How Car Donation Helps

Posted by MatthewNeer on Oct 13, 2011 in How Car Donation Helps | 1 comment

Kidney Disease is a major health problem in the United States and across the world. Can you believe that over 380,000 Americans rely on dialysis machines to keep them alive? And on top of that, there are more than 88,000 on the waiting list for a list saving kidney transplant.

Recent studies show that Chronic Kidney Disease is on the rise, with over 26 million Americans having full blown Chronic Kidney Disease, it is becoming extremely difficult to treat all of them with top notch care. The numbers are just becoming too overwhelming to give everyone the best possible treatment they need. And because symptoms may not appear until the kidneys area actually failing, it can be very difficult for people to know when they are having kidney problems because they will feel fine until their kidneys become to overloaded with acids and fats that they just collapse.

How Your Car Donation Helps Fight Kidney Disease

We want you to know that your donation is going to be well spent at the National Kidney Foundation. More than 81¢ cents from every dollars of your car donation goes directly to the National Kidney Foundation to help some of its most vital programs and services like…

• Patient & Community Services: This is for early detection screenings and overall prevention of Kidney Disease and to help support family and friends whos lives have been changed forever by Kidney Disease.
• Public Education & Awareness: This is to raise the overall general publics awareness of Kidney Disease so the world knows what a serious disease we are facing and to stress the importance of early detection as well as the massive need for organ donations.
• Professional Education Programs: To ensure that Kidney Doctors and other health care professionals never stop learning on the cutting edge of Chronic Kidney Disease treatment and early detection.
• Kidney Disease Research: To identify and practice new treatment methods and techniques.
• Patient Advocacy: To make patients voices heard through legal and legislative actions.

Top 10 Reasons To Donate Your Car To Help Fight Kidney Disease

1. The Kidney Foundation Car Donation Program is one of the fastest and easiest ways to get rid of an unwanted vehicle sitting around taking up space.
2. You will not longer need to pay those annoying property taxes, registration fees or insurance premiums on infrequently used vehicles.
3. We will come to you and tow your car totally for free. You pay nothing and have everything to gain.
4. Your car donation will help will help reduce air pollution by having one less vehicle on the road.
5. The Kidney Foundation Car Donation program is the oldest, largest and most trusted car donation program in the country and have been around for 25 years as of 2008.
6. Last year, the Kidney Foundation Car Donation Program collected over 46,000 tons of material and recycled it, putting to use brand new materials that would have otherwise went straight to landfills.
7. 75% of every dollar raised goes directly to fight Kidney Disease and fuel our mission.
8. The money raised through the car donation program funds early detection screenings for people at risk of Chronic Kidney Disease, research for new ways to treat the disease, public and professional education programs, and patient services, including summer camps for kids on dialysis and financial aid for Chronic Kidney Disease patients.
9. You qualify for a massive tax deduction that can save you thousands.
10. YOUR CAR DONATION CAN SAVE THE LIVES OF THOSE ON DESPERATE NEED!

So as you can see, there are many great reasons why your car donation can help fight Kidney Disease and help discover new ways to treat and overcome the disease epidemic. We hope to have your support as we move into the future of fighting, and hopefully being able to cure Kidney Disease once and for all.

Thank you for your time.

The National Kidney Foundation

Posted by MatthewNeer on Oct 12, 2011 in National Kidney Foundation | 1 comment

The National Kidney Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract disease to improve the health and well being of families and individuals effected with Kidney Disease and increasing the availability of organ donations and transplants across the world.

What Is The National Kidney Foundation?

The National Kidney Foundation has been providing help, hope and support for kidney patients and their families since 1950. Today, with locations across the country The National Kidney Foundation is finally able to start meeting the growing public health challenge of chronic kidney disease with a range of vital programs and services for the public, patients and healthcare professionals.

The National Kidney Foundation raises awareness about kidney health and the importance of early detection through the national “Love Your Kidneys” public service campaign, news releases, free brochures, local education programs, a toll-free hotline and an information-rich website.

Every year, thousands of people have benefited from the free kidney early evaluation program and has helped save the lives of over 160,000 people already just from getting an early checkup on your kidneys each year. When you can find the early signs of kidney disease, they can be easily reversed because not much damage has been done yet. But the longer you take to diagnose your condition, the worse its going to be. Get checked early and often.

In just the past year, The National Kidney Foundation has been awarded over $90 million dollars in grants to over 1,000 scientists for research into the prevention and treatment of kidney disease and other related conditions.

Since its inception, The National Kidney Foundation has been the leader in organ and tissue donation. Recently, the foundation relaunched its campaign to END THE WAIT once and for all for a kidney transplant in the US by eliminating barriers to donation across the country.

What you can do to help is consider donating a vehicle to The National Kidney Foundation, where all 100% of the proceeds go to the foundation in order to further their research in curing Kidney Disease once and for all. Plus you’ll get a really nice tax write off. 

