King Saud Medical City provided a set of medical tips and instructions that help prevent kidney disease, coinciding with World Kidney Day.
The city stressed the need to avoid excessive consumption of medications without a prescription, and to control chronic diseases that may lead to kidney damage, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, while maintaining physical activity and a healthy weight, eating a healthy balanced diet, and refraining from smoking.
She pointed out that the types of kidney diseases include chronic kidney disease, which is a long-term condition during which the kidneys do not function normally, as well as acute kidney failure, which is a sudden failure in kidney function that prevents the filtering of blood from toxins, in addition to other kidney problems such as cancer, cysts, stones and infections.
