One of the misconceptions: nephritis is an incurable disease
Many people think that nephritis is difficult to treat or a stubborn disease that cannot be cured, but this is actually a misconception. Nephrolithiasis is not only treatable, but most of it can be cured or relieved. The effectiveness of the treatment depends mainly on whether the treatment is timely, reasonable and the right medicine, and more importantly, on the patient’s own health care measures (such as diet, rest). The misconception that nephritis is an incurable disease arises, for one thing, because most nephritis is a chronic process, and the symptoms themselves are hidden and not easily detected early and ignored. Often, it is too late to seek medical attention when a large amount of kidney tissue has irreversible damage or loss of function. Second, the basic pathogenesis of kidney disease is ignored. Some patients think they are cured because their symptoms are relieved after treatment and they feel good, so they neglect the treatment and follow-up during the maintenance period, but in fact, the disease is still chronic and slowly progressing. In fact, the disease is still chronic and slowly progressing. When you go back to the doctor when you feel unwell, the nature of the disease has already changed essentially, in fact, the abnormal sensation is months to years later than the urine and blood changes.
Therefore, every patient with nephritis should be reviewed regularly, regardless of their condition, to prevent unpredictability. Early examination, early diagnosis, long-term follow-up and careful treatment are the keys to ensure the efficacy of nephritis.
Myth No. 2: Avoid salt
The folklore says that nephritis patients should avoid salt for three years, in fact, this is not any scientific reason. The actual fact is that there is no scientific justification for this. The pearl does not know that salt is an essential element of human tissue metabolism, and many physiological functions of the human body depend largely on the participation of such substances. The long-term prohibition of salt not only does not alleviate the purpose of the disease, but can make the function of many organs decline, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease; the lighter the disease is prolonged, the more serious can be life-threatening.
Usually, if there is no obvious swelling and hypertension, 3-5 grams of salt can be supplemented daily; for severe edema or hypertension, salt intake can be reduced appropriately according to the situation. In any case, complete salt ban is not advisable.
Myth No. 3: Eat kidney to nourish kidney
Some people think that eating animal kidneys can nourish the kidneys of the self, in fact, this is a misunderstanding. Although animal kidneys are high in protein, they should not be consumed. Because this kind of food, in addition to cholesterol, purine content is also very high. They not only do not play a nutritional role, but will raise the blood uric acid concentration to aggravate the burden on the kidneys, causing adverse consequences.
The fourth misconception: water ban
Many nephritis patients do not want to drink more water, fearing that the increase in urine after drinking water will increase the burden on the kidneys. In fact, the opposite is true, the body’s daily generation of waste depends on urine to bring out of the body. If you drink very little water and do not have enough urine, it will cause the accumulation of waste in the body and increase the burden on the kidneys. Only in patients with obvious swelling is it necessary to limit the amount of water drunk.
Myth No. 5: Misuse of antibiotics
Some patients equate nephritis with general inflammatory diseases (such as enteritis pneumonia, cystitis, etc.) and commonly use antibiotic treatment. The result is not only no obvious effect, but sometimes make the symptoms of nephritis aggravated. In fact, there is a fundamental difference between the two. Nephritis is a metaplasia caused by abnormalities in the immune system, while inflammatory diseases are caused by bacterial infections. The latter can be treated with antibiotics, while the treatment of the former is mainly to remove antigenic substances and block abnormal immune reactions, so immunosuppressants are mainly used, while antibiotics are not effective at all.
On the other hand many antibiotics have more or less nephrotoxicity, if abused without indications, it can cause antibiotic kidney damage and aggravate kidney lesions.
Myth No. 6: Believe in prescriptions
It is a mentality of patients who have not been cured for a long time to seek medical help. The prescription for a major disease is also a psychological trust for patients who are eager to be cured. The so-called prescriptions generally have three cases: 1.
Some of these prescriptions have cured some cases, but their mechanisms need to be studied and confirmed by modern medical theories and methods.
2. Some of them are symptomatic, but not curative.
3, there are even fake drugs.
The reason why nephritis patients can’t just use prescriptions: one is that it is not at all all allopathic, as mentioned earlier there are dozens to hundreds of nephritis, different kinds of nephritis whose causes, nature and severity of lesions are completely different, the treatment is also very different, with a prescription to treat all types of kidney disease is obviously inappropriate; two is that many herbs are nephrotoxic, such as powder prevention has, casual abuse may aggravate the kidney lesions. And most of the drugs are excreted through the kidneys, abuse of drugs will only increase the burden on the kidneys, there are hundreds of harm rather than good. Therefore, for kidney patients, we should wait until the nature and extent of the lesion is clear before considering treatment.
Myth #7: Chronic nephritis is the result of acute nephritis
The Puyi believes that chronic nephritis is the consequence of untreated acute nephritis. In fact, there is no difference between acute and chronic nephritis. This is because the folk treat nephritis as an independent disease, not from the nature of the lesion to distinguish; second, the past understanding of nephritis is limited only to clinical experience, the lack of advanced means today, usually to the length of time and symptoms of the disease as acute and chronic nephritis judgment criteria, so far, there are still many people are accustomed to call nephritis acute or The first thing is that the first time you are treated, your symptoms are relieved, otherwise it is chronic.
In fact, this understanding is one-sided. As mentioned earlier, nephritis is a general term for a large group of diseases, and there can be dozens of them according to their nature. Nowadays, there is no longer a distinction between acute and chronic nephritis based on the characteristics of clinical symptoms. This is because the majority of nephritis clinical signs, features of the disease course and regression are determined by the nature of the kidney lesion and are difficult to determine from clinical aspects alone. For example, there are some types of nephritis, although the clinical symptoms are very prominent, but the pathological damage to the kidney is often self-limiting, that is, after a period of self-adjustment, the renal pathological changes can be self-relief, or even self-healing; while there are some types of nephritis clinical symptoms are very insidious, or even no signs, but the pathological damage to the kidney progresses very quickly.
Therefore, we should not presume to assess the nature and progression of kidney lesions from the clinical symptoms of nephritis patients alone. This may lead to unnecessary treatment of patients who could have recovered spontaneously, while some patients who need timely and durable treatment are lost. The only scientific measure to avoid this phenomenon is to make a kidney biopsy to clarify the nature of the kidney lesion in a timely manner and take targeted treatment measures.
Myth No. 8: Believe in advertising and be deceived
Many patients with uremia do not accept dialysis treatment, but believe in TV and newspaper advertisements, only take medicine, not dialysis, can easily deal with the lie of uremia. When they accept the advertised therapy, the lighter spend money for nothing, the heavier have heart failure, and some even send their lives. Therefore, once you suffer from uremia, you should use alternative therapies as soon as possible, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation, and you should never believe in the advertisements or take a chance on your disease, otherwise, serious complications are likely to occur.