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How You Can Hep Fight Kidney Disease

Posted by MatthewNeer on Oct 8, 2011 in Fight Kidney Disease | 2 comments

Kidney Disease is something that has effected millions of people, not just in America (although thats where its the highest, most likely due to the typical fast food diet) but all over the world.But before we learn how you can help fight Kidney Disease now, we need to learn a little bit more about exactly what it is and why people contract this deadly disease.

Kidney Disease Symptoms

However the symptoms of Kidney Disease are not always obvious, which is why its wise to get tested regularly if you suspect something it up. Symptoms can range from just feeling generally unwell to total loss of appetite and even pain in and around the kidney area when symptoms really start to worsen.

Kidney Disease can initially only be detected by the increase in serum creatinine or protein in the urine. Yet as the Kidneys function decreases, other symptoms become much more apparent.

• Blood Pressure is increased because of fluid overload and production of vasoactive hormones produced by the kidney. This can also lead to or increase ones risk of suffering from a heart attack.
• Potassium accumulates in the blood.
• Urea accumulates, leading to azotemia and ultimately causing uremia. Urea is extracted by sweating and crystallizes on the skin, causing Uremic Frost.
• Erythropoietin synthesis is decreased, which can lead to anemia and cause extreme fatigue.
• Metabolic acidosis, due to over accumulation of sulfates, phosphates and uric acids. This may cause unusual enzyme activity due to the excess acid acting upon the enzymes.

People suffering from Kidney Disease are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and are more likely to suffer from a heart attack in their life time versus someone suffering from just one of the diseases.

Causes Of Kidney Disease

The most common causes of Kidney Disease are diabetes, hypertension, glomerulonephritis. Combined, these three diseases are responsible for causing about 75% of all Kidney Disease in the world today in adults. Certain geographic areas are also more likely to have HIV as a cause of Kidney Failure as well.

In the past, Kidney Disease was thought to have only a very few causes. But in the past few years, many other diseases have been linked to the causes of Kidney Disease and ultimately Kidney failure. Here’s a list of a few of the new diseases found to be linked to Kidney Disease.

• Vascular, including includes large vessel disease such as bilateral renal artery stenosis and very small vessel disease such as ischemic nephropathy and vasculitis.
• Glomerular, such as primary and secondary Glomerular.
• Tubulointerstitial including polycystic kidney disease, drug or toxin induced chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis.
• Obstructive such as with bilateral kidney stones and diseases of the prostate.
• And even on rare occasions, pin worms infecting the kidney can cause nephropathy.

Special Treatments To Cure Kidney Disease

The goal of any treatment or therapy of Kidney Disease is to slow down or even in some cases, stop completely the progression of the disease to stage 5, wich is complete and total kidney failure. Control of blood pressure and treatment of the original disease are the primary goals to manage any Kidney Disease.

Currently several compounds are in development for Kidney Disease, these include bardoxolone methyl,olmesartan medoxomil, sulodexide, and avosentan. Replacement of erythropoietin and calcitriol, two hormones processed by the kidney, is often required in patients with more advanced Kidney Disease. Phosphate Binders are also used to control the serum phosphate levels, which gradually increase as the disease becomes more advanced.

When one reaches stage 5 of Kidney Disease, renal replacement therapy is required in the form of dialysis or transplant. The normalization of hemoglobin has not been found to have any effect of benefit.

People with Kidney Disease are at a much higher risk of cardiovascular disease and heart attack. The most common cause of death in those infected with advanced forms of Kidney Disease is more often heart failure than renal failure, thus making it very important to focus on aggressive hyperlipidemia treatment.

How You Can Help Fight Kidney Disease

There are many organizations that exist to help aid in the fight to cure kidney disease, such as the National Kidney Foundation among many more. If you are a non sufferer of Kidney Disease and perhaps you know or have a close loved one who is infected with this brutally nasty disease, there is an easy and fun way you can help them overcome their disease.

The Kidney Foundation Car Donation is a GREAT way for anyone thinking of getting rid of an old car to give 100% of their funds straight back into the hands of an organization focused solely on fighting Kidney Disease.

When you donate your car to the National Kidney Foundation, you are going to feel so great about yourself, knowing that you’ve done a little piece to help serve humanity and may even end up saving someones life because of your generous actions.

If you would like to learn more about how your car donation can not only get your a massive tax deduction but also help save the life of the millions infected with Kidney Disease, explore the rest of this website and check out some of the links to learn more.

Thank you for your time.

Kidney Foundation Car Donation

Posted by MatthewNeer on Oct 1, 2011 in How Car Donation Helps | 2 comments

Hey there all,

Welcome to the Kidney Foundation Car Donation, this website is dedicated to helping you understand the values and benefits of donation a car to help fight kidney disease. With every car you donate to the cause, you will help fight Kidney disease.

There are hundreds of thousands of people suffering from kidney disease all over the world, and tens of thousands on the waiting list to get kidney transplants who are desperately in need of them to live.

By donating a car today, you can help save someones life and in part, you a little bit to help better the world.

Stay tuned for more info coming really soon.