Three major issues that uremic patients must take seriously

  I am a uremic patient. It has been seventeen years since I discovered my kidney disease and started hemodialysis in 1992. During these 17 years of dialysis, I have suffered from hypertension, anemia, heart failure and other diseases from time to time, just like most uremic patients, and I was hovering on the edge of life and death. I am under the guidance of the doctor clinging to the three major difficulties of anemia, infection, hypertension, so that I can safely survive to the present, which is entirely thanks to a deeper knowledge and understanding of anemia, infection, hypertension, I will now limit our long-term survival of uremic patients anemia, infection, hypertension, the three major problems raised, I hope that the long-term survival of the majority of uremic patients have some help: a. Anemia  Anemia in uremic patients is caused by a combination of factors. One of the main reasons is the severe kidney damage on both sides in chronic renal failure, resulting in a significant decrease in erythropoietin. In order to correct the anemia, I insisted on EPO treatment twice a week for a long time under the guidance of my doctor, along with adequate iron and folic acid supplements, thus keeping me alive with the basic needs and sustaining me for a long time.  Infections Uremic patients with low immune function are prone to infections, especially lung and urinary tract infections. Once the infection is not handled in a timely manner or not taken seriously, it will induce heart failure and other occurrences, seriously endangering life, such examples in our uremic patients are not uncommon, so our uremic patients once found to have an infection, under the guidance of the doctor to correctly and timely put down the infection, so as not to endanger our lives.  Third, hypertension Uremic patients more or less suffer from a certain degree of hypertension, hypertension can aggravate the heart, brain, kidneys and other organs of the damage, correct and prevent hypertension is an important issue that we uremic patients should not underestimate. From my experience in the past few years, we must pay attention to correcting hypertension: ① Reasonable and effective selection of antihypertensive drugs is the key; ② Participate in appropriate physical exercise is the guarantee; ③ Ensure sufficient sleep and quit smoking and alcohol is the means; ④ Insist on reasonable salt and water intake to avoid water retention in the body, increasing the load on the heart and endangering life.  Anemia, infection, and hypertension are the 3 main problems for the long-term survival of the majority of uremic patients. We hope we can all pay attention to it and recognize it, so as to help us improve the quality of survival and prolong the survival time.