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Swollen feet and ankles (edema) in (CKD) happen because failing kidneys can't remove extra fluid and salt, causing it to build up in tissues, especially lower limbs due to gravity, often noticed as tight shoes or sock marks. This fluid retention is a key sign, along with protein loss (nephrotic syndrome), leading to swelling around eyes, hands, feet, and legs, and sometimes breathlessness. Managing this involves low-sodium diets, fluid restriction, and treating underlying kidney/heart issues.
How Causes Swelling (Edema)
Fluid & Sodium Imbalance: Damaged kidneys can't effectively filter waste and excess sodium (salt) and water, leading to retention in the body.
Protein Loss ( ): Kidney damage can let albumin (a crucial blood protein) leak into the urine. Low albumin levels in the blood cause fluid to shift from blood vessels into tissues, causing swelling.
Gravity: Fluid tends to pool in the lowest parts of the body, like feet and ankles, making swelling worse there by the end of the day.
Signs & Symptoms
Puffy or swollen feet, ankles, hands, or face.
Skin may be tight, or leave temporary indentations (pitting) when pressed.
Socks might leave marks on the skin.
Feeling of being bloated or distended.
Breathlessness (if fluid builds around the lungs).
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(hypertension) damages kidney health by narrowing, weakening, and hardening the kidney's blood vessels, impairing their ability to filter waste and excess fluid, which in turn causes fluid and salt to build up, further raising blood pressure in a dangerous cycle that can lead to kidney failure. Kidneys also regulate blood pressure, so when they're damaged, they struggle to control fluid and hormones, worsening hypertension.

How Harms Kidneys
Damages Blood Vessels: The force of high blood pressure damages the delicate arteries and filtering units (glomeruli) in the kidneys, reducing oxygen and nutrient supply.
Impairs Filtration: Damaged vessels can't filter waste and extra fluid effectively, causing toxins and fluid to build up in the body.
Creates a Vicious Cycle: The retained fluid increases blood volume, which pushes blood pressure even higher, causing more kidney damage and making blood pressure harder to control.
How Kidney Damage Worsens Blood Pressure
: Healthy kidneys release hormones (like aldosterone) that help regulate blood pressure.
Reduced Regulation: Damaged can't properly manage fluid, salt, and these hormones, leading to elevated blood pressure.
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Kidney problems, especially Disease (CKD), are common in older cats, with key signs including increased thirst and urination, weight loss, poor appetite, lethargy, vomiting, and bad breath. Causes range from infections and toxins to genetics, and while there's no cure, early diagnosis via blood/urine tests allows for management with special diets, fluids, medications, and hydration to slow progression and improve quality of life, say vets and the PDSA.
Common Symptoms
Behavioral: Hiding, decreased energy, poor coat quality.
Urinary: Drinking much more water, urinating more frequently/in larger amounts.
: Decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, bad breath, mouth ulcers.
Physical: Weight loss, pale gums, dehydration signs (dry gums, poor skin elasticity).
Severe: Blindness, seizures (due to high blood pressure).
Causes
Infections (like pyelonephritis).
Toxins (certain plants, chemicals).
Kidney stones (nephrolithiasis).
Cancer.
Genetic conditions.
Aging.
Diagnosis & Management
Diagnosis: Blood tests (checking creatinine) and urine analysis are key.
Treatment Goals: Slow the disease, manage symptoms.
Management Includes:
Diet: Prescription kidney diets.
Hydration: Encourage water intake (fountains help).
Fluids: Subcutaneous (under the skin) fluids for dehydration.
Medications: For blood pressure, nausea, phosphorus levels.
Vitamins & Supplements.
What You Can Do
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Nausea/vomiting

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Kidneyinfection (Pyelonephritis) symptoms, treatment and prevention
Kidney infections are caused by bacteria and require immediate medical attention because they can lead to permanent kidney damage or a dangerous blood infection called sepsis if you don't get help right away.
Medically reviewed by
Shahzia Lakhani
Last updated
October 8, 2025
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What is a kidney infection?
A (pyelonephritis) is a complication of a urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by bacteria entering the urinary tract. The urinary tract is the system that makes urine (p*e) and carries it from the kidneys, through the bladder, and out of the body.

If you have pain in the sides of your lower back, fever, chills or pain while urinating (p*eing), call your doctor right away. Kidney infection can be serious and can affect one or both of your kidneys.

Kidney infections lead to about 200,000 hospital visits each year

Women are 6 times for likely than men to a get a kidney infection with about 1 in 600 women affected each year

What are the symptoms of a kidney infection?
A can show up in different ways for everyone. Sometimes it begins with mild changes, like burning or needing to urinate more often. Other times, symptoms such as fever, vomiting, or blood in your urine signal that it's more serious and you should contact your doctor the same day or go to urgent care or the emergency room right away.

Common symptoms
Pain or burning when you p*e
Feeling like you have to p*e right after going
P*eing more often than usual
P*e that looks cloudy or smells bad
Moderate symptoms
Pain in your lower back, side or groin
Fever
Chills
Severe or serious symptoms
Nausea or vomiting
Blood or pus (thick white or yellow liquid) in your urine
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