Often friends will come to ask, I have bad kidneys, how should I usually eat? What should I eat to replenish? There are not many reliable things to tonify the kidneys, but there are many habits that hurt the kidneys. Some bad habits, some people will repeat many times a day, for example – smoking. Numerous studies have confirmed that smoking hurts the kidneys The nicotine content of tobacco, as well as cadmium, lead and other heavy metal elements, will cause serious damage to the kidneys. If you already have hypertension, diabetes, chronic glomerulonephritis, etc., patients who smoke are more likely to experience kidney function damage, and will also enter the uremic state more quickly. Smoking 5 cigarettes a day increases the risk of elevated blood creatinine by 31% over 3 years compared to non-smokers. The incidence of chronic kidney disease is significantly higher when the cumulative number of cigarettes smoked exceeds 25 packs per year. In addition, smoking also causes hyperplasia and sclerosis of renal arteries, which indirectly leads to ischemia and hypoxia of kidneys, accelerating the course of kidney disease and requiring patients to start dialysis treatment earlier. In short, smoking increases the risk of developing kidney disease and its progression, no matter whether you are an ordinary person or a patient who already has kidney disease. Think about how many cigarettes you smoke a day? How much damage has been done to your kidneys? For kidney disease patients, quitting smoking can reduce the amount of urine protein and slow down the progress of kidney function deterioration. And after quitting smoking, those damages mentioned above will naturally cease to exist, and the kidneys will also work hard for your organism in a healthy environment. In addition to being good for the kidneys, there are many other benefits of quitting smoking. Within 24 hours of quitting smoking, you can experience a drop in blood pressure and heart rate. 2. Within 6 months of quitting smoking, the values of risk parameters for cardiovascular diseases are reduced and arterial stiffness is improved. 3. Quit smoking for 1 year, the risk of coronary heart disease will be reduced by 50%. 4. The mortality rate of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will decrease by 32% to 84%. Smoking cessation and kidney protection start from regular medical checkups Smoking cessation requires regular medical checkups to strengthen patients’ awareness of their own health, and the most important point to protect kidneys is also regular medical checkups. It is recommended that ordinary people, once a year physical examination, focusing on checking urine and creatinine. In addition to smoking will hurt the kidneys, the following there are several types of practices are also prone to kidney weakness. 1, often stay up late people Now stay up late a lot of people, especially young people, there are too many reasons to support them to stay up late, such as heavy workload, the need to work overtime to complete the work; the need to socialize, it is difficult to work during the day time, the long night to provide a rare opportunity; obsessed with soccer, the ball game is more than the night; favor the Internet, watch blockbusters, play games … … … night after night, day after day late to sleep, for a long time there will be dark circles under the eyes, mental fatigue and other health problems, once the yin essence is too much depletion, will be overworked and hurt the kidneys, causing many chain reactions. 2, long-term mental tension, life stress people Work, life stress, mental long-term tension, easy to make the body’s resistance to a significant decline in the human body in the face of wind, cold, summer, moisture, dryness, fire, and other external environment, “six obscene” infringement becomes too weak to hurt the kidneys hurt body. At the same time, “labor is gas consumption”, excessive exertion so that the human body consumes too much essence, naturally hurt the kidneys, resulting in kidney deficiency. 3, frequent smokers and drinkers Smoking hurts the lungs, which is a basic common sense.” The lungs are the main gas, the kidneys are the root of the gas”, the lungs control the inhalation, the kidneys control the gas, in terms of breathing, the lungs and kidneys are mutually reinforcing, mutually coordinated. At the same time, the yin liquid between the lungs and kidneys also nourishes each other, and lung yin deficiency can injure kidney yin, leading to kidney deficiency. Therefore, smoking is very harmful to the kidneys. In addition, drinking hurts the liver, and the liver and kidney are the same source, the liver hides the blood, the kidney hides the essence, the fullness of the kidney essence depends on the nourishment of the liver and blood, the liver is damaged, naturally, it will affect the kidney, so, frequent drinking is also not conducive to the maintenance of the kidney. 4, long time sitting still people long time sitting still, the human abdominal cavity under great pressure, abdominal and lower body blood circulation is impeded, the whole body of the human qi and blood operation will be implicated. In addition, the kidney meridian and the bladder meridian phase table, sitting for a long time will oppress the bladder meridian, resulting in the bladder meridian qi and blood run poorly, bladder dysfunction, thus triggering the kidney function abnormality, the so-called “sedentary injury to the kidneys,” this is the reason.