The target of kidney transplantation is to restore patient's state of health to normal. Understanding the needs of a kidney transplantation is utmost important for complete recovery and preventing graft rejection.

Kidney disease also called as renal disease . Renal disease usually affects both kidney at the same time. When both kidney do not work, waste materials and water stay in your body. Your body’s chemical balance becomes dearranged. You become ill and require treatment as your kidney can no longer do its normal function. End-stage renal disease, or ESRD, means that you must have some form of dialysis treatment or a kidney transplant in order to stay alive.

A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure in which a healthy kidney from either a living or deceased donor is placed in your lower abdomen. It is not a cure, but a treatment for chronic kidney failure. It is the treatment of choice for those who are considered suitable candidates for a transplant.

Your immune system will try to attack your new kidney as if it were bacteria or a virus. Therefore, you will be given medication to suppress your immune system (immunosuppression). The first doses of medications will be given in the operating room. As a result of this immunosuppression, you will be at risk for infection. Because infections are contagious and other patients in the hospital are sick, you will need to wear a mask when you are outside of your room and walking around the hospital floor. This is to protect both you and other patients. You also may be placed on “precautions.”

Precautions are extra measures taken when you need extra care to take care of yourself and others. You will be advised if this situation should occur. Please do not be worried if you are placed on precautions.To further protect you from possible infections, we ask that you adhere to the following recommendations both here in the hospital and once you are home. These recommendations have been devised by members of the Transplant Infectious Disease Team to limit exposure to bacteria that may be harmful to transplant recipients.



· You will be instructed to wear a mask for the first six weeks post-transplant, whenever you are somewhere you may be exposed to sick people. For example, any doctor’s office, getting your blood drawn, anytime you are in the hospital corridors or waiting rooms.

· Good hygiene should always be maintained in order to avoid infections. Frequent hand washing and hand sanitizers should be used frequently by you and your family.

· Anyone entering your hospital room (including your care team members) should use hand sanitizer or wash hands thoroughly as they enter.

· Raw or undercooked fish, seafood, meat, and poultry are strongly discouraged.

· You should not have loose ice in your beverages.

· Avoid crowded places in the first month or so after your transplant, while you are taking high doses of immunosuppressive medications as you are more likely to get an infection. Stay away from people who have measles, mumps, chickenpox, shingles, or the flu.

Although these sound like strict recommendations, they are for your benefits. Please speak with a member of the transplant team for further clarification