In modern medicine, the kidney is the body’s organ in charge of metabolism. Once damaged, various problems throughout the body will come to your door.
What do people with poor kidneys look like?
In the eyes of traditional Chinese medicine, the kidney covers the functions of multiple systems such as reproduction, urinary, and nerves. In Western medicine, the kidney is an organ of the body, which has the functions of producing urine, expelling metabolic waste, and regulating the balance of water, electrolytes, and acid-base.
The kidneys are responsible for the metabolic needs of the whole body. Once the metabolic waste in the human body cannot be excreted, it will threaten life directly.
Don’t look at the kidneys usually not going on strike or crying tired, but it may be “slightly injured but not under fire” and insist on working with illness.
Symptoms such as anemia, nausea, and fatigue will only occur when the renal function is destroyed by more than 75%. In order to find the “distress signal” of the kidney early, don’t ignore these clues in your life.
Eyelid swelling
Eyelid swelling is a warning sign written on the face. The kidneys are responsible for water and fluid metabolism. If you find swollen eyelids or feet in the morning, you should consider kidney problems.
Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite
The end stage of kidney disease can affect gastrointestinal function, causing nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite.
Urine bubbles
If the urine turns red, or there is a layer of fine foam floating on the surface of the urine that does not disappear easily, you should go to the nephrology department for examination.
Changes in urine output
Normal people urinate about 1000 to 2000 ml per day. Increase or decrease in urine output may be caused by kidney disease.
Itchy skin
When the kidneys are not good, urea cannot be excreted through urine, but will be excreted through the skin, irritating the skin and causing itching.
Headache, fatigue, poor sleep
Headache, fatigue, memory loss, poor sleep, etc. are mostly caused by nephropathy and hypertension.
Some of the above signs of kidney disease occur in the early stage, and some are already in the late stage. Therefore, it is not enough to judge whether your kidneys are healthy based on symptoms alone.
We must pay attention to physical examination, especially the elderly and high-risk groups suffering from hypertension, diabetes, abnormal blood uric acid and other diseases.
9 types of people are prone to kidney problems
In layman’s terms, any kidney injury or renal function decline for 3 months or more can be regarded as chronic kidney disease.
People at high risk of chronic kidney disease should take precautions, and the following categories of people should be extra vigilant.
Patients with hypertension
Long-term hypertension can cause glomerular ischemic sclerosis, increased nocturia, increased urinary albumin excretion, and severe renal function decline.
Therefore, patients with high blood pressure must take antihypertensive drugs as prescribed by their doctors and have regular kidney tests.
Diabetic
Uremia caused by diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of new dialysis every year. Patients often present with edema, massive proteinuria, impaired renal function, and often have multiple complications.
Diabetes patients must strictly control blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood lipids, and regularly check urine albumin/creatinine in order to detect signs of kidney disease and intervene early.
Overweight and obese people
Obesity not only harms health, but also increases the burden on the kidneys and causes obesity-related nephropathy.
People with a history of hepatitis
Hepatitis can cause hepatitis B-related nephritis and hepatitis C-related nephritis. Such patients should pay attention to screening for virus replication, liver function, and urine routine.
Patients with autoimmune diseases
Autoimmune diseases are diseases caused by the body’s immune response to autoantigens and damage to autologous tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis, vasculitis, etc.
Patients suffering from autoimmune diseases are prone to cause nephropathy of related diseases, such as lupus nephritis.
People with long-term medication history
Drug-induced renal damage is more common in clinical practice and attention should be paid to it. Long-term use of Chinese medicines containing aristolochic acid, aminoglycoside drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and certain weight-loss drugs may cause renal tubules due to qualitative fibrosis, taking these drugs for a long time and in large quantities must be alert to renal damage.
Low birth weight during preterm delivery
Under severe infection, drug overdose or acute stress, such people and people with a history of kidney disease have a higher risk of kidney damage than normal people.
People with repeated urinary system infection
Patients with kidney stones or enlarged prostate, repeated urinary system infections, and hydronephrosis due to obstruction are also people at high risk of kidney disease.
People with certain bad habits
Smoking, heavy drinking, staying up late, high-intensity fitness + large amounts of protein powder, long-term use of whitening products, frequent tattoos and hair dyeing, sleep apnea syndrome, hyperuricemia, and more than 50 years old with multiple diseases, people with a history of cancer have a higher risk of kidney disease.
6 details to raise a good kidney
Quit smoking and drinking
Smoking affects the blood supply to the kidneys, reducing blood flow into the kidneys will impair kidney function.
Alcohol can also damage the kidneys. If you drink beer with a high-protein diet, it will easily lead to increased purines, hyperuricemia, and gout.
Control diet
Avoid overeating, especially high-protein diets, which will increase the burden on the kidneys and lead to the accumulation of body poisons and metabolites.
Eat more fiber-containing foods
Eating more foods with high fiber content such as vegetables will help smooth stools and prevent food from staying in the stomach and intestines for too long, decomposing too much toxins and being absorbed into the body, affecting kidney health.
Maintain a good metabolic level
Control blood pressure, blood sugar, uric acid, body weight and other metabolic levels to avