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Mary Pacherres has been on dialysis for eight years to treat her chronic kidney disease, which is impacting rural communities throughout Peru. Both of her brothers died from the same disease. While the exact causes are still unknown, researchers speculate that heat stress and dehydration are the main culprits along with exposure to agricultural chemicals, unsafe working conditions, and the effects of climate change.
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Health workers are in the process of conducting voluntary screenings throughout the country in an effort to treat patients before the illness becomes terminal.
This short film by Ed Kashi and Tom Laffay tells Mary's story.
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@NatGeo 6 лет назад

Factors that are speculated to contribute to kidney disease amongst Peruvians include environmental conditions and dehydration while working. What are your thoughts on the stories shared here?

@Jevisdoncjesuis 6 лет назад

I'd say it's several factors. But I think one parameter is missing ; sugar. I know that in Latin America drinking Coke instead of water is normal. And the consequences are dramatic (ex Mexico). Thanks for the video.

@xyzsing4038 6 лет назад

Can Dehydration lead to kdney disease?

@sonjagarcia9252 6 лет назад

The lack of clean water and proper nutrition play big parts in this. :(

@f-s-r 6 лет назад

I'd say agrochemicals. Big problems with them in Argentina, also, on small agricultural towns. Or maybe even mining, as leaks have repeated in certain parts of Argentina, and no doubt Peru also, which leaks such dangerous chemicals as cyanide. It's sad, but when something like this happens, it often has to do with some rich corporation or landowner cutting corners to illegal and unethical extremes for the sake of earnings, and lack of control from the government.

@Tamaresque 6 лет назад

@@naruto5682 No it's not. It can be inherited, but the major cause of renal failure around the world is uncontrolled or poorly controlled diabetes. And some, like mine, have no explanation at all: just the luck, or not, of the draw. But in most developed countries the risk of developing kidney failure is now 1 in 3, and most people have no idea until they end up in the emergency department.

@AzlianaLyana 6 лет назад

For a family having to go through this, one after another member is just too heartbreaking. I really hope they stay strong and that the researchers could finally figure out the main cause of this. Thanks for sharing National Geographic.

@genevahnicole 6 лет назад

It heart breaking to see one family go through this. My 6 year old twin daughter keep going to the toilet every second took her to the dr tests done and she got something wrong with her kidney so we have to do more test I pray and hope it nothing serious

@FRIEDYOGURT-s4c 6 лет назад

Mum Of twins I wish her the best of luck, may god bless her

@TheKalikalam 6 лет назад

No it won't be anything serious, stay strong... god bless ur family

@EseCuate562 6 лет назад

🙏

@dlrightnow 6 лет назад

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

@imam212 6 лет назад

Wish her the best 🤲

@charliev-lakers4life415 6 лет назад

Hello to all the people of Peru. I enjoyed your country , the people there are so friendly !! 👍👍👍

@erdvilla 6 лет назад

This is also happening in Tlajomulco, Jalisco, Mexico. For the past 5 years the rate of atypical kidney disease has skyrocketed among the under 30 year population. But authorities blame it on genetics. But it is well know it has a high pollution in water due to the amount of factories and farms sharing the same land.

@thapeloheath 5 лет назад

Yes, that sounds plausible. I'm in southern Mexico, and fortunately the water sources seem pretty clean as they come from the mountains with no industry and minimal chemical agriculture. Diabetes is all over the place, of course, and insane consumption of bubbly sugar drinks is what i hang it upon, along with a widespread cultural resistance to fasting. They are as petrified of skipping meals as people i grew up around in the coddled north. Let alone giving their body a whole day to cleanse! Add to that cheap dry bread with dough conditioners taken before breakfast and after dinner with sugary coffee, and i cringe thinking about their poor innards. On the bright side, there's a progressive element in society here, and some of these people investigating health and nutrition have (unlike among my people) parents or grandparents with significant herbal knowledge. Also on the bright side, the bloqueos around here are a longstanding tradition absolutely lethal to industry or industrialised agriculture. I've come to view it like the broken leg that saves the person from dying in an avalanche that kills all his two-legged friends.

@monachericevollbracht7604 6 лет назад

Great film!! Thank you!

@jerichomaquiling6795 5 лет назад

Im on a hemodialysis treatment for 2 years now,.i feel the pain she suffer,cant explain the depression and stress until now for myself,,i already admit that this disease will gradualy kills me,.

@00kidney 5 лет назад

What are you eating right now?

@Yoalfi 6 лет назад

So painful to see how they struggle day after day. God help them.

