensation of heaviness and lightness alternately.
• Bruised soreness; Of Abdomen, brain etc.
• Internal scrapy sensation or Rawness; in throat, larynx.
– Takes cold.
– Faintings, after stools, vomiting; after labour pains etc.
• Biliousness.
• Haemorrhages.
• Debauches; much drugged patients.
• Trembling.
• Epilepsy during stool.
• Paralysis from apoplexy, in high livers; partial, with vertigo and nausea; with sticking pains.
• Reflexes increased.
• Firm fibered brunettes.
• Reversed peristalsis.
• Ill effects; of masturbation, sexual excess.
• Varicose veins, without tortuosity, black hard cords; from much standing, or from sedentary habits.
Worse
• Early Morning.
• Gold; Open Air (dry); drafts; seats; wind.
• Uncovering.
• High Living; coffee; condiments, liquor, drugs, purgatives, over eating.
• Sedentary habits.
• Debauchery.
• Mental; exertion; fatigue vexation.
• Disturbed sleep.
• Slight causes; anger; noise; odours; touch; Pressure; of clothes at waist.
• Yawning.
• Tobacco.
• Music.
• Disappointment of ambition.
• Wounded honour.
• Mental shock.
Better
• Free Discharges.
• Naps.
• Wrapping head.
– Resting.
• Hot drinks.
• Milk.
• Fats.
• Moist air.
• Lying on sides.
Mind
• Active.
• Angry and Impatient; can not stand pain; so mad, he cries.
• Zealous; fiery temperament.
• Nervous and excitable.
• Aversion to work.
• Fears poverty.
• Sullen.
• Spiteful.
• Nagging.
• Violent.
• Ugly; suicidal, homicidal impulses.
• Fear of knives, lest she should kill herself or others.
• Fault finding.
• Reproaches others.
• Frightfully apprehensive about getting married, (girls).
• Time passes too slowly.
• Talks about one’s condition.
• Even the least ailment affects her greatly.
• Hypochondriasis.
• Melancholia.
• Delirium tremens.
• Can not bear noise, light, odour, touch, music, etc.
• Can not bear conversation or reading.
• Angry when consoled.
• Head-strong, self-willed.
Head
• Vertigo; brain and other objects turn in circle; with momentary loss of consciousness; with black spell; on empty stomach.
• Bruised sensation of the brain.
• Dizzy and faint in a crowd or where many lights are burning.
• Headache in the sunshine.
• Sensitive scalp.
• Swelled forehead.
• Head seems larger than body.
• Takes cold amel. wrapping head warmly.
• Migraine.
• Frontal head ache with desire to lean it on something.
Eyes
• Bloodshot.
• Lachrymation from affected side.
• Atrophy of the optic nerve.
• Photophobia.
• Paresis of ocular muscles.
• Lower eyeballs yellow.
• Loss of vision due to alcohol and tobacco.
• Exudation of blood from eyes.
• Spring conjunctivitis.
Ears
• Itching in ear through Eustachian tubes.
• External meatus dry and sensitive.
• Pain; stitching when swallowing.
• Loud sounds are painful.
Nose
• Oversensitive to strong odours; even fainting.
• Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side.
• Snuffles; of the new born.
• Nose bleed during sleep; from suppressed flow of piles, from coughing.
• Sneezing violent, abortive; from intense crawling in nostrils (left).
– Coryza, fluent by day, and in open air, dry at night.
• Smell before nose, like old cheese, burning sulphur.
• Smell acute.
• Nose looks sharp and pointed.
Face
• Red, turgid or yellowish agg. about nose and mouth.
• Left angle of the mouth drops.
• Infra-orbital neuralgia; with swelling of cheek, intermittent; amel. when lying in bed.
– Jaws, snap shut; stiff.
• Acne from eating cheese.
• Pimples from excessive use of liquors.
• Child passes its hand constantly over face (brain disease).
Mouth
• Teeth chatter.
• Toothache amel. warm drinks.
• Foetor oris; sour.
• Small aphthous ulcers in the mouth.
• TASTE; BITTER; sour, bad in a.m. low down in throat.
• Itching palate; eustachian tube.
• Gums; swollen white, and bleeding.
• Needles at edges of tongue agg. after eating; washing face in cold water.
Throat
• Rough, raw; as if scraped.
• Putrid taste in; on coughing.
• Small ulcers in the throat; pain agg. during empty swallowing.
Dr Riffat Nawab Musab 