what is a kidney kist of water?
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Simple kidney cysts are abnormal pouches containing fluid. Most often, simple cysts do not cause symptoms or harm the kidney. In some cases, however, pain can occur when cysts enlarge and press on other organs. Sometimes cysts become infected or suddenly start to bleed. Less often the cysts impair kidney function. Simple cysts can also cause high blood pressure. \n\nhttp://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/cysts/\n\nKidney cysts are almost always benign (not cancer). Usually, the cysts don't cause any problems. In fact, people can go through life without even knowing that they have them.\n\nhttp://familydoctor.org/653.xml
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Lesion. This is a hole in your kidney, or the surface of the kidney.
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http://health.howstuffworks.com/kidney1.htm\n\ntry this site.  to the point and easy to understand....
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It could be. If you have any doubts, then do a kidney cleanse.\n\nHave you already gone through the full kidney and colon cleansing processes?\n\n        Kidney cleanse is any procedure that involves drinking a huge amount of liquid, and taking care what you are eating. Just a better diet with more water can be enough! But, also any form of bowel cleansing will also help kidneys! The Master Cleanse Lemonade Diet  is also a Kidney cleanse, juice fasting is also a kidney cleanse, and any other form of fasting that incorporates a lot of liquids, will in the same time clean a kidney. Do you need special herbs? Only if you have acute lower back pain, clear symptom of Kidney stones (sharp glass like crystals, made of phosphoric acid, or sometimes may include other acids). In special occasions, you can get a kidney stone crystallized in less then a few days !!! To melt a stone/stones, you may need a few weeks, or one day with the Watermelon Cleanse.\n\n            Recipes for Kidney Cleanse:\n            Herbal Kidney Clease\n            Watermelon Cleanse\n            Water Cure\n            More on kidney cleanse herbs\n\n        Herbal Kidney Cleanse  Designed by Dr. Hulda Clark from her book "The Cure for All Disease", explains in detail how to cleanse the kidneys, and her cleansing program will get rid of most if not all the stones, WITHOUT surgery.\n        Ingredients:\n\n            1/2 cup dried Hydrangea root\n            1/2 cup Gravel root\n            1/2 cup Marshmallow root\n            4 bunches of fresh parsley\n            Goldenrod tincture (leave this out of the recipe if you are allergic to it)\n            Ginger Capsules\n            Uva Ursi capsules\n            Vegetable glycerine\n            Vitamin B6 250mg\n            Magnesium oxide 300mg or 1/4 cup Green Drink Beverage\n\n        Measure ¼ cup of each root and set them to soak, Together in 10 cups of cold tap water, using a non-metal container and a non-metal lid (a dinner plate will do).  After four hours (or over night),    bring liquid with soaked herbs to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.  Drink a ¼ cup as soon as it is cool enough.  Pour the rest in through a bamboo or plastic strainer into a sterile pint jar (glass) and several freezable containers.  Refrigerate the glass jar.\n        Find fresh parsley at a grocery store that does not spray its produce (ask the owner). Boil the fresh parsley, after rinsing, in 1 quart of water for 3 minutes.  Strain out the liquid, then drink ¼ cup when cool enough.  Refrigerate a pint and freeze 1 pint.  Put the cooked parsley in your compost bucket.\n        Dose:  each morning, pour together ¾ cup of the root mixture and ½ cup parsley water, filling a large mug.  Add 20 drops of goldenrod tincture and 1 tbs. of glycerin.\n\n        Drink this mixture in divided doses throughout the day. Keep cold. Do not drink it all at once or you will get a stomach ache and feel pressure in the bladder. If your stomach is very sensitive, start on half this dose.\n\n        Save the roots after the first boiling, storing them in the freezer. After 13 days when your supply runs low, boil the same roots a second time, but add only 6 cups water and simmer only 10 minutes. This will last another 8 days, for a total of three weeks. You may cook the roots a third time if you wish, but the recipe gets less potent. If your problem is severe, only cook them twice.\n        After three weeks, repeat with fresh herbs. You need to do the kidney cleanse for six weeks to get good results, longer for severe problems.\n\n        Also take:\n\n            Ginger capsules: one with each meal (3/day).\n            Uva Ursi capsules: one with breakfast and two with supper\n            Vitamin B6 (250mg): one per day\n            Magnesium oxide (300mg): one a day\n\n        Take these supplements just before your meal to avoid burping.\n\n        Some notes on this recipe: this herbal tea, as well as the parsley, can easily spo
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The Kidney's primary function is to remove waste material from the blood stream.  Oxygen is used by every cell in the body to help metabolize nutrients.
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Known medically as pyelonephritis (PI-low-nef-RI-tis), kidney infections usually start in the bladder. If your resistance is low, germs from the bladder can travel up the tubes (ureters) that lead to the kidneys, take up residence, and multiply. An acute kidney infection starts suddenly with severe symptoms, then quickly comes to an end. A chronic kidney infection develops slowly, grows steadily worse, and hangs on. The chronic variety can lead to kidney failure, thus possible transplant. Without care, you may get repeated kidney infections and even kidney failure. The infection could also spread to other parts of your body and cause worse problems.
