3 ways in which diabetes is affecting your kidneys and what you can do about it

Diabetes is a disease characterized by high blood sugar levels. Diabetes affects every single organ of the body, but if the kidneys are affected, the long term consequences can be disastrous.

What does diabetes do to the kidney?

Diabetes or high blood sugar, causes damage at a microscopic level at the kidney.

Damage to the small blood vessels in the kidney

The high blood sugar damages the walls of the tiny blood vessels inside the main filtration unit of the kidney. This leads to scarring

Consequences

The damage to the blood vessels of the kidney, leads to increase in the size of the filter. As a result, proteins start leaking out of the blood vessels into the urine

Protein Leakage

Leakage of proteins through the scarred and damaged blood vessels, leads to increased protein in the urine. This is a progressive process. It is not reversible

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