@yanmustand 6 лет назад

The short was simply great it does make sense for the mix of condition paired with the higher temps from climate change, even we had some weird disease happening because of the heat in Canada.

@MukeshKumar-in2rv 6 лет назад

My mom is also affected by this chronic disease. It's just heartbreaking. She need Dylesis every week

@TheKalikalam 6 лет назад

It's really sad to see someone in such a terrible situation.... i hope she will be allright.... Namasthe..

@praggypopsqa4652 6 лет назад

I know 2 people who died of kidney disease. One had diabetes and a stressful life. The other had kidney disease in her family. She was Mexican and many Mexicans seem to get it without being diabetic. She was only 48, but she canceled appts often. I was the last person to see her alive.

@magdaaguilar5608 2 года назад

Ten fe en Dios yo estube 12 años en dialysis peritoneal y hace 2 años recibi mi transplante Gracias a mi Dios Padre el tube misericordia de mi y tambien la tundra contigo bendiciones

@asmrandsoundeffects4961 6 лет назад

Poor people :(

@Nekminute 5 лет назад

The chemicals are in their food and water supplies

@00kidney 5 лет назад

very intelligent comment

@Ans42k 6 лет назад

Really nice Film and I hope this Epidemic (A bit like an Epidemic ) ends soon

@charlessmith263 2 года назад

I have high blood pressure and I am not in Peru. But I am warned that high blood pressure is the no. 1 cause of chronic kidney disease which leads to renal failure. So I am on a CCB right now.

@maxman177 6 лет назад

so much inequality in the society makes the poor suffer more. They're human too and they need good enough food and drinking water to survive. In the western countries, you'll see people are wasting food, wasting money on drinking alcohol, why not you guys just donate this money? If you donate then you'll get a good society where people will not kill people for money. I am planning to help these help but me alone in not enough, we need to support each other first so that we can support them.

@Nehaiojvgj 6 лет назад

Yes, indeed. My God why is there so much misery. Every month I want to donate to help people. I gave for the people going out of Venezuela. They are starving...and now this. And so many others...we all need to help. Even 1 dólar, euro, dirham whatever...it counts.

@davidbuschhorn6539 6 лет назад

It's weird they didn't follow someone with one of the mysterious/unknown causes of kidney problems instead of an uncontrolled diabetic whose problem is clearly identifiable (if not necessarily treatable in her area).

@Tamaresque 6 лет назад

How do you know she's an uncontrolled diabetic? After nine years on dialysis they'd have that under control. However, if she's having trouble breathing then she's clearly overloaded with fluid and her machine clearances need to be adjusted up ASAP. The mum giving her fluids is the worst thing she could have done. That and not taking her to the hospital immediately.

@davidbuschhorn6539 6 лет назад

She keeps talking about, "I don't feel sugary." so mom says "Here, have some more sugar water, you've been drinking it all day." I'm guessing here, (as a Type I diabetic for 36 years) that non-diabetics wouldn't even have that in their vocabulary. They show her legs occasionally and there seems to be skin breakdown :-( When I was little, at diabetic camp, there was a counselor who was maybe... 25? Huge lesion on her shin from diabetes. It would scab over. Scab would fall off and it would be a little bigger. Now this was in the early 80s when control was more difficult. The pump hadn't even been invented yet. I recently asked one of the other counselors if she knew what happened to that gal. "Probably dead. She was really uncontrolled." Long story short (too late!), her legs looked like that girls, with the blotches and bruise-y discolorations. :-(

@dallasmandy 6 лет назад

Where i live most people die of cancer and kidney failure. The doctors say it's in the water

@alcurtis93 6 лет назад

Lots of agriculture? Heavy metals and pesticides in the water. It's disgusting what's done to people's health for the profits of the minority

@fringes475 6 лет назад

It's in the water. Chemical Pesticides and Fertilizers have probably contaminated their water sources

@kemalgans7382 6 лет назад

Respect, most dedicated job in the world.

@coquito2fe 6 лет назад

Que tristeza profunda siento por mis hermanos peruanos

@jean-alexandrebolduc6918 6 лет назад

the quote at the beginning tells it all...

@miminmint 6 лет назад

I cry 😭

@tngchinghwa 5 лет назад

this is sad, honest hard working people are suffering

@00kidney 5 лет назад

I agree... :-(

@genevahnicole 6 лет назад

I wonder what causes this kidney problems?

@AppleVsGravity 6 лет назад

Race. It's a racist, divisive disease.