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Yeah you can get a bladder infection that if goes untreated then can lead to a kidney infection, I know because it happened to me.. anythime you have to go pee go pee, bacteria love the urine to sit in the bladder your bladder can only hold 500 ml and it will start to back up into your ureters to your kidneys not a good thing.
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First blood is sent into the kidneys to be processed through the nephrons of the kidney which take out substances that are not wanted in the blood such as excess water, salts, amino acids and uric acid which becomes the urine. Next the urine is sent through the ureters to the bladder where when full a signal is sent to the brain that gives that feeling that you need to go. It then goes through the urethra into the toilet or where ever you might be peeing.
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The nephron is the functional unit of the kidney, responsible for the actual purification and filtration of the blood. About one million nephrons are in the cortex of each kidney, and each one consists of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule which carry out the functions of the nephron. The renal tubule consists of the convoluted tubule and the loop of Heinle. \n\nhttp://coe.fgcu.edu/faculty/greenep/kidney/nephron.html\n\nThe nephron is the basic unit of the kidney. It is a long thin tube that is closed at one end, has two twisted regions interspaced with a long hair-pin loop, ends in a long straight portion and is surrounded by capillaries. \n\nThe parts of the nephron are as follows: \n\n* Bowman's capsule - closed end at the beginning of the nephron. It is located in the cortex. \n* Proximal convoluted tubule or proximal tubule - first twisted region after the Bowman's capsule. It is also in the cortex. \n* Loop of Henle - long, hairpin loop after the proximal tubule. It extends from the cortex down into the medulla and back. \n* Distal convoluted tubule or distal tubule - second twisted portion of the nephron after the loop of Henle. It is also in the cortex. \n* Collecting duct - long straight portion after the distal tubule that is the open end of the nephron. It extends from the cortex down through the medulla.\n \nEach part of the nephron has different types of cells with different properties -- this is important in understanding how the kidney regulates the composition of the blood. \n\nAdditional information about nephrons here:\n\nhttp://www.howstuffworks.com/kidney2.htm
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Kind of. You can get kidney stones in some areas depending on the quality of the water.
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What is kidney failure? \n\nThe function of the kidneys is, among other things, to get rid of the waste products that result from the body's metabolism. \n\nOne of the major by-products of the metabolism of protein (muscle) is urea. The kidneys remove the waste products by extracting them from the blood and sending them along the ureter to the bladder, from where they are excreted in the urine.\n\nIf the kidney function fails, the waste products accumulate in the blood and the body. The term for this build-up is azotaemia. \n\n \nTerm watch\n\nAzotaemia is the build up of waste products that accumulate in the blood and the body when the kidneys fail to function. \n \n \nVery mild levels of azotaemia may give little or no symptoms, but if the kidney failure continues then symptoms will start to appear. \n\nIf the kidney (or renal) failure is of sufficient degree to cause symptoms, it is called uraemia.\n\nWhat causes renal failure? \n\nRenal failure can happen rapidly - over days, weeks or months (acute renal failure) or slowly over a period of years (chronic renal failure).\n\n\nAcute renal failure\n\nThis may occur with any serious illness or operation, particularly those complicated by severe infection. If the blood supply to the kidneys is reduced considerably from blood loss, a fall in blood pressure, severe dehydration or lack of salt, then the kidneys may be damaged. If this problem lasts long enough there can be permanent damage to the kidney tissue.\n\nSudden blockage to the drainage of urine from the kidney can cause damage. A kidney stone is a possible cause of this. \n\nAcute kidney damage can occur as a rare side effect of some medications and other rare conditions. \n\n\nChronic renal failure\n\nThere are many causes of chronic renal failure, including inflammatory conditions affecting the kidney tissue, as a complication of long-standing diabetes mellitus (sugar diabetes), chronic blockage to the drainage of the kidneys and as a result of certain inherited conditions such as polycystic kidney disease. Often, the cause has occurred many years earlier and cannot be identified.\n\n\nWhat are the symptoms?\n\n\nAcute renal failure\n\nHere the symptoms are largely those of the condition causing the kidney failure, such as:\n\n\nblood loss, causing a drop in blood pressure.\n\n\nvomiting and diarrhoea, causing dehydration.\n\n\ncrush injuries. If large amounts of muscle are damaged there is a release of toxic protein substances that are harmful to the kidneys.\n\n\nSudden blockage of urine drainage.\n\n\n\n\nChronic renal failure\n\nThe damage to the kidneys is usually 'silent' and not noticed at an early stage. It may be discovered incidentally from blood or urine tests done for other reasons. High blood pressure very commonly occurs with it. Symptoms are uncommon unless kidney failure is far advanced, when any of the following may be present:\n\n\ntiredness\n\n\nitching\n\n\nloss of appetite\n\n\nnausea and vomiting\n\n\nbreathlessness \n\n\nfluid retention, shown as ankle swelling (oedema)\n\n\nweakness.\n\n\n\n\nHow is renal failure treated? \n\n\nAcute renal failure \n\nMost causes of acute renal failure can be treated and the kidney function will return to normal with time. Replacement of the kidney function by dialysis (artificial kidney) may be necessary until kidney function has returned.\n\n\nChronic renal failure\n\nChronic kidney damage is usually not reversible and if extensive, the kidneys may eventually fail completely. Dialysis or kidney transplantation will then become necessary.\n\nChronic kidney failure is a serious condition which needs urgent attention when it is diagnosed, but the kidney damage is usually 'silent' and not noticed at an early stage.\n\nOccasionally it may be possible to identify and treat the cause of the renal failure itself. More commonly the treatment has to be non-specific. In all cases, careful blood pressure control is extremely important in slowing the pr
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It could be a kidney infection.
