Symptoms of kidney failure in women

With society developing, more and more women tend to work outside. Those women are respectable because they not only strive for benefits during working but also are occupied in housework. For most women, looking after children and parents, cooking, doing house work are their responsibilities as mothers and daughters. However, they usually ignore their own health. According to the reports of outpatient service in our hospital, many women are diagnosed as the late stages of Kidney Failure on their first checkup. The reason for this problem is that they have no ideal about the early stages of kidney Failure.
Causes of kidney failure include:
Diabetes
High blood pressure.
Glomerular diseases (attacks the tiny blood vessels, or glomeruli, within the kidney).
Genetic kidney diseases.
Poisons and trauma, such as a direct and forceful blow to the kidneys.
Some dietary supplements and over-the-counter medicines can be poisonous to the kidneys if taken regularly over a period of time.
When symptoms of kidney failure do appear, they may include:
Swelling, especially of the legs and feet.
Little or no urine output.
Thirst and a dry mouth.
Rapid heart rate.
Feeling dizzy when you stand up.
Loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting.
Feeling confused, anxious and restless, or sleepy.
Pain on one side of the back, just below the rib cage and above the waist (flank pain).