Reminder: four bad habits hurt the kidneys the most
As a disease with high morbidity and mortality, the early symptoms of kidney disease are very hidden, and many people often get kidney disease unknowingly.
Improper diet, drug abuse, neglect of colds, long-term urine holding and other daily habits are most likely to damage kidney health.
Eat when you want to eat, your kidneys are overwhelmed
Many people’s kidney diseases are unknowingly “eat” out.
The kidneys are an important organ responsible for excreting waste and toxins in the human body. Eating too much salt, too much sweet, too much oil, too much protein will add to the burden of the kidneys, long-term high workload, the kidneys will naturally be prone to disease.
Eating too salty is also likely to trigger high blood pressure. Hypertension is a systemic disease, it and kidney disease is often a “twin sister”. In recent years, the incidence of kidney damage caused by hypertension has been increasing. Therefore, daily life should adhere to a low salt diet, the daily intake of salt should be 5 to 6 grams more appropriate.
Eating too sweet, too oily will not only increase the burden on the kidneys, but also trigger obesity. Obesity will lead to kidney
Fat content increases, weight increases, volume increases, and glomerular hypertrophy. Obese patients are also prone to insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes. About nearly 40% of diabetics develop diabetic nephropathy, which is one of the most difficult kidney diseases to treat.
Eating too much protein can lead to elevated blood uric acid concentrations in the body, triggering hyperuricemia. Elevated blood uric acid concentration is very toxic to the kidneys and can easily cause lesions in the renal tubules and interstitium, eventually developing into chronic renal failure, or uremia.
Take medicine at will, easy to eat the kidney bad
Mr. Wang recently had a cold, headache and nasal congestion, in order to quickly get rid of the suffering of the cold, just take a few tablets of cold medicine at home. After a day to see the symptoms did not ease, he took a few more antibiotics. Unexpectedly, that afternoon, Mr. Wang suddenly felt back pain, and after a while even waist can not straighten up. After being taken to the hospital, doctors diagnosed Mr. Wang with acute nephritis.
Cases of kidney damage due to drug abuse have been common in recent years. Almost every month, the hospital will encounter patients like Mr. Wang who are suffering from nephritis caused by random medication.
Many of the “waste” produced in the body is excreted by the urine through the kidneys, which also includes the metabolites of drugs in the body. Some drugs have significant toxic side effects on the kidneys, including antibiotic drugs such as gentamicin and kanamycin, non-steroidal antipyretics and analgesics, and some compound cold medicines.
Therefore, patients without a clear diagnosis of a febrile infectious cold should not self-administer antibiotic medications. After a cold and fever should not take medicine at will, but under the guidance of a doctor according to their own symptoms correctly. In particular, people with poor kidney function and those already suffering from chronic kidney disease should be more careful with their medication.
In addition to the above-mentioned drugs, long-term use of certain anti-tumor chemotherapy drugs, Chinese weight loss drugs, female contraceptive drugs, etc. can also cause different degrees of kidney damage.
Ignore the cold, the kidney quietly sick
Taking antibiotics indiscriminately once you catch a cold can damage your kidneys, but if you drag your feet and neglect treatment, seemingly non-serious colds and laryngitis can also cause kidney disease.
Infection is also a common factor leading to kidney disease. Acute pharyngitis and acute upper respiratory tract infections can easily cause acute attacks of acute glomerulonephritis or chronic nephritis. Therefore, whenever the weather turns cold or the temperature changes significantly, there is an increase in the number of new kidney disease patients and those with aggravation in hospitals, and many kidney disease patients have a history of cold before the onset of the disease.
It has been found that the onset of acute glomerulonephritis is mostly associated with hemolytic
Streptococcal infection, and the onset of this nephritis has a certain incubation period, patients usually appear the symptoms of nephritis only after the symptoms of the cold have been reduced or subsided. The main manifestations are: hematuria, i.e., cloudy red-brown urine; edema, which mostly appears first on the face, especially outside the eyelids, and in severe cases on the lower extremities, in addition to headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms. Therefore, if the above symptoms appear after a cold, the treatment of acute nephritis must not be neglected.
In addition to common upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, hepatitis and other common infectious diseases can also trigger different types of kidney disease. Director Ding Xiaoqiang suggested that in order to protect the health of kidneys, we should strengthen exercise in daily life, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, improve the body’s immunity, actively prevent colds and flu, and don’t let viruses damage the kidneys.
Be careful of holding urine for a long time to get nephritis
Some insignificant bad habits in daily life can also cause kidney disease.
Miss Zhang usually work very busy, a busy forget to drink water, the toilet is often “delayed again and again”, a long time to develop the habit of holding urine. Last year, the unit organized a physical examination, Miss Zhang found that she had chronic nephritis.
Long-term holding urine is not only easy to cause bladder damage, urine stays in the bladder for a long time is also very easy to cause bacterial reproduction, once the reflux back to the ureter and kidneys, the toxic substances will cause kidney infections, resulting in urinary tract infections, nephritis and even uremia.
Therefore, even if you are busy at work, don’t forget to drink water and go to the toilet on time. Once the habit of holding urine is developed, it will unknowingly affect the health of the kidneys. Kidney diseases often have no special symptoms in the early stage, and many patients regret only when they have an acute attack or when the disease enters an advanced stage.
In addition to regular urine routine and kidney function tests, we should not ignore symptoms such as back pain, edema, change in urine color, increased urination at night, anemia or untreated high blood pressure in our daily life. Once you find these traces of kidney disease, you must seek medical consultation in time.