Importance of Routine Kidney Monitoring

So, um, you know, absolutely ensure that your child's kidneys are being, kidney function is being monitored on a regular basis. We say that, um, you know, during the 1st 2 years of life, because there's so many changes happening very quickly that the creatinine kidney function should be monitored at least every 6 months. And then from age 2 to about age 9, 10, where there's that kind of relatively stable growth pattern. Every year, once a year is OK, and then when they hit that puberty again, because that's another period of danger for the kidneys because of that accelerated growth rate and so many changes happening, that, um, they're again in a child who is at risk, if they're CKD1, we'll probably say every year is OK, but if they're a CKD stage 234, we're saying every 6 months we should see them and make sure their kidney function's being monitored. So if we see a change in that kidney function or an accelerated loss of function, we're going to start making plans to intervene. Anything to add to that, Donna? No, I'm just going to say, you know, other things too, is sometimes as the kidney function gets worse, we do need to not even screen them a little bit more frequently, but I agree, um, at minimum, every 6 months to every year is a pretty reasonable screening strategy, depending on the age and what else is going on.