Dehydration With Renal Failure

Each day, your kidneys filter waste products and extra water from approximately 200 quarts of your blood. However, extreme dehydration can lead to acute renal failure (ARF), which means your kidney function suddenly stops.

Types

• Prerenal conditions, according to the Mayo Clinic, are conditions that can lead to ARF. When a prerenal condition, like dehydration, occurs there’s a sudden disruption of blood flow to the kidneys.

Significance

• As a result of dehydration, your body can’t adequately circulate blood--and the waste products that it carries--to your kidneys, so those waste products accumulate in your body.

Symptoms

• Symptoms of dehydration include dry mouth, thirst, dizziness and rapid heart rate. You may also experience shortness of breath, confusion and fluid retention in your ankles, legs and feet.

Treatment

• Treatment for ARF with dehydration is aimed at restoring your blood circulation levels. Thus, your doctor will administer intravenous (IV) fluids to you to increase blood circulation.

Prevention/Solution

• According to the Nephrology Channel, your prerenal ARF with dehydration will dramatically improve with intravenous fluids. Your kidney function and urine output will also increase.