Healthy kidneys clean the blood by removing excess fluid, minerals, and wastes. They also make hormones that keep your body healthy. When a person’s kidneys fail, harmful wastes build up in the body, blood pressure may rise, and the body may retain excess fluid and not make enough red blood cells. Treatment for kidney failure [...]
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Kidney Failure Treatment: Dialysis
By consumer injury lawyer on September 4, 2009 in OsmoPrep Injury Lawyer Kidney Failure, OsmoPrep Visicol Kidney Failure Treatment
Acute phosphate nephropathy linked to laxatives
[Posted 05/05/2006] FDA notified healthcare professionals and consumers of reports of acute phosphate nephropathy, a type of acute renal failure, that is a rare, but serious adverse event associated with the use of oral sodium phosphates (OSP) for bowel cleansing. Documented cases of acute phosphate nephropathy include 21 patients who used an OSP solution (such [...]