When it comes to diabetes, many people mistakenly believe that it is just a disorder of blood sugar metabolism. As we all know, the harm caused by diabetes is not only so simple as metabolic disorders, but also a variety of complications caused by elevated blood sugar.
Relevant research statistics show that there are more than 100 kinds of complications related to diabetes, including diabetic nephropathy!
The appearance of diabetic nephropathy, like other chronic complications, is caused by a combination of multifactorial effects. This includes long-term poor blood glucose control, genetic inheritance, unhealthy diet, and co-hypertension.
Diabetic nephropathy is one of the most important comorbidities of diabetes mellitus, and in recent years, due to the high incidence of diabetes in mainland China and the poor control of patients' diseases, the incidence rate of diabetic nephropathy in mainland China has also shown an increasing trend. Not only that, diabetic nephropathy has become the second leading cause of end-stage renal disease after various types of glomerulonephritis.
Moreover, due to the existence of complex metabolic disorders in diabetic patients, once they develop to the stage of renal failure, it is often more difficult than the treatment of primary kidney disease, and the patient's condition is poorly controlled. Nearly 10% of patients who die from diabetes are caused by kidney disease. Therefore, timely prevention and treatment is of great significance to delaying the sugar kidney.
So the question is, what should diabetics do to stay away from uremia?
1. Blood sugar control treatment
Diabetic complications, as the name suggests, are lesions based on long-term poor blood glucose control, and the more patients with unstable blood sugar, the greater the chance of complications.
Good blood sugar control can reduce the incidence of type 1 diabetes complicated by kidney disease by about 50%, and the chance of type 2 diabetes with kidney disease by 1/3.
Therefore, if you want to control blood sugar, the first thing patients have to do is to actively cooperate with the doctor to control blood sugar treatment, in the case of poor drug control, if necessary, insulin therapy should be injected, and with daily diet, exercise and life adjustment, so that blood sugar control is within the normal range;
2. Control blood pressure
Patients with diabetes mellitus may coexist with hypertension during the development of the disease. Although hypertension is not directly related to the sugar kidney, once the patient has hypertension, especially in diabetic patients who have developed to the stage of microalbumin urine, once the blood pressure exceeds the standard, it may accelerate the progression of the sugar kidney, promote further deterioration of kidney function, and aggravate the excretion of urinary albumin.
Therefore, diabetic patients should pay attention to monitoring blood pressure, after the diagnosis of hypertension, need to be actively treated according to the doctor's recommendations;
3. Avoid urinary tract infections
Diabetic patients are affected by high blood sugar, often relatively poor resistance, organs are susceptible to pathogen invasion, and the course of the disease is easy to repeat, such as urinary tract infection is one of them.
Relevant studies have shown that recurrent urinary tract infections can accelerate the development of sugar kidney disease. Therefore, diabetics should try to avoid urinary tract infections, pay attention to private cleanliness, maintain at least 1500ml of water intake every day, and do not hold urine.
In addition to doing the above points, diabetics should also improve their awareness and vigilance against sugar kidneys. During the development of the disease, patients need to monitor microproteuria regularly, which is an important marker for early diagnosis and reversal of diabetes.
Once microproteuria abnormalities are found, patients should communicate with their doctors in a timely manner to see if further treatment is needed to avoid the development of sugar kidneys to the point of irreparability.