@genevahnicole 6 лет назад

Erectus Maximus what does it means

@NatGeo 6 лет назад

While the exact causes are still unknown, researchers speculate that heat stress and dehydration are the main culprits along with exposure to agricultural chemicals, unsafe working conditions, and the effects of climate change.

@thomas-w8948 6 лет назад

How is climate change a factor?

@AppleVsGravity 6 лет назад

@@NatGeo Your globalist liberal agenda is showing NG. I guess you want Americans to take in millions of these individuals too.

@byronchavarria4954 Год назад

Which Kidney Failure Needs Dialysis Chronic Or Acute?

@Shiza234 6 месяцев назад

Choronic

@byronchavarria4954 6 месяцев назад

@@Shiza234 Actually Both Acute And Chronic. Also Acute Kidney Failure Requires Dialysis

@Shiza234 6 месяцев назад

But acute is short term and we cannot have both the kidneys fail at the same time and if somone have one kidney failure for short period of time other kidney could manage

@josueaguilar3923 6 лет назад

That's so sad. People, stay hidrathed. And if you're having issues with your kidney, go to the hospital. Take care people.

@Tamaresque 6 лет назад

The problem is that, until you're close to death, there are no symptoms. They said that in the video. That's why the public health programs aimed at combatting kidney failure stress getting tested regularly. All it takes is a simple urine test and the disease can be slowed with diet, lifestyle, and drug therapy.

@terrye4810 6 лет назад

🙏🏻😭🙏🏻😭🙏🏻😭🙏🏻

@chiquitodaviii2913 5 лет назад

wow! makes me realize that I go through CHALLENGING MOMENTS in my life, not necessarily HARD TIMES.

@AnimalsAndReports 6 лет назад

Taking water breaks throughout the day can go far

@changesaregood6666 6 лет назад

En peru 😨

@danaelona4081 6 лет назад

😢

@gagehaze8565 6 лет назад

Oh I didn’t realize it was here one of the 7th

@MrDenomo 6 лет назад

Dry places

@scatteredvideos1 6 лет назад

I want to see there symptoms and see if they actually need dialysis. They could be being miss diagnosed

@Robbievigil 6 лет назад

Just look at her eyes, the jaundice is obvious.

@Tamaresque 6 лет назад

How can they misdiagnose renal failure? A simple urine test will tell you immediately! That's how I found out, too much protein and blood in the urine. It's not hard to diagnose.

@scatteredvideos1 6 лет назад

@@Tamaresque people can have too much protein in their urine and sugar all the time. It doesn't always mean that you have kidney failure. It can be a simple kidney infection and too much sugar in your urine can be caused simply by drinking a ton of sugar. It can be misdiagnosed.

@scatteredvideos1 6 лет назад

@@Tamaresque Diabetes also causes both of those.

@ayudyahprimaningrum6962 6 лет назад

one of my internal med supervisor told me there are three common physical findings in CKD px: pallor, hypertension and urinary problems. add past medical history of drug or substance usage and metabolic disease, then check renal function test.

@phennix08 5 лет назад

This makes me sad... how canWHO not know what is causing this!? I am Peruvian on my mother’s side and have family that lives in rural areas... they are forgotten. If it’s a matter of proactive health care teaching for diet and hydration why isn’t it being taught?

@watjejanssen7535 6 лет назад

Monsanto,Bayer and more

@gethecked4446 6 лет назад

P E S T I C I D E S

@ogbeborchristabel9276 8 месяцев назад

Big thanks to Dr emuakhe on RU-vid from Africa for having every criteria to human health, his kidney cleansing herbs saved my dad's lives from the unfortunate situation.

@Tamaresque 6 лет назад

Across most of the world 1 in 3 of us are at risk of developing kidney failure. Most of that is caused by diabetes or inherited polycystic kidney disease (PKD), and the rest is chance. There are no symptoms until you are close to death so please get your kidey function checked once a year. All it takes is a urine sample. Early detection means a long life. I was diagnosed at 17 and I'm now 65, so living proof of that. I started dialysis at 27, had a transplant the same year, which lasted 20 years. Then 4 more years of dialysis before transplant 2 from a living donor, which has been going for 13 years now. Both my donor and myself live a normal life and my blood tests are either normal or pretty close to it.

@Shiza234 6 месяцев назад

Hi how r u now

@riverice7 6 лет назад

Mercury to separate gold is seeping into the water supply and agriculture, my guess.

@Nehaiojvgj 6 лет назад

That would make sense since the lady also had seizures and mercury gives neurological problems.

