2023-05-11 00:49:45
On the occasion of kidney day organized every year by the kidney failure network (Resir), it is possible to be tested for free this Thursday in Koné. Each year, 100 people with kidney failure begin dialysis in New Caledonia.
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“Save your life, get screened for kidney disease !” It is one of the messages launched this Thursday, May 11 in Koné, in the room “au Pitiri” for World Kidney Day where screening is free. The opportunity to remember that it is important to detect this silent disease which affects many people in New Caledonia.
Each year, 100 people reached kidney failure start dialysis, 20% of them urgently! Dialysis is one of the supportive treatments that can be done at home or at a dialysis center three times a week. “We have more than 800 hemodialysis patients, twice as many as in mainland France“, comments Dr. Raphaël Cohen, nephrologist and president of Resir, the kidney failure network in New Caledonia. Indeed, in the territory, 2.5 Caledonians out of 1000 have treatment by dialysis or kidney transplant. “It is a major public health issue. In New Caledonia, one patient out of 10 does it at home. This is what allows you to have a life closer to reality, to not be alone in the face of illness.“, adds the doctor.
“Kidney disease is silent, the signs appear if you look for them. When they are there, it is already too late, it means that the destruction of the kidney is important“, indicates Dr. Jean-Michel Tivollier, nephrologist interviewed during the 7:30 p.m. newspaper of NC la 1time. The first factors of kidney failure are: diabetes, hypertension, obesity, infectious disease, genetic diseases… A diet that is not balanced can also impact the risk of diabetes and therefore of renal failure.
To find out if you have this disease, the blood test and the search for albumins in the urine remain the main examinations. Two signs prove that the disease is advanced according to nephrologist Raphaël Cohen : ” distaste for high-protein foods and extreme fatigue linked to anemia.”
It is possible to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease by taking care of your lifestyle and watching your weight, but the only alternative following dialysis is kidney transplantation.
Kidney transplantation in New Caledonia has been possible since 2019. To date, 176 people have benefited from it. “ There is a lack of donors on the Caledonian territory. Many do not know that each of us can donate a kidney“, continues Raphaël Cohen.
Natacha benefited from a kidney transplant five years ago and resumed an almost normal life. This mother of four discovered her kidney failure in 2014 during her last pregnancy. She was treated on dialysis peritoneal home. Her husband gave her his kidney. “ I have found life, release Natasha. “When you’re sick, you can’t do anything, you’re tired all the time!”
A report on Natacha’s “second life” by Brice Bachon and Nathan Poaouteta
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