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In spring, the temperature slowly rises, more people wear short sleeves on the street, more people exercise, and the pace of life seems to start to pick up.
But for patients with kidney disease, when the weather is warm, not only do they have to change their clothes and adjust their diet, but they also have to reconsider their work and daily activities.
Many people think that spring is a good time for health, going out for a walk, getting up early for morning exercise, and eating something nourishing are taken for granted, but for people whose kidney function itself is fragile, this habit of "looking healthy" is likely to be a burden.
When spring is coming and the temperature is getting warmer, what minefield should kidney patients avoid on the hell?
Wake up early and do the exercises
As soon as the weather is hot, many people feel that it is time to "wake up the body", especially the early morning exercise, which seems to have become the standard in spring.
But patients with kidney disease really can't follow others to do this, especially getting up at five or six o'clock in the morning to go to morning exercises, it's just a joke about their bodies.
You see that others are energetic, sweating a little and feeling detoxified, but you don't know that your "amount of exercise" is not exercise at all, but overdraft for the kidneys.
The kidneys are particularly responsible for detoxification and metabolism at night, and they have to wait until after the early hours of the morning to slowly dispose of the "metabolic waste" accumulated during the day.
If you jump up and toss at dawn, and your body has not completely withdrawn from the "night shift mode", the result is that the qi and blood are not concentrated in the kidneys, but are snatched away by the limbs. You think you're exercising, but your kidneys haven't woken up yet.
There was a patient who was a construction worker, who rested honestly all season in winter, and felt that he should "move" in the spring, but he got up early and walked quickly for three days in a row, not to mention the urine protein, and he also had symptoms of backache and nausea.
Studies have also pointed out that in the early morning, the body's blood pressure and heart rate have a "natural rise period", which is a warm-up for healthy people and a blow to kidney patients.
If the kidney function is already strained, and the stimulation of a peak exercise is simply worse.
Wear less clothes
As soon as spring warms up, everyone can't wait to take off their clothes, always thinking about getting rid of the "heaviness" of winter and making it lighter.
But kidney patients really can't do this, especially not to expose the navel, waist or ankle for a long time to cool down.
The kidney's function is not only in metabolism and detoxification, it is also particularly sensitive to cold.
This sensitivity to cold does not mean that your hands and feet are cold, but that the microcirculation of the kidneys themselves is very sensitive, and when it is slightly cold, the blood flow will be reduced, and the efficiency of filtration will decrease.
Moreover, cold stimulation will make the renal arterioles contract, which is reflexive and is the body's "self-preservation" mechanism, but long-term stay in this state will make the kidney function worse and worse.
A courier started to work in single clothes in the spring, and every day the wind blew his waist and shivered, but two weeks later, edema began, and the examination found that the creatinine had risen another notch.
Many people think that wearing less clothes is to exercise hardiness, but in fact, for kidney patients, this is called "tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall".
You seem to be mentally refreshed on the surface, but your body is silently losing yang energy.
Especially in spring, there is a large temperature difference between morning and evening, and it is hot and sweaty during the day and shivering at night, which is particularly the kidneys.
It does not have the function of "regulating temperature", and the result is that cold accumulates directly in the kidney area, slowly causing repeated inflammation, and even making the otherwise stable condition worse.
Studies have found that long-term exposure of the waist and lower abdomen can lead to local nervous tension and abnormal microvascular function, which can affect the blood supply to nephrons. The impact is cumulative, and by the time you find the problem, it's often too late.
Eat wild vegetables to maintain health
Every spring, there is always a wave of people in the circle of friends who begin to show all kinds of "wild vegetable feasts": wontons with shepherd's cabbage, tofu mixed with Ma Lantou, and scrambled eggs with toon.
It seems to be a representative of natural, green, and health preservation, but these things, for patients with kidney disease, are far less "nourishing", and may even directly make the condition recur.
The biggest problem with wild vegetables is not that it is not clean, but that it is too "live", the composition is complex and unstable, and the plant alkaloids and oxalic acid contained in it are easy to react with trace elements such as calcium and magnesium in the human body in the spring season to generate some crystals that are difficult for the kidneys to excrete.
If these crystals are deposited for a long time, they can easily cause kidney stones or aggravate existing kidney damage.
There was a patient who worked in a food factory, because the unit gave a lot of canned wild vegetables, and he ate happily every day, but after a month, the indicators increased across the board, and the urine test found that the crystals were obvious.
Studies have long found that some common spring wild vegetables, such as toon, amaranth, and camellia, have extremely high oxalic acid content, and some are even several times more than spinach.
Normal people should also pay attention to blanching after eating, but many kidney patients don't know about this at all, and after eating a few meals in a row, the kidneys can't excrete these "garbage molecules", and eventually they are blocked there.
Don't think that these dishes are natural and have no side effects, for the kidneys, whether natural or chemical, as long as they can't be metabolized, they are toxins. The kidneys are already fragile, how can they withstand your tossing like this?
Emotions can also hurt the kidneys
Another thing that is easy to overlook in spring is emotional ups and downs.
Many patients with kidney disease will feel inexplicably tired and irritable in the spring, which is not actually hypocritical, but a change in seasonal neuromodulation.
Traditional Chinese medicine says that "spring is the main liver", as soon as the liver qi moves, the emotions are easy to rise, and the kidneys are often the ones who are "passively affected by qi" at this time.
The relationship between the kidney and neuroendocrine is very complex. When people are anxious, insomnia, and depressed, the sympathetic nervous system will continue to be excited, the level of adrenal corticosteroid will increase, the vasoconstriction will increase, and the glomerular pressure will increase, and the result is to accelerate the "overwork" of the nephron.
A patient who was engaged in after-sales customer service was busy with business in the spring, often worked overtime, and was so anxious that he suffered from insomnia, and as a result, his kidney function declined rapidly after a month.
Studies have also pointed out that chronic mental stress will lead to the inhibition of the kidney's self-repair mechanism, which in turn will make the inflammatory response more intense and the disease more unstable.
Many people think that kidney disease is mainly controlled by taking medicine, but in fact, the psychological state also determines the process of recovery.
You see, this spring is a restart for others, but a test for kidney patients.
The warmer the temperature, the more you have to slow down the pace of life, don't rush to welcome spring, but stabilize yourself.
The kidneys will not cry out for pain, they will not call the police, and once something goes wrong, it will be difficult to recover.
It's better to collect it now, don't be greedy for "moving", don't wear "cold", don't eat indiscriminately, and take care of your body obediently, this is really spring, not spring.
The above content is for reference only, if you feel unwell, please consult a professional doctor in time
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