Anemia of chronic disease

poverty in her daily experiences. The girl and her family wake up on dirty mattresses with no sheets because they were used for diapers. The family smells of urine, sour milk, spoiled foods, and onions. They smell of spoiled milk because their refrigerator doesn’t work and it cost too much to fix. Parkers essay shows how people would say to the girl “anybody can be clean (954)” they say that in clean clothes from their clean homes. Parker further explains how the girl feeds her kids food that uses the least amount of dishes because she only has a few dishes. Also, she has no soap or warm water to wash the dishes. Her hands are red, cracked, and bleeding from the cold water. Right after she had her third child she learned she had chronic anemia. The anemia was caused by poor diet and a very bad case of worms. She couldn’t afford the operation she needed. Even if she could who would watch the kids, they had no family living nearby. The healing time would take away from work which the girl could not afford. Broussard explains how “poverty related trauma includes concerns related to isolation, victimization, discrimination, and stigma, in addition to the lack of basic material resources like housing and food (Broussard 2012).” Her work is never ending. She dropped out of high school to get a job to help her parents pay for bills. When she got married things started to look up but then her husband lost his job. She gets odd jobs to help put food on the table. The house keeps…

“Chronic Kidney Disease, also called chronic kidney failure, describes the gradual loss of kidney function. Your kidneys filter wastes and excess fluids from your blood, which are then excreted in your urine. When chronic kidney disease reaches an advanced stage, dangerous levels of fluid, electrolytes and wastes can build up in your body”. Chronic Kidney disease usually relates to anemia and the level of anemia correlates with the severity of renal failure. Many conditions can cause CKD, causes…

Pathophysiology for chronic kidney failure • Chronic kidney failure, also previously known as chronic kidney disease, is a nonreversible disease. The kidney may lose up to 80% of its nephrons before any signs and symptoms may appear. The nephron is the smallest part of the kidney and its job is to filter blood. The loss of nephrons can come from various ways ranging from diabetes, hypertension, urinary tract obstruction, chronic glomerular disease and chronic infection. Diabetes causes loss…

Kidney disease is normally caused by the damage to the nephron. This damage can be caused by genetics, injury, drugs, cancer, cysts, stones, and/or infection (National Library of Medicine, 2015). Glomerulonephritis is when the glomeruli are inflamed. The disease can be acute or chronic and it can be a primary or secondary form of glomerulonephritis, depending on how the glomerulonephritis is caused (Mayo Clinic, 2014a). Nephrotic syndrome is when the urine has too much protein in it, causing the…

kidneys are in everyday life. Chronic Kidney Disease is a serious condition that can be life threatening. CKD can result in kidney failure. It is a progressive condition that can be slowed by a healthy lifestyle. CKD has many symptoms, and it has a few treatments. Kidney disease is a serious condition that has various symptoms, few treatments, and several stages that many people overlook. Kidneys are an important part to a person’s…

dialysis, peritoneal dialysis, chronic peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. There is no current cure for chronic kidney disease. However, some treatments can help control the signs and symptoms, reduce the risk of complications, and slow the progression of the disease. Most acid-base disorders do not require treatment abnormal pH http://www.labtestsonline.org.au/learning/index-of-conditions/acidosis/tests-and-treatment.…

"Anemia is a reduction in the total number of erythrocytes in the circulating blood or a decrease in the quality or quantity of hemoglobin" (McCance & Huether, 2014, p.982). There are many causes of anemia and are classified in this manner. There are three classifications: macrocytic-normochromic anemia, microcytic-hypochromic anemia, and normocytic-normochromic anemia (McCance & Huether, 2014). Macrocytic-normochromic anemias encompass pernicious anemia and folate deficiency anemia (McCance &…

INTRODUCTION Patient J is an elderly female who presented to the ED with pneumonia, pulmonary edema, hypoxia, and sepsis. Patient J’s genitourinary issues include stage three chronic kidney disease (hereinafter CKD) with high BUN and creatinine lab work supporting this condition. She also has a history of Diabetes Mellitus II which is of significance due to the relationship between high blood sugar and kidney damage. Also of significance are three contributors to the concept of chronic kidney…

material from the blood. When the kidney loses the ability to filter, the body fluids can rise in dangerous levels. Acute renal failure can be reversible as long as it is treated on time. Medication and other treatments can be essential to stop the progress of this disease. If this is not treated on time, it can progress to an end stage and eventually death. Acute renal failure is one of the leading causes of death in US. “A sudden, serious drop in blood flow to the kidney. Heavy blood loss,…

Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic Kidney disease(CKD) is also known as Chronic Kidney Failure and is the gradual loss of kidney function. The kidneys are responsible for filtering wastes and excess fluids from the blood, which is than excreted through urine. When CKD reaches an advanced stage, the levels of fluids become very dangerous and it causes electrolytes and wastes to build up in the body.(Mayo Clinic, 2016) Pathophysiological Process CKD occurs when a disease or condition impairs kidney…