Correlation Between Binge

Eating Disorder & Kidney Failure

Issue

• Binge Eating Disorder

Disease

• Renal Failure

Technology

• Kidney Transplant

Issue

Binge Eating Disorder

Description

Binge eating is basically a condition where a

person consumes an insane amount of food in a

short period of time on a regular basis.

Signs To Look For

The person would:

• Not have control over the amount they eat

• Eat unusually large amounts of food

• Have severe depression

• Eat even though not hungry

• Be easily irritated

Disease

Renal Failure

Description

Renal Failure means that the kidney(s) lose their

basic function of filtering urea and other wastes

from the blood stream. If left alone, the person

would end up poisoning themselves through the

waste products produced by the food they eat.

Symptoms

• Swelling of extremities

• Nausea

• Potassium build up

• Phosphate build up

• Darkening of skin

• Low volume of urine

Affect on Body

A Renal failure will have drastic consequences if

left untreated. The body will slowly become

septic and poison itself due to the high levels of

urea in the blood. Patients with renal failure will

have to undergo dialysis at least 3 times a week

just to keep them alive and kicking. If it was

only an acute renal failure, the kidneys may be

able to regenerate and function properly again.

Relation

The relationship between a binge eating disorder and renal failure is an indirect one. The eating disorder will provide an imbalance of concentration between water and solutes in the blood. That in turn will make it easier for the solutes to form precipitates in the form of a kidney stone. If it slides into the ureter, the pressure caused in the kidney will gradually destroy the renal substance, leading to renal failure.

Treatment

Kidney Transplant

Description

Kidney transplant is a procedure where you add

a donor’s (dead or alive) kidney into a patient

with renal failure to replace the function of their

damaged organ. The donor’s kidneys are placed

in an area near the groin where doctors will have

easy access to it in case of future complications.

Developing technologies

The next in line to take the throne would be stem cells. It is currently the best way to treat most malfunctioning organs because it uses unidentified cells from the umbilical cord to fix or repair the cells. Stem cells are basically the cells which formed you in your fetal stages. They were the ones that magically turned into a heart, liver, kidneys etc. By placing it in the damaged organ, doctors hope that it would grow to become like the cells around it, repairing the organ.

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Sites/cites• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_eating_disor

der

• http://www.mirror-mirror.org/binge.htm

• BBC Life & Death series E.3.

• Google Images

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_failure#Symptoms

• http://www.ineed2know.org/kidney-stones.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_transplantation