The kidney is an important excretory organ of the body. A healthy person excretes 1000-2000 ml of urine every day. To protect the kidneys, we should pay attention to the following points.
First, live a regular life and combine work and rest. Although many kidney diseases have their own causes, irregular life is also one of the causes. The human body is an organic whole, if life is not regular, the body’s resistance decreases, germs will take advantage of the people, making the kidneys sick. Therefore, whether we are mental or physical work should not be overloaded, there should be relaxation, pay attention to the combination of work and rest. Second, exercise to enhance physical fitness. Many diseases such as cold and fever are harmful to the kidneys. Usually pay attention to physical exercise, so that the body’s organs are strong and healthy, can enhance the ability to resist disease, the kidneys also have an important protective role. Third, we should actively prevent and control various infectious diseases, especially pay attention to control streptococcal infections and recurrent local infectious lesions. Such as tonsillitis, scarlet fever, septic skin disease, etc. Fourth, we should be careful about the damage of drugs to the kidneys. No matter what kind of drugs have side effects, they can bring different degrees of harm to the body. Drugs in the human body must go through the body’s metabolic process, which puts a different degree of burden on the kidneys. Generally drugs damage the kidneys in three main ways: direct toxicity, destruction of immune mechanisms, and pharmacological obstruction. Therefore, the selection of drugs should be appropriate, and drugs that damage the kidney should be avoided as much as possible. Cheng Genyang, Department of Nephrology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University In his clinical work, Dr. Cheng Genyang often encountered some patients who came to the clinic with kidney function damage that had progressed to advanced uremic syndrome and regretted it too late. Therefore, you should recognize some clinical manifestations related to kidney disease, and don’t forget to do the examination about kidney when the above symptoms occur. 1.Increased frequency of urination, inability to hold it in, pain in urethra. That is, doctors often say that the frequency of urination, urinary urgency, painful urination, this symptom often suggests the possibility of urinary tract infection. 2, blood in the urine: can be the clinical manifestations of acute and chronic nephritis, but also can be caused by urinary tract infection. 3, urine bubbly: often indicates an abnormal increase in the excretion of protein in the urine. 4.Puffy eyelids and swollen lower limbs: the increase of protein in the urine when suffering from nephritis makes the plasma protein in the body drop, followed by puffiness. 5, too little or too much urine: If there is no large amount of sweating, fever and other reasons for the reduction of fluid components in the body, the occurrence of a sudden decrease in urine volume, to see a doctor to check the urine to confirm the presence of kidney disease, the same steep increase in urine volume, you should also look for the cause of the increase in urine volume. 6, back and abdominal pain: back and back pain without a clear cause should go to the hospital to check the kidneys, spine and back muscles and other conditions to clarify the cause. 7.Increased nocturia: When normal people are younger than 60 years old, they should generally not have nocturia. If the amount of nocturia increases in young people, it can be an early clinical manifestation of kidney malfunction, which should especially attract attention. 8, renal failure performance: early renal failure can also be the same as kidney disease without special clinical symptoms, until the kidney function lost more than 50%, then some clinical manifestations may appear, when the kidney function is only 5-10% left, the patient is at an advanced stage, the clinical symptoms of uremia, including pallor, lethargy, poor nausea, vomiting, skin itching, especially confusion, coma, etc.. Once clinical symptoms such as elevated blood pressure, anemia, poor appetite and nausea, increased nocturia and itchy skin appear, do not easily think that you are suffering from “hypertension”, “iron deficiency anemia”, “indigestion” or skin diseases. “It is necessary to pay attention to urine examination and kidney function measurement so that the diagnosis will not be misunderstood.