Chronic kidney disease (CKD) refers to chronic renal structural and dysfunction (history greater than 3 months) due to a variety of causes, including pathological damage to normal and abnormal renal GFR, abnormal blood or urine composition, and abnormal imaging tests, or an unexplained decrease in GFR for more than 3 months. Diseases that cause chronic kidney disease include a variety of primary and secondary glomerulonephritis, tubular damage, and renal vascular lesions.
At different stages of chronic kidney disease, its clinical manifestations also vary. Before stage 3 of chronic kidney disease, patients may be asymptomatic or have only mild discomfort such as fatigue, waist acid, and increased nocturia; a small number of patients may have loss of appetite, metabolic acidosis, and mild anemia. After the 3rd stage of chronic kidney disease, various symptoms become more obvious, and after entering the renal failure phase, they are further aggravated. Sometimes hypertension, heart failure, severe hyperkalemia, acid-base balance disorders, gastrointestinal symptoms, anemia, mineral bone metabolism abnormalities, hyperparathyroidism and central nervous system disorders can occur, and even life-threatening.
Experts say that most of the symptoms of chronic kidney failure in the early stage are relatively insidious, because the kidneys have a very strong compensatory capacity, and generally minor damage basically does not feel change. Some patients develop nonspecific symptoms such as anorexia and fatigue when the kidney disease progresses to a certain extent, and some patients develop eyelid edema when they wake up in the morning, and edema of both lower limbs after sitting for a long time, which resolves after activity. This can give the impression that symptoms that may be caused by excessive sleep or sedentary are usually ignored, and other patients may also have night sweats, urinary volume, and increased nocturia, which are manifestations of early chronic renal failure and should be vigilant.
Men develop chronic kidney failure, and Traditional Chinese medicine uses 3 flavored worms to protect residual kidney function
Case: Patient xxx, male, 34 years old, usually in good health, nothing abnormal. After a few days after a cold, it did not get better, the medicine did not work, vomiting, edema, foamy urine and other symptoms appeared, went to the hospital for medical treatment, checked and found that urine protein (+++), blood creatinine value increased by 366umol/L, was diagnosed as chronic kidney failure. Western medicine treatment was started, and after a period of time, the index did not change significantly.
Later, I heard that the indicators were not well controlled, and it was likely that the disease would develop, and if it reached the uremia stage, it could only be dialysis or transplantation. So I began to find ways to treat it to suppress kidney damage and protect residual kidney function. Later, he learned that traditional Chinese medicine can treat kidney disease, and accompanied by his family, he went to Beijing to seek medical treatment.
In the TCM outpatient clinic of a hospital, TCM saw patients with pale faces, self-reported dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and forgetfulness, fatigue and nausea, and bitter mouth. Tongue examination, dark tongue color, yellow tongue, indicating that the symptoms of blood stasis damp fever are obvious. Chinese medicine is distinguished by deficiency of qi and blood, damp and hot stasis. The formula includes: dilong, cicada, leech, leech, baishu, gardenia, peran, skullcap, Sichuan root, peach kernel, banxia, motherwort, salvia, hot rhubarb and other traditional Chinese medicines, decoction, with Western medicine, dietary regulation.
After 2 months of re-examination, dizziness and tinnitus symptoms disappear, nausea and fatigue symptoms are alleviated, oral bitterness symptoms are alleviated, urinary urine protein (+) is rechecked, and the serum creatinine value is 244umol/L, indicating that the prescription is effective. Following the 3-month follow-up treatment, the physical symptoms disappeared, the patient's tongue improved, and the urinalysis urinary protein (-) was reviewed, and the serum creatinine value was 153umol/L. He continued to use traditional Chinese medicine to consolidate treatment for half a year, and the outpatient follow-up patients recovered well, regularly reviewed, blood creatinine control was stable, kidney function was stable, and daily work was resumed.
Expert comments: Kidney disease often has blood stasis and other hypercoagulable states, blood flow is not smooth, kidney ischemia may aggravate kidney damage, Chinese medicine to activate blood stasis, qi and blood run around the body, the five organs to nourish, the systemic functional state can be improved. However, it should be noted that the single drug of Chinese medicine is not a prescription, the single drug is difficult to take effect alone, most of it is compatible to take effect, each person's situation is different, the compatibility is different, the medication is different, and it is necessary to use drugs under the guidance of professional doctors.
There are many kinds of Chinese medicines, and many insects are also medicinal herbs for the treatment of diseases. Some insect drugs are used in the treatment of kidney disease, which helps inhibit kidney damage, delay kidney damage, and protect kidney function. Among them, there are 3 types of insect drugs that are more used.
