‘Keyhole’ Surgery : An Inventive Boon For Live Kidney Donors.

Making healthy selections early on – what you eat, how active you are, and how you handle stress or spend your leisure time – has been shown to lower your likelihood of illness and sickness later. Larry Bryan, Director of Health Promotion and Wellness at The Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Making correct food selections is an easy way to take a position in your future health. Staying physically fit gives you better control over body weight, increases your energy, helps you to sleep more deeply, forestalls bone loss and decreases stress. If you want to restrict your activity for health reasons, talk to your healthcare team about an acceptable exercise or sports program before you start.

While this life-saving gesture is a blessing for the recipient, it can pose challenges on a number of levels for the donor. The standard practice for removing a kidney is to make a 20- to 30- centimetre incision across the side of the body, go thru 2 – 3 layers of muscle and remove ten centimetres of rib. With incurred scarring and many months of successive indolence, the choice to be a donor is understandably daunting for most. “It involves an eight to10 centimetre cut in the groin area, so there’s less chance of infection and other issues.

In the process, doctors inflate the donor’s abdomen to make tiny keyhole-size cuts. A laparoscope ( small fibre optic camera ) is then inserted, with long instruments used to sever blood vessels and detach the kidney.

2 years back, Glenn Collins underwent the 1st laparoscopic kidney retrieval in Southern Alberta to help his big brother, Michael, a diabetic who was identified with kidney illness in 1997. Glenn’s present gave Michael a new lease on life, especially since his bro had been deemed an improbable applicant for a transplant on account of his age and medical history. It’s hard to change a life of eating habits, or to all of a sudden start thinking like a sportsman, he admits, but when you factor in the potential benefits, it’s actually worth the effort.

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