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Whole Body Impact This hard-working vitamin holds many big jobs. It affects your mood, appetite, sleep, and thinking. You need it to fight off infections, turn food into energy, and help your blood carry oxygen to all corners of your body. While it’s actually rare to run low, you really can’t afford to do so. Flagging Energy If your body is very low on B6 (which is rare), you can get anemia, which is too few red blood cells. That would make you feel tired and weak. Anemia can also come from not having enough iron in your body. Shortages of other vitamins, like B12 and folate, also may cause it. Seniors may run low on B6 if they don’t eat enough food or because their bodies don’t absorb nutrients as well as before. Kidney disease and other conditions that keep your small intestine from taking in nutrients also can be culprits. So can alcohol abuse. Some prescription medicines can also cause you to not have enough B6. If your doctor prescribes a new medicine, don't hesitate to ask...

Your kidneys and the circulatory system work hand in hand. Kidneys need many blood vessels to filter out the waste from our blood. So, not only does high blood pressure affect the kidneys significantly but at the same time, the functionality of the kidneys can also have a direct impact on your blood pressure readings. As a young adult, high blood pressure is not that common but many youngsters do suffer from it. As per experts, it is a common myth that high blood pressure can only affect the elderly. There is no age bar to the condition. Anybody can develop hypertension. As per experts, hypertension can be both primary and secondary. The former has no known cause but the latter is usually caused by an underlying condition affecting the kidneys, thyroid, adrenal gland and others. Hypertension and kidney disease among youngsters Dr Sanjeev Gulati, Principal Director, Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, Fortis Escorts (Okhla, New Delhi) said that there is no age bar for high blood pressu...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) Three variables e-GFR App commonly used to determine kidney function uses age, gender and blood Creatinine level to determine GFR. GFR below 15 is stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), also called End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD). These patients are a candidate for kidney replacement treatment. Suppose kidney replacement therapy is not done once someone reaches ESKD. In that case, the person may develop nausea, vomiting, breathing difficulties, water accumulation inside the lungs and other areas, drowsiness, fits, coma, high blood levels of potassium, retention of toxins and acids in the body and can be fatal. AV Fistula is created by joining arterial blood of the arm with venous one by connecting them with the help of minor surgery. After approximately two months of surgery, the vein gets arterialized, and due to increased pressure, it becomes thicker and broader. Thick and wide veins are necessary for doing hemodialysis...