How does alcohol effect a person’s kidneys who has diabetes?
Posted in Definition on 18. Apr, 2010
My aunt is in the hospital now with kidney failure and her pancreas isn’t doing well either. My mother told me because of her diabetes. I over heard that it also have to do with her drinking everyday. I know she drinks whiskey everyday throughout the day. The doctor’s said she’ll have to be in the hospital for about a week.
Is she going to recover? How serious is this?
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if she stops drinking, i know that some diabitics crave the sugar that is in alcohol and if they drink a lot they dont need their insulin anytime you drink a lot you set yourself up for related medical risks, she needs to stop and will probably be on dialysis
Diabetes and its medications do a bad job on kidneys! They can destroy it by themselves.
Alcoholic beverages do a bad job on the kidneys and the liver. They can destroy it.
together the diabetes and medications and the alcohol will cause the kidney failure.
So sorry, she will not recover but will have to have dialysis for the remainder of life!
Drinking affects the blood sugar which affects the kidneys. People with diabetes are at higher risk for kidney problems even without drinking so the combination is bad news.
Kidney problems can be mild or severe, so you just have to wait and see. The same with pancreas problems. May be chronic or may be acute and transitory.
You can go into complete kidney failure and still live a somewhat normal life, but have to go on dialysis. Some folks with kidney failure get a new kidney from a donor.
Lots of “what if”s, but there’s no answer to your question at this point.
Hopefully you aunt will get better and lay off the booze!
Kidney failure is almost always non-repairable. No, she will not recover. She has only two choices: Dialysis or kidney transplant.
A transplant is the best choice, but the consistent alcohol use (some might say she is a “passive alcoholic”) reduces her chances. The failing pancreas (showing uncontrolled diabetes) is another factor against her. Her nephrologist (kidney doctor) will make the decision if she is a good patient for transplant or not.
IF, and that is a big if, she makes The List, there is an average 2.5 YEAR wait to receive a new kidney, in the mean time she MUST take care of the ones she has, or she will need to undergo dialysis.
Dialysis is a NASTY procedure. it is indescribably painful, and it has some really foul effects on your mind and digestive system. Most dialysis patients have a LOT of problems with dizziness and vomiting. I’ve seen big strong men cry just before they enter the dialysis center.
The start of the problem is the diabetes. Diabetes is what damaged the kidneys. Then, she drinks all day every day. That runs alcohol through the damaged kidneys, making them fail faster.
The fact is, with an alcoholic patient with uncontrolled diabetes the chances are NOT very good to get a transplant. Even on dialysis, there is a good chance that she has less than 5 years to live.