Kidney Basics
This organ filters waste from your blood
What is the kidney?
Kidneys remove this from the body
What is waste?
Kidney function goes up or down with age?
What is a decrease?
Long-term kidney damage disease
What is CKD?
Drinking enough ______ protects kidneys
What is water?
Tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the bladder.
What are ureters?
Balance of water and salt in the body
What is fluid and electrolyte balance?
More urination at night is called
What is nocturia?
Sudden kidney failure
What is AKI?
This condition must be controlled to protect the kidneys
What is diabetes or high blood pressure?
This organ stores urine
What is the bladder?
Kidneys help control this vital sign
What is blood pressure?
Aging kidneys concentrate urine better or worse?
What is worse?
Infection of the urinary system
What is UTI?
These drugs can harm the kidneys if overused
What are NSAIDs?
This tube carries urine out of the body.
What is the urethra?
The process of making urine
What are filtration, reabsorption, and secretion?
Aging kidneys respond faster or slower to fluid changes?
What is slower?
Hard crystals formed in kidneys
What are kidney stones?
The test used to check kidney function
What is creatinine or GFR?
You only need one of these organs to live
What is a kidney?
Kidneys help control your blood ______
What is pressure?
These changes are normal or disease?
What is normal aging?
Confusion in older adults may be a sign of this infection
What is UTI?
Good hygiene helps prevent this
What is UTI?