Is it safe to donate a kidney, how does a person survive even with one? Some important things related to donation
Former Bihar CM and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav is to undergo a kidney transplant at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital on Monday. His daughter Rohini Acharya will give her kidney to her father. It is being told that earlier Lalu was against Rohini's decision to donate a kidney but later agreed.
Like the lungs, there are two kidneys inside the human body. Because their work is also big. They are very small in size as compared to the heart, lungs and liver, but work 24X7. Kidneys work to clean our blood and remove waste materials from the body. Many people donate a kidney to their family members when needed but kidney donation is not a small thing. After kidney donation, there is a need to take special care of some things. So let's know what the things related to kidney donation that is very important to keep in mind...
Is kidney donation safe?
Doctors thoroughly examine the person before donating a kidney. During this, doctors try to know whether you are fit to donate a kidney or not. Donating a kidney will not cause you any serious illness if you are healthy. Although there is some risk in this whole process, kidney donation is considered very safe. In many cases, the person does not face kidney, diabetes or any kind of health-related complications after kidney donation. The kidney is such an organ that does not require a biological relationship for transplant and donation. For this, it is important for the person who donates to be healthy.
Two kidneys are not needed
You will be very surprised to know this, but it is true that your body does not need two kidneys to do the necessary work like taking out the waste substances and regulating metabolism. Experts say that usually we have two kidneys, but when a person donates one of his kidneys, the body takes more work than normal from the remaining one kidney and the function of one kidney increases and on that function a person becomes normal. Life can be lived
Experts say that in some people, one kidney works less than two kidneys since birth. In these cases, it has been seen that such people do not face any problems in life. So due to all these things, it is concluded that even with one kidney a person can live his life.