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Al
Betska, I tried to answer some of your questions in your other thread. First, though your creatinine numbers make no sense to me (normal is less than 1.2; 2 or higher is very troubling; and past 4 puts one into the dialysis candidate territory), it is clear that your nephew had serious kidney involvement. Oh, and I neglected to say elsewhere that WG also does not care how well you have taken care of your body. On this forum, we have mountain climbers, skiers, gym jockeys, and nutrition freaks. In that regard: Yes, we are what we eat--but not only what we eat. We are the sum of all our life-experiences, including our history of infections, our environment, and our lucky (or unlucky) breaks. So good nutrition is good for you and will help keep you keep in the right frame of mind, but listen to the doctors: please, please, please do not believe that any specific diet can ever be a magic pill.
Again, regarding transplants: Forget it. This is a truly desperation move, and, in any case, not likely to be a long-term solution (besides the fear of rejection, transplanted organs often themselves become diseased. A better solution, but not one available in 2012, is when technology allows re-growth of the patient's own kidneys. Not so easy, though. In the meantime, dialysis is yucky, but pretty successful.
Al
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