The mainland is a big country with chronic kidney disease.
According to recent epidemiological data sources, chronic kidney disease has become one of the major diseases threatening human health, with about 120 million kidney disease patients on the mainland, with a prevalence of up to 10.8%.
The most critical thing is that kidney disease has also begun to gradually become younger.
Staying up late for a long time to smoke, the 22-year-old boy was diagnosed with uremia
Recently, according to media reports: a 22-year-old boy in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, recently had a cold, always felt that his chest was tight and short of breath, so he had to go to the hospital for treatment.
It was found that renal ultrasound B had shown atrophy of both kidneys, and the disease had progressed to the stage of chronic renal insufficiency uremia, which required dialysis for treatment.
After analysis, the doctor found that this young man had never done relevant examinations before, and usually not only smoked, but also often stayed up all night to play games, so this may be the most important factor in the deterioration of the kidneys.
Chronic kidney disease continues to develop, and it is uremia
The damage caused by chronic kidney disease to the kidneys is irreversible, there is currently no way to completely cure, the patient's kidney function gradually declines, eventually leading to kidney failure, the formation of uremia.
Fortunately, if chronic kidney disease can be treated and cared for scientifically and effectively, it can delay the development of the disease, and can also prevent the occurrence of uremia and enable patients to live a normal life.
What can be done to prevent chronic kidney disease from turning into uremia?
1. Actively treat primary diseases
Clinically, many diseases can induce kidney disease, and the rate of decline in kidney function is also different for different primary diseases.
If it is diabetic nephropathy, the speed of disease progression is relatively fast, and it is necessary to strictly control blood sugar to avoid damaging kidney function.
Nephritis caused by lupus erythematosus, even if the condition is more serious, may be restored to partial function after active treatment, and treatment must not be abandoned.
2. Avoid infection
Kidney disease patients themselves have poor resistance and poor nutritional status, and such patients are more susceptible to the invasion of external germs and cause infection.
Bacterial infection is a fatal blow to patients with kidney disease, due to infection, can cause water, electrolyte disorders, thereby more serious damage to the kidneys, aggravate proteinuria, edema and other symptoms, but also can accelerate kidney function decline.
3. Stay away from nephrotoxic drugs
Whether it is a normal person or a patient with chronic kidney disease, in life should be away from nephrotoxic drugs, such as anti-inflammatory analgesics, antibiotic drugs, if the cause of the disease must be used, it should also be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, and must not be blindly used.
4. Prevention and treatment of complications
With the progression of chronic kidney disease, it can cause complications such as anemia, cardiovascular disease, bone disease, and metabolic acidosis.
For these complications, on the basis of prevention, it must be treated in time, and for patients with anemia, iron supplementation and injection of erythropoietin can be given.
For metabolic acidosis, medications such as sodium bicarbonate can be given. In the case of bone disease, calcium and vitamin D preparations can be given.
5. Develop good living habits
In addition to actively treating the disease, patients with chronic kidney disease should also pay attention to the conditioning of living habits.
In terms of diet, a low-salt, high-quality low-protein diet should be the mainstay, and the intake of seafood, soy products and potassium should be appropriately controlled.
Usually, it is necessary to actively exercise, control the weight within a reasonable range, and strictly quit smoking and alcohol, which is of great help to the protection of kidney function.
6. Regular review
It is generally recommended that patients with chronic kidney disease go to the hospital once a year for renal function examination, and if the body is unwell, the time of examination should be shortened.
Regular re-examination can grasp the changes in the condition in time, and can also be treated early to prevent the aggravation of the disease.
Patients with high blood pressure need to protect their kidneys
According to epidemiological studies, chronic kidney disease caused by hypertension has become the second or third cause of uremia in developed countries.
It should be known that the kidney itself is a kind of excretory organ, and the blood of the whole body will carry various metabolic wastes through the kidneys, filtering excess water, ions, metabolic wastes, etc. into urine and excreting them.
Therefore, the kidneys are full of blood vessels, and once the blood pressure is raised, the blood vessel wall will gradually become thicker and thicker, which will prompt the vascular cavity to become narrower and narrower.
And narrowing the habit is not only not conducive to the discharge of metabolic waste, but even the basic kidney blood supply can not be guaranteed, the kidney will appear ischemic atrophy, and then will develop uremia.
Therefore, for patients with hypertension, not only do they need to go to the hospital regularly to receive various indicators in addition to the usual control of blood pressure.