Chronic renal failure should be treated aggressively

  A patient with chronic renal failure in the outpatient clinic, after a year of treatment, his blood creatinine has dropped from 500umol/l, to 180umol/l. At first, he was a person who was about to be on hemodialysis, but now, he is stable in all aspects and only needs to take medication for a long time. He himself is very happy, and we doctors are also very happy. While being happy, I feel that it is necessary to write an article to say to patients who have chronic renal failure, so that they can be treated actively in the early and medium term and not to miss the possible opportunity.  Chronic renal failure is a progressive kidney damage and gradual deterioration of kidney function caused by various primary kidney diseases or secondary to other diseases. When the kidney function damage develops to the extent that it cannot maintain the balance of the body’s internal environment, it will lead to the accumulation of toxic metabolites in the body, the disturbance of water and electrolyte and acid-base balance, and a series of clinical syndrome symptoms. The main manifestations are edema, hypertension, nausea, vomiting, gum and nasal bleeding and other multi-systemic symptoms. In the early stage, there can be no sensation, but when it develops to the end stage, symptoms such as oliguria, edema, shortness of breath, and panic will appear, requiring renal replacement therapy (mainly hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and renal transplantation).  In the early and middle stages of the disease, because the symptoms are not typical, many people do not notice the discomfort and ignore the treatment. In fact, intervention and treatment in the early and middle stages of chronic kidney failure will slow down the deterioration of kidney function and delay the time to enter renal replacement therapy. Even, some people are able to restore normal kidney function.  There are more reasons affecting kidney function, and one of our previous clinical observations found that hypertension, infection, urinary tract obstruction, and hyperglycemia are the main risk factors affecting kidney function. When you have chronic renal failure, you can actively seek medical treatment for these risk factors, which can protect your kidney function.  Chinese medicine is the traditional medicine of China, for chronic renal failure, the use of Chinese medicine evidence-based treatment, according to different types of evidence-based treatment, on the one hand, can play a role in protecting the righteousness, on the other hand, can resolve dampness, blood circulation, remove metabolic products in the body, so as to adjust the balance of the body’s yin and Yang. It can stabilize the kidney function.