What exactly is renal kidney disease and what are the sypmtoms?

This question is really too general to answer completely.
Because there are many types of kidney diseases, there are many kinds of symptoms that people can experience. You should go to www.kidney.org (the national kidney foundation website) and take a look at the patient information.

To address a previous comment, urine output is often confused with kidney function. The amount of urine made does not tell you about your level of kidney function or whether your kidneys are sick. Please remember that depending on the cause of kidney disease/failure (chronic or acute), a person could experience low, normal or high amounts of urine output. The way kidney function is tested is by using laboratory values--the most common value used is called the serum (blood) creatinine level.

The laundry lists of signs and symptoms that are usually given for kidney failure are LATE symptoms of kidney failure. These generally occur when a person is at a point where their kidneys have failed completely and they require dialysis treatments. Most people with early/moderate kidney failure have NO symptoms at all.

So, the most common symptoms of kidney disease are no symptoms at all. Kidney disease is usually a SILENT disease that is more often then not picked up by checking routine laboratory tests. It is not ususally picked up by symptoms. Catching kidney disease early is the best way to prevent further kidney damage.

The best advice is to check with your doctor and make sure they have checked your level of kidney function. It is important to note that certain diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease are major causes of kidney disease. If you have these and other predisposing diseases, you need to make sure your doctor checks for kidney problems on a regular basis. If there is a kidney problem, you may need to be referred to a specialist (nephrologist).

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Not sure which renal kidney disease you are referring to so this is for acute renal ---- if you need other information try the first source link to narrow your search.


Numerous conditions can lead to acute renal failure. They include infections, alterations of blood pressure, obstructions of the urinary tract and certain drugs, to name a few. They all result in varying degrees of acute failure of the cells of the kidney to work. The result is a buildup of waste products in the blood and tissues. A list of the underlying conditions that might produce acute renal failure include: shock with very low blood pressure, blood poisoning (septicemia), congestive heart failure, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, blood-transfusion reaction, severe accident with extensive muscle injury, acute glomerulonephritis, multiple myeloma, obstruction of blood vessels that supply the kidney, kidney stones that obstruct both ureters or the urethra, prostate enlargement, use of certain medications, including anticancer drugs, kanamycin, amphotericin B, anticonvulsants or excessive vitamin D, and overdose of many poisons or drugs, especially mind-altering drugs.

Signs and Symptoms of Renal Failure, Acute
In the early stages of acute renal failure there is little or no urine output. Symptoms of later stages include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and loss of appetite. Severe itching, high or low blood pressure, unexplained bruising, bleeding spots under the skin or spontaneous bleeding may also occur. As the condition progresses and toxins build up due to malfunction of the kidneys, mental changes, irritability, drowsiness, stupor, coma, convulsions can all occur. Symptoms of the underlying cause will also be present.