The incidence of kidney disease is increasing, and some common chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, may lead to abnormal kidney function, and even uremia and kidney failure, which bring heavy economic and mental burdens to patients and families.
In order to draw attention to kidney health, the International Society of Nephrology and the International Kidney Foundation have decided to designate the second Thursday of March as World Kidney Day from 2006 onwards.
In the early stage of kidney function abnormalities, if timely treatment, there is a great possibility to avoid the development of kidney failure. Therefore, we should pay attention to our kidney function and not wait until there are obvious problems before mending.
Now, let’s talk about the relationship between various abnormalities of urine and kidney health.
The problem of urine is not necessarily a problem of kidney
When it comes to “kidney deficiency”, in addition to a poor sex life, people often think of frequent urination, nocturia, hematuria, but these are really not necessarily kidney problems.
Frequent urination and nocturia
In fact, infection, mental and emotional abnormalities are common causes of frequent urination, in men, prostate problems, also account for a large part. Kidney problems are really not the main cause of frequent urination.
Like urinary tract infections, prostate problems resulting in frequent urination, if you take timely measures to actively deal with the symptoms when they first appear, the basic impact on kidney function is not significant. However, if left untreated, over time, it will also have an impact on kidney function.
Hematuria
Simply put, hematuria is the presence of blood in the urine. This is further divided into two cases, naked eye hematuria, you can see blood in the urine which means there is more bleeding; and there is blood found when urine test is performed.
Most cases of hematuria in the naked eye are due to urinary tract infections and stones. In addition, in the younger population, abnormalities in the development of the urinary system such as kidneys and ureters are the most common causes, and possibly tumors.
In the senior population, if you have flesh-eye hematuria, you must beware of tumors and go to the hospital for timely examination, especially if you do not feel painful flesh-eye hematuria.
Sometimes, hematuria that can be seen with the naked eye may also be a manifestation of other diseases in the urine, so remember to look at them after advocating urination and defecation before flushing the toilet.
If blood is found in the urine during the urine test, it should also be treated actively according to the doctor’s advice.
More foam in urine is bad kidney?
For doctors, protein in urine is the indicator most closely associated with the kidney, and under normal circumstances, there should be no protein in urine.
When blood flows through the kidneys, the kidneys act like a filter, filtering out the excess water, waste, etc. to form urine. The things that are filtered out are small molecules, that is, smaller in size.
Protein is much bigger, and under normal circumstances, there is no way to pass through the filter, the kidney, and it is left in the blood.
Therefore, once there is protein in the urine, most of the problems are with the kidneys, the “filter”.
However, for everyone, the presence of protein in urine is invisible to the naked eye. Many people have heard that “a lot of foam in urine may be proteinuria”.
It is possible, but most of the foamy urine is not protein urine. If there is always a lot of foam and it doesn’t go away for a long time, it is best to go to the hospital to check if there is protein in the urine.
However, there are many times that proteinuria is not foamy, so when kidney problems occur, it is rarely noticeable in the early stage, and once the patient feels the problem, it is often more serious.
How to protect our kidney?
Control chronic diseases
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes can damage kidney function if they are not well controlled. Some people think that antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs will “hurt the kidneys”, so they are always very squeamish about taking them. In fact, in the doctor’s opinion, there are very few kidney diseases caused by antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs, but most of them are caused by refusal to take the drugs and poor control of blood pressure and blood sugar, which damage the kidneys. Timely treatment of related diseases Although nocturia and hematuria are not necessarily caused by kidney in addition to problems, but if not actively treated, over time, it will also affect kidney function.
Regular check-ups
There are some chronic kidney diseases that are related to heredity, and if there are close relatives in the family with chronic kidney diseases, it is more important to pay attention to them.
If necessary, you can have some checkups, such as the early screening of chronic kidney disease carried out by Dingxiang Clinic, which not only can understand the current kidney function of patients, but also allow doctors to determine the high or low risk of kidney disease according to the test results, and according to the different characteristics of each person, develop the next checkups to achieve the purpose of early detection and early treatment. From the maximum extent to avoid the occurrence of serious kidney function abnormalities.