Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Talking about keeping kidneys healthy

Kidney foundation aims to raise awarness on kidney disease

Harvey Roy lays hooked up to a dialysis
machine for treatment on March 21, 2014
at the Moose Jaw Union Hospital.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Because of kidney disease, a person could lose up to 80 per cent of kidney functions without showing any symptoms.

Once an individual has lost 85 per cent of kidney functions, dialysis is required to survive. That’s why the disease is known as the silent killer.

“It’s a really small window from when you get symptoms to when you’re in dire straits,” said Diane Panton Kashuba, communications manager with the Saskatchewan branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. “(We need to) get people talking about it and finding out whether or not they’re at risk.”

March is Kidney Health Month. Panton Kashuba said the foundation uses the month as a chance to increase awareness of kidney disease.

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