Our body needs right amount of potassium for the proper functioning of various organs, cells and tissues present in our body. Potassium (an electrolyte) helps in the proper functioning of the digestive system and muscular system. Potassium helps in proper funtioning of cellular body functions and electrical functions. This mineral plays an important role in functioning of the heart and skeletal system of our body. Potassium is available to common man in various food, nuts, fruits (citrus fruits, bananas, kiwi, apricots) vegetables(broccoli,tomatoes, potatoes,peas) meat (red meat and chicken)and fish. The presence of too much potassium in the blood is said to be hyperkalemia and if this mineral content is too less we call it as hypokalemia. The right amount of potassium can be maintained in human body with the help of balanced amounts of sodium and magnesium in the blood. Potassium deficiency causes malnutrition and malabsorption syndromes like Crohn's disease.

There are various reasons for the presence of too much potassium in the body like severe infections, abnormal functioning of the kidney or any breakdown in proteins. People under medication need to be careful as some medicines affect the ability of throwing out the excess potassium from the body. The increase or decrease of potassium in our body depends upon the prevailing health condition. But both are harmful for a person. Potassium helps in maintaining the pH balance in your body and also balances the water content correctly. Potassium is mostly present in the cells of your body and only two percent is found in blood. High levels of potassium are harmful to heart and they even damage it.

Too much potassium creates disturbances in heart beat. At times the heart beat may even stop. At this moment calcium is given intravenously so that the heart can be proptected. Insulin and glucose depending upon the situation are also given to move the potassium from blood into the cells. If these measures do not work well then finally the doctors opt for dialysis to remove the presence of excess potassium. Doctors try to diagnose this Hyperkalemia through blood tests or through electrocardiography. Doctors prescribe those drugs through which the potassium content can be excreted from the body and advise to stop consuming foods those are rich in potassium. The main reason for hyperkalemia is the use of few drugs that obstruct the flow of blood to kidneys  by preventing them in excretion of excess potassium. People need to get a check up regularly to maintain the potassium levels to avoid further complications.

Renal failure treatment, a few years ago the prognosis of acute renal failure was almost always no prospects. With the accumulation of medical knowledge, especially with the introduction of the method of dialysis, could save many lives. Defined here are the primary nature of the disease, which led to kidney failure, and the nature of kidney damage.

So, now forecast at an acute tubular necrosis is favorable in the case when it caused the disease for itself, it is not very heavy. If the cause of his illness was serious, then the prognosis, even today, is not particularly comforting. Poor prognosis and a sharp increase in nitrogen content in the blood or in very old age, man.

Important is the timeliness of the consent of the person to conduct with dialysis. Any delay not only increases the danger of the violation of electrolyte balance (too much potassium in the blood, pulmonary edema, or brain), but also increases the chances of infectious and hemorrhagic complications. Even today, the prognosis of necrosis of the renal cortex is very bad, because it is associated, apparently, with the irreparable destruction of kidney tissue. The same applies to auric (with reduced urinary flow) glomerulonephritis.

In acute renal failure treatment should be started first with caused her initial disease (high blood pressure, fall in extracellular fluid ...) In acute tubular necrosis (the most common cause of acute renal failure) must first take care of that found in body fluids, and they contain substances in the rate of its volume and concentration. In addition, it is necessary to reduce the concentration of harmful organism metabolites. Since renal function, and hence the selection process and violated, then this should be done solely by reducing protein intake.

with a sharp decrease in urination (oliguria), a person must comply strictly with bed rest and be isolated from others as possible to eliminate any infection. Liquids should be taken only at a specific amount to only compensate for the loss of fluid through the skin, intestines, lungs and kidneys. As a guideline, you can take a daily loss of water from 200 to 500, as the norm. A more reliable indicator is the concentration of sodium in blood plasma, which should be determined periodically. If she declines, then the received amount of fluid should be reduced.

In general, it can be regarded as a normal take daily fluid volume of 400-600 ml. for people without taking into account the extraordinary loss of fluid (vomiting, diarrhea ...) Of course, the subject of kidney diet body has sufficiently provided the necessary energy and essential substances.