Articles on Kidney Health
Each article below answers one question properly rather than covering everything at once. If you are starting from scratch, the complete kidney care guide is the better place to begin.
Early Signs of Kidney Disease Most People Miss
Early kidney disease usually causes no symptoms at all. Here are the quiet signs worth acting on, and the two blood and urine tests that actually detect it.
Covers: symptoms
Creatinine and eGFR: Reading Your Kidney Report
What creatinine and eGFR actually mean, how the five stages of chronic kidney disease are defined, and why a single reading is never the whole story.
Covers: tests and staging
Diabetes and Kidney Disease: What Indian Families Should Know
Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure in India. How the damage happens, why it often goes undetected for years, and what actually slows it down.
Covers: causes
Eating Well on Dialysis: A Tamil Nadu Kitchen Guide
Practical dialysis diet guidance built around food actually cooked in Tamil homes — rice, sambar, coconut, and filter coffee — rather than generic substitutions.
Covers: treatment: living with dialysis
Living Donor Kidney Transplant: The Law in India, Explained
Who may legally donate a kidney in India under THOTA, what the Authorisation Committee does, how swap donation works, and why no payment is ever lawful.
Covers: treatment: transplant, legal process
Registering as an Organ Donor in Tamil Nadu
How deceased organ donation works in Tamil Nadu through TRANSTAN and NOTTO, what a donor pledge does and does not do, and why the family conversation matters most.
Covers: donation and registry
How to Protect Your Kidneys: What Actually Works
Most kidney disease is preventable or can be slowed. The steps that genuinely help, and the products that do not.
Covers: prevention
Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis: The Two Options
The two ways dialysis replaces kidney function, how they differ, and how a decision between them is actually made.
Covers: treatment: dialysis options
Kidney Stones: Why They Hurt and How They Are Treated
What kidney stones are, the classic pain they cause, and the treatment and prevention that actually work in a hot climate.
Covers: symptoms: kidney stones
High Blood Pressure and Your Kidneys
High blood pressure damages the kidneys, and damaged kidneys raise blood pressure — a two-way relationship worth understanding.
Covers: causes: hypertension
Anemia and Kidney Disease: Why You Feel So Tired
Why kidney disease commonly causes anemia and fatigue, and how it is diagnosed and treated.
Covers: symptoms: anemia
Ayushman Bharat and Tamil Nadu Schemes for Kidney Care
The government schemes that help pay for dialysis and transplant — Ayushman Bharat nationwide, and what Tamil Nadu adds through TRANSTAN and state programmes.
Covers: cost and schemes