11 March 2021 marks the 16th World Kidney Day, and this year's theme is "Living Well with Kidney Disease"
At present, the incidence of kidney disease is getting higher and higher, China reaches 120 million people with chronic kidney disease, the early start of generally no obvious symptoms, once found will develop in the middle and late stages, and even uremia, so chronic kidney disease is known as "silent killer". The kidneys are important organs of the human body, with the function of discharging waste products, regulating water and electrolyte concentrations in the body, regulating acid-base balance, and endocrine functions. There are many kinds of bad diet and living habits in daily life that constantly hurt the kidneys, but these habits are not noticed by you. Many friends have asked me, since the incidence of kidney disease, which lifestyles in life need to be paid attention to, and today I specially sorted it out.
Overly salty
Friends in Taizhou area, morning tea likes to eat pickled vegetables, pickled radish, pickled fish and other pickled products. These things have a relatively high salt content. Kidney is the main organ that excretes salt from the human body, if too much salt is consumed for a long time, on the one hand, it will increase the risk of suffering from high blood pressure, on the other hand, it will increase the burden of sodium excretion by the kidneys; plus the sodium ions in the salt will cause water retention in the body, aggravate edema, and more seriously, destroy kidney function and induce the occurrence of kidney disease. In addition, patients with kidney disease should not eat low sodium salts, because low sodium salts contain a large number of potassium ions, which can lead to hyperkalemia after impaired kidney function, with serious consequences.
Recommendation: In daily life, you should adhere to a diet with less salt and less seasoning, and eat less pickled foods; the salt intake per day should be more appropriate at 5-6 grams.
Meat is preferred, especially processed meat
Generally, friends without kidney disease do not require a low-protein diet, but a large number of high-protein foods for a long time will make the kidneys in a continuous high-load state and increase the burden on the kidneys.
At the same time, eating a large amount of meat can lead to hyperlipidemia, erode blood vessels, lead to a decrease in blood supply to the kidneys, and aggravate kidney damage. For patients with renal failure, it is necessary to strictly limit protein intake to reduce the burden on the kidneys.
Recommendation: Try to have less meat and more vegetarian meat, chicken, pig or fish meat, choose one or two dishes.
Friends with kidney failure should pay more attention to the intake of high-quality protein, reduce the intake of plant protein, mainly lean meat, milk, eggs, soy milk, do not eat nuts and soy products such as humus, tofu and soy.
I love to eat foods that are too oily and too sweet
Eating too much too oily and too sweet food can easily lead to obesity; and obesity increases the burden on the kidneys, which in turn produces kidney disease.
And obese people often have high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides, which also increases the burden on the kidneys. Studies have shown that obesity is also an important factor in the occurrence of kidney disease.
Recommendations: Eat a light diet, eat less sweets, and eat less animal fats or fried foods. Usually, when stir-frying, put less oil and eat less fat meat.
Don't like to drink water
Many friends will drink less water because of work or habit problems, and even some friends will think that this can reduce the burden on the kidneys, but as everyone knows, the kidneys are responsible for regulating the balance of water and electrolytes in the body and the waste products generated by physiological activities, and are discharged from the urine, and the adequacy of water is a necessary condition to ensure these functions.
Drinking too little water for a long time not only increases the concentration of toxins in the urine, the body waste is discharged, but also concentrates the substances in the urine to produce stones or urinary tract infections.
Recommendation: drink water adequately, drink about 1600-2000 mL of water per day, but people with cardiovascular disease or kidney disease, cirrhosis caused by edema, should not drink more water, generally the daily water intake is the previous day's urine volume plus about 500 mL, the elderly avoid drinking more water at night, so as not to affect sleep.
Loves drinks
People who like to drink carbonated drinks and sports drinks, the pH of the body will change, and the kidneys are also the main organs that regulate the pH in the human body, if long-term excessive intake, it will increase the burden on the kidneys and improve the chance of kidney damage.
Recommendation: Drink less drinks and drink more boiled water.
Purine-containing foods are preferred
Eating seafood and drinking beer is a major pleasure in life, but if you eat a lot of purine-containing foods for a long time, it is easy to accumulate uric acid in the body, resulting in the occurrence of gout, and the deposition of uric acid crystals in the kidney will also lead to damage to kidney function.
Recommendation: animal offal, chicken, duck and fish meat, seafood, broth with higher purines, usually to eat in moderation, for friends with high uric acid should eat less or even not eat.
Move less and sit still
At present, with the improvement of quality of life, sedentary, less movement is not conducive to good health, prone to metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc., these diseases have certain damage to the kidneys, early complications may not be obvious, to the later stage will lead to damage to the heart and kidneys and other organs. Therefore, life lies in exercise, but exercise should be gradual and varies from person to person, avoid strenuous exercise, at least 5 times a week, at least 30 minutes each time is appropriate.
Recommendations: walking, brisk walking, small steps jogging, etc., the elderly are recommended to go to the plastic track venue to avoid joint strain.
Holding back urine
Many friends will have the habit of holding urine because of their work, thinking that holding back for a while is not a big deal. However, it is not known that long-term holding of urine will lead to renal pelvis, ureteral dilation, and increased pressure in the kidneys, resulting in impaired kidney function.
In addition, the expansion of the renal pelvis and ureter leads to the growth of bacteria after hydrostatic water, resulting in urinary tract infections.
Recommendation: Drink more water and urinate frequently is an important principle of kidney maintenance, do not drink less water, and do not urinate less.
Loves bread pastries
Some breads and pastries are usually supplemented with flour modifier "potassium bromate", which is not only whiter and more beautiful, but also has a softer and more elastic taste, but long-term consumption or eating too much will damage the kidneys.
Recommendation: Do not buy too soft, elastic bread, pastries, the aroma is too strong is not a natural wheat flavor, but also eat less.
Take the medicine indiscriminately
If you are sick and take medicine blindly, the doctor prescribes the medicine to increase the amount at will, and there is nothing to take some medicine, which must be very common among the people around you. However, in patients with acute renal failure, nearly half of them are caused by long-term, overdose, especially anti-inflammatory drugs, painkillers, health care products and so on.
Suggestions for improvement: it is a three-point poison of the drug, take the drug carefully, take the medicine regularly, listen to the advice of professional medical staff if you are sick, and should regularly test the kidney function.
Source: Jiangsu Police