The powerful and magical kidneys human kidneys are very powerful and magical, and people’s health is closely related to these functions.
1. The functions of the kidneys include.
Removing waste and excess fluid, maintaining the balance of fluids and chemicals in the body, removing drugs and poisons from the body, releasing important hormones to help regulate blood pressure, produce red blood cells and keep bones healthy.
2. Which groups of people need to be alert to kidney disease.
Patients with diabetes; patients with hypertension; patients with edema; patients with gout (hyperuricemia), urinary stones, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple myeloma, etc.; obese people; people who smoke; people with a family history of diabetes, hypertension or kidney disease; people over 50 years old.
3.What tests can screen for kidney disease.
Urine routine, blood pressure measurement, serum creatinine, kidney ultrasound and other tests can help to detect chronic kidney disease at an early stage.
4.Early detection and treatment.
The importance of early detection and treatment of kidney disease will slow down or stop the process of chronic kidney disease to avoid premature development to the uremic phase.
5.What are the main factors that accelerate the progression of chronic kidney disease.
Hypertension, proteinuria, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, high-protein diet, infection, and drug abuse.
6, easy to be ignored routine urine examination routine urine in the clinic is a preliminary examination can not be ignored:.
Many kidney lesions can appear in the early stage of proteinuria or in the urine sediment with fractions. Once urine abnormalities are detected, it is often the first indication of kidney or urinary tract disease and is often an important clue to the nature of the pathological process. Routine urine examination includes urine color, clarity, pH, red blood cells, white blood cells, epithelial cells, tubular type, protein, specific gravity, urinary sugar characterization, urinary ketone bodies, urinary bilirubin, urinary bilirubin, etc.
7.How to protect the kidney.
① Keep warm in winter: The survey found that in winter, kidney function deteriorates much more than other seasons, mainly because of vasoconstriction in low temperature, blood pressure rises, urine volume decreases, and blood coagulation becomes stronger, which makes kidney problems easy.
② Do not take drugs indiscriminately: many commercially available painkillers, cold medicines and herbal medicines have kidney toxicity, do not eat without a doctor’s prescription, antibiotics and painkillers prescribed by doctors should also know what their side effects are.
③ Do not overeat: eating too much protein and salt will increase the burden on the kidneys. In addition, sports drinks contain extra electrolytes and salt, so people with kidney disease need to be careful with these drinks.
④Treating colds: If you have a cold that comes and goes, or if you have high blood pressure, edema, or bubbles in your urine after a cold, it is best to see a nephrologist for a screening test.
⑤ Be careful with recurring tonsillitis: when the throat or tonsils are infected with streptococcus, make sure to eradicate it, otherwise it will easily lead to kidney inflammation.
Drink plenty of water and do not hold urine: urine is retained in the bladder, just as bacteria tend to multiply when the sewer is blocked, and they can infect the kidneys via the ureter.
(7) Control diabetes and hypertension: poorly controlled blood pressure and diabetes for too long will cause vascular sclerosis, and the kidneys are made up of millions of microvascular spheres, poorly controlled blood sugar and blood pressure, the kidneys will break down quickly.
⑧ Do not drink well water and river water of unknown composition: so as not to damage the kidneys by heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and chromium that are too high.
⑨ urinary tract stones to deal with: stones do not hurt does not mean well, especially ureteral stones can easily cause hydronephrosis, long down, the kidneys will be completely damaged without knowing.
⑩Regular checkups: It is best to do urine and blood creatinine and urea nitrogen checkups every six months. The kidney burden will increase when a woman is pregnant, and kidney function should be monitored so as not to become uremic due to pregnancy toxemia.
8.What treatments are available for uremia?
The main means are: hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, kidney transplantation; auxiliary means are: blood pressure lowering, blood supplementation, calcium supplementation, blood lipid lowering, diuretic, Chinese herbal medicine treatment.