Hot summer is the high season of diseases, kidney disease is also the case, and the condition of kidney disease patients is easily aggravated. So, what things should we pay attention to in summer? 1, summer susceptible to infectious diseases and lead to kidney disease Hot weather and low air pressure in summer, the resistance of the human body will also decline, susceptible to bacteria, viruses and other infections and cause upper respiratory tract infections, intestinal infections, skin infections, etc., and then trigger the post-infection immune response and lead to kidney disease. Therefore, you should avoid excessive use of room cooling, frequent aerobic exercise, regular rhythm of life, once the occurrence of infectious diseases followed by regular treatment. 2, urinary tract infections are very common in summer People sweat more in summer, plus like swimming and other water sports, bacteria can easily invade the urethra, causing urinary tract infections. Due to the special physiological structure, women have a greater chance of infection than men. So friends who like to swim should be careful not to splash in inactive water, and not to go swimming in unclean river or river water. 3, summer blood volume fluctuations, easy to lead to kidney ischemia, more likely to aggravate the original kidney disease Because of more sweating, prone to instability of the body’s circulating blood volume, resulting in kidney ischemia, which can lead to kidney disease patients kidney condition deterioration. Therefore, it is vital to develop regular water drinking habits in summer. However, patients with renal insufficiency, edema and anuria, the intake of water should follow the principle of “the amount of water for in”, that is, when sweating increases, the amount of water to drink increases, and when edema occurs, the amount of water to drink should be reduced in order to reduce the incidence of heart failure and maintain relative health. 4. Strong ultraviolet radiation in summer can induce photoallergic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis. SLE nephritis is more common in women, so young women in particular should avoid lupus-inducing activity factors in summer, such as sun exposure and drugs that easily cause lupus (birth control pills, etc.), while patients with SLE disease should try not to go out in summer. 5. In summer, diabetic patients’ blood sugar is not easily controlled and the kidneys are easily damaged. In summer, fruits and beverages are common foods, and diabetic patients need to be careful when consuming fruits and beverages. Whether it is fruit, or drinks which contain a lot of sugar, if you do not pay attention to the intake is easy to cause blood sugar, and then aggravate the diabetic nephropathy damage. The disease is difficult to treat, and if it continues to progress, it will progress directly to kidney failure. Diabetic patients can selectively eat fruits and vegetables with low sugar content, such as apples, strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers, while fruits with high sugar content, such as bananas, dates and watermelons, are not consumed as much as possible. Fruits should be consumed between meals, and fruit calories should be calculated into the patient’s total daily calorie intake, which means that eating fruits will require a reduction in staple food intake. Patients with poorly controlled blood sugar should not consume fruit as much as possible. At the same time, patients with renal insufficiency are prone to hyperkalemia, and fruit should be relatively limited. 6, more anxious in summer, the incidence and severity of hypertension increases, easy to cause kidney damage Every year, summer is the season when people sleep the least, moreover, the quality of sleep is not as good as other seasons, in summer, people are generally more anxious, which will significantly increase the risk of hypertension and diabetes and other diseases and treatment difficulties, the burden on the kidneys and oxygen consumption will also increase significantly, therefore, hypertensive kidney damage and diabetic Therefore, hypertensive kidney damage and diabetic kidney damage will be our key prevention elements in the next stage, and people who are less careful to monitor blood pressure and blood sugar should pay enough attention to them. Because if blood pressure continues at a high level, it will cause irreversible damage to the kidneys, small blood vessels (retinal arteries), and the heart in a very short period of time, kidney failure due to hypertension and diabetes is now the most important cause of dialysis patients! 7.How do you know if you have kidney damage? In addition to paying close attention to the above, some of the following symptoms or signs may indicate kidney damage: swelling of eyelids, lower limbs and/or body, decreased urine output, hematuria, sudden back pain, unexplained increase in blood pressure and anemia, weakness, nausea or vomiting, urinary urgency, frequency, painful urination, etc. Once the above conditions occur, you need to go to the regular nephrology department immediately to avoid delaying the diagnosis and treatment! If you already have diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome and other underlying diseases, you need to closely observe and nephrology examination, because most of the patients with these diseases will eventually develop kidney lesions!