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Kidney. Although it really depends on your definition of solid.
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kidney, specifically the nephron
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you will have kidney problems
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Kidney stone\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n(Redirected from Kidney stones)\nJump to: navigation, search\nKidney stone  \nUltrasonic instrument and kidney stone \nICD-10 N200 \nICD-9 592.0 \nDiseasesDB 11346 \nMedlinePlus 000458 \neMedicine med/1600 \nKidney stones, also known as nephrolithiases, urolithiases or renal calculi, are solid accretions (crystals) of dissolved minerals in urine found inside the kidneys or ureters. They vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a golf ball. Kidney stones typically leave the body in the urine stream; if they grow relatively large before passing (on the order of millimeters), obstruction of a ureter and distention with urine can cause severe pain most commonly felt in the flank, lower abdomen and groin. Kidney stones are unrelated to gallstones.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Aetiology \n2 Symptoms \n3 Diagnosis & Investigation \n4 Treatment \n5 Secondary Prevention \n6 Famous sufferers \n7 See also \n8 References and notes \n9 External links \n \n\n\n[edit]\nAetiology\nConventional wisdom has held that consumption of too much calcium can aggravate the development of kidney stones, since the most common type of stone is calcium oxalate. However, strong evidence has accumulated demonstrating that low-calcium diets are associated with higher stone risk and vice-versa for the typical stone former.\n\nOther examples of kidney stones include struvite (magnesium, ammonium and phosphate), uric acid, calcium phosphate, or cystine (found only in people suffering from cystinuria). The formation of struvite stones is associated with the presence of urease splitting bacteria (Klebsiella, Serratia, Proteus, Providencia species) which can split urea into ammonia, most commonly Proteus mirabilis.\n\n[edit]\nSymptoms\nKidney stones are usually asymptomatic until they obstruct the flow of urine. Symptoms can include acute flank pain (renal colic), nausea and vomiting, restlessness, dull pain, hematuria, and possibly fever if infection is present. Acute renal colic is described as one of the worst types of pain that a patient can suffer from. But there are also people who have no symptoms until their urine turns bloody—this may be the first symptom of a kidney stone. The amount of blood may not be sufficient to be seen, and thus the first warning can be microscopic hematuria, when red blood cells are found in the microscopic study of a urine sample, during a routine medical test.\n\n[edit]\nDiagnosis & Investigation\nDiagnosis is usually made on the basis of the location and severity of the pain, which is typically colic in nature (comes and goes in spasmodic waves). Radiological imaging is used to confirm the diagnosis and a number of other tests can be undertaken to help establish both the possible cause and consequences of the stone. Ultrasound imaging is also useful as it will give details about the presence of hydronephrosis (swelling of the kidney - suggesting the stone is blocking the outflow of urine). It will also show the 10% of stones that do not have enough calcium to be seen on x-rays (radio-opaque stones).\n\nThe relatively dense calcium renders these stones radio-opaque and they can be detected by a traditional X-ray of the abdomen that includes Kidneys, Ureters and Bladder—KUB. This may be followed by an IVP (Intravenous Pyelogram)(IVU - IntraVenous Urogram is the same test by another name) which requires about 50ml of a special dye to be injected into the bloodstream that goes straight to the kidneys and helps outline any stone on a repeated X-ray. These can also be detected by a Retrograde pyelogram. Computed tomography, a specialized X-ray, is by far the most accurate diagnostic test for the detection of kidney stones.\n\nInvestigations typically carried out include:\n\nMicroscopic study of urine, which may show proteins, red blood cells, pus cells, cellular casts and crystals. \nCulture of a urine sample to exclude urine infection (either as a differential caus
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everyone who said the bladder doesn't process anything is right, but assuming you meant kidneys, I would say the in to out time depends on a lot of things. Some of them include how hydrated you are, what kind of toxins and wastes you've got floating through your body that your body wants to get rid of, and the levels of certain hormones, such as antidiuretic hormone (this one keeps you from peeing until you become a wrinkly prune, so you can imagine what too little or too much can do to you).