1. Earth Dragon. Also known as earthworm, it is one of the important Chinese herbal medicines, and its main effects are to clear heat and calm shock, tongluo, asthma and diuresis. Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": it has the ability to activate the meridians, activate the blood and dissolve the stasis. For patients with congestion-blocking nephropathy, Dilong can activate blood stasis, improve blood flow in the glomeruli, delay glomerular arteriosclerosis, inhibit kidney damage, and protect renal function.
2. Cicadas degenerate. Sweet, salty, cool; return to the lungs, liver meridians, the main effect is to evacuate wind and heat, sharp pharyngeal open sound, diaphragm, blind retreat, calm wind and stop spasm. Modern research has found that cicada metamorphosis can reduce blood endothelial hormones, reduce free radical release, reduce capillary endothelial cell damage, reduce proteinuria, protect kidney function, and delay kidney damage.
3. Leeches. The sexual taste is salty and bitter, attributed to the liver and bladder meridians, and the main effect is to break the blood and stasis, and to activate the meridians. Clinical studies have found that leeches can reduce FRA deposition in the glomeruli, increase renal blood flow, improve renal microcirculation, delay kidney damage, and protect renal function.
These behaviors can damage the kidneys and accelerate kidney failure
1. Indiscriminate use of Chinese herbal medicine that hurts the kidneys. Clinically, taking certain Chinese herbal medicines (including proprietary Chinese medicines) can cause damage to kidney function. The common Chinese herbal medicines that hurt the kidneys are: Lei Gong Teng, Guan Mu Tong, Morning Glory, Cang Er Zi, Poppy Shell, Raw Grass Wu, Junzi, Aoki Xiang, Guang Fang Zi and so on. Among them, the kidney damage caused by triptolide is the largest, followed by Guan Mu Tong, and the reason why Guan Mu Tong injures the kidney is that it contains the nephrotoxic substance aristolochic acid.
2. Abuse of analgesic drugs. Long-term use or large doses of some anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, such as pain tablets, indomethacin, paracetamol, aspirin, etc., can easily cause kidney damage. Renal impairment may manifest as fatigue, dry mouth and tongue, loss of appetite, frequent urination, urgency, dysuria, and even hematuria and sterile pusuria, accompanied by symptoms such as joint pain. Some can directly cause nephrotic syndromes such as acute nephritis or glomerular necrosis, and in severe cases, they can lead to kidney failure and death.
3. Often hold urine. Some people hold their urine for a long time because they are busy at work. Urine in the bladder for too long can easily multiply bacteria, which retrograde through the ureter to the kidneys, leading to urinary tract infections and pyelonephritis. These infections are prone to recurrence, can cause chronic infections, and are not easily cured. Patients may not only have symptoms such as back pain and frequent urination, but may also develop acute uremia.
4, drink too little water. If you do not drink water for a long time, the amount of urine will decrease, and the concentration of waste products and toxins carried in the urine will increase. Common clinical kidney stones, hydronephrosis, etc. are closely related to not drinking water for a long time. Drinking plenty of water dilutes urine, protects the kidneys, and facilitates the adequate elimination of waste products and toxins.
5. Overeating. There are many delicious foods, and excessive food will eventually produce waste uric acid and urea nitrogen. Most of this waste product is excreted by the kidneys, and eating indiscriminately will undoubtedly increase the burden on the kidneys.
6. Excessive drinking. Excessive intake of soft drinks and sports drinks can indirectly damage the kidneys. The pH in the human body is 7.2, these drinks are generally highly acidic, and the pH in the body changes significantly after drinking. The kidneys are the main organs that regulate the pH in the human body, and long-term excessive intake of soft drinks and sports drinks will bring a burden to the kidneys and increase the probability of kidney damage.
7. Eat too much fluffy bread. There is a food additive potassium bromate in bread and pastries, which gives the gluten strength and elasticity necessary for baking food, and it tastes soft and soft. However, excessive consumption can damage a person's central nervous system, blood and kidneys.
8, the diet is too salty. In particular, the salt content of some snacks is too high, which will make people unconsciously absorb excessive salt, resulting in an increase in blood pressure, and the kidney blood cannot maintain normal flow, thus inducing kidney disease.
9. Drink strong tea after drinking. Some people think that drinking strong tea after drinking alcohol can relieve alcohol, but in fact, this is not only ineffective, but also hurts the kidneys. Theophylline in tea can quickly affect the kidneys and exert a diuretic effect, at this time alcohol has not had time to decompose and then excrete from the kidneys, so that the kidneys are stimulated by a large amount of ethanol, thereby damaging kidney function.