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