Patient was educated on how healthy kidneys are needed to properly excrete phosphorus as follows:

1. Healthy functioning kidneys usually filter and excrete the extra phosphorus in your blood.
2. But, when the kidney function is compromised, such as, in a patient with renal failure, the kidneys cannot perform this task of clearing extra phosphorus, as efficiently as they should.
3. So, phosphorus builds up in the body. This extra phosphorus will pull the calcium out of bones, thereby, making the skeletal structures weak.
4. Weak bones can lead to pathological fractures in due course of time.