The heartbreaking news about kidney failure of a politician made me numb with fear as this disease has become pandemic.The cause of her kidney failure is diabetes. This demon, diabetes, affects 1 out of 10 adults in India. Almost half of these diabetics will develop kidney disease over course of their illness. 60% of these patients will die of heart-related ailments before reaching the stage of dialysis.
The cost of treating diabetes in terms of economics is huge, each diabetic needs 3 basic drugs namely drugs to control blood sugar, drugs for lowering lipids or fats and lastly medicines to control blood pressure. To be frank, in spite of full dosage of each category of drugs, none of these three (sugar, lipid and blood pressure ) can be controlled satisfactorily. Once kidney disease develops, blood sugar comes down with minimum drugs while blood pressure goes up. The patient remains…