@byronchavarria4954 Год назад

Also Why Are People Working In The Fields

@mrza44 6 лет назад

First of all, you need to know what chemicals are being used for agriculture. Most powerful killer of human being is profit(!)

@mrza44 6 лет назад

it is impossible for this size of population (a country). And also in some countries, people have difficulties with clean drinking water. Keep your eyes open, do not put what they said as the only truth. Agricultural chemicals have a devastating effect on people. Muslims also don't take water breaks when fasting in the long sunny days of Ramadan.

@asifhussain7131 6 лет назад

Sad

@mikejade4146 6 лет назад

the Polititcians look the other way as their voters continue to suffer...shameful and heartbreaking...

@ghosttgirlghosttspook5478 6 лет назад

she needs help, if they take her to a kidney specialist, I think she can get more help, take her to the nearest big city, or have someone call and find out can't where a specialist is!

@Nehaiojvgj 6 лет назад

Yes, and I understand why she is scared and does not want her sister to give her one kidney. So many sickness and death in the family already. I hope you get your illness better soon. Best wishes for you.

@tengoquesalirdeestacasa7096 6 лет назад

GV.

@naveenboddu410 6 лет назад

The pain she feels out of breath Is due to high blood pressure It doesn't allow patients to sleep sit stand or do anything it shakes the life of entire family I have experienced it and gone through transplant treatment It is better but God knows when my situation is gonna change to back Not even enemy should experience this

@ghosttgirlghosttspook5478 6 лет назад

I have a kidney problems, I lost one to cancer and the other one is blocked, so I pee in a bag till I get it fixed,

@william8707 5 лет назад

I am kidney transplant 4 years ago

@marthaperdew 4 года назад

When I go to the doctor they check to make sure my kidneys are working

@hardtruthhall7777 6 лет назад

Probably from the chemicals being sprayed in the skies all around the world. You know geoengineering .

@thebest21445 6 лет назад

why sugar water for treatment. im pretty thats bad for you

@rosannecoffman1933 6 лет назад

More victims of Monsanto?

@pedroj3432 6 лет назад

Yes

@HugsmadeDrugs 2 года назад

Monsanto is banned from Peru what are you on about

@machyne82 6 лет назад

Metabolic syndrome from refined carbs, vegetable oils, and sugar.

@scarletpeoni9347 6 лет назад

machyne82 if that's the cause, why do many healthy eaters get sick and people who eat junk remain healthy and live. There has to be more of a genetic component, if the father is okay

@machyne82 6 лет назад

Scarlet Peoni why do some people smoke and never get lung cancer. I guess cigarettes don’t cause cancer 🤔. Think about what your saying

@arthurdavykillthanos6268 6 лет назад

I never want to get sick !!

@johnjenks7812 6 лет назад

Im afraid that's impossible to avoid we all get realy sick at some point!😂😁😂

@arthurdavykillthanos6268 6 лет назад

John Jenks I only want to have less terrible diseases then .

@yanesrosenskrabe1724 6 лет назад

You can’t choose genius !

@alcurtis93 6 лет назад

@@yanesrosenskrabe1724 diet plays a large part. Primarily vegan plus fish is said to be the most preventative from the epidemiology studies

@fairouzbirsiq2502 6 лет назад

شيء مؤلم وجود الأمراض 😞

@eaftseh994 6 лет назад

Because howard the 👽

@edgarcardenas837 6 лет назад

$##$e god

@Tamaresque 6 лет назад

Wow, I was so shocked by her family praying for her instead of taking her to the dialysis unit! And giving her water! With sugar in it, too! Where's the education that normally goes with dialysis? Especially after nine years of it!!! At first, because both brothers had kidney failure at such a young age, I thought they all must have inherited PKD, especially after seeing the dad's abdomen, but "unknown origin"? With blood tests and pathology labs you'd think they'd have some idea! This is very disturbing.

@Nehaiojvgj 6 лет назад

Tamaresque...they are very poor! Do you think they can pay transportation and treatment? That is the problem, they are in so much need they are not getting good care

@sarasaraaa-va7680 6 лет назад

first

@revoke1 6 лет назад

Someone should start a go fund me.

@raqueljenson5972 6 лет назад

Great idea

@ilvtofo 6 лет назад

Her sister offered her a kidney, Why wont she take it?!?

@imam212 6 лет назад

Because both her and her sister are at risk of dying because of complications. Also, if her kidney disease is due to bad blood sugar contol when having diabetes, the new kidney will be damaged in no-time. They can't solve the problem if they don't take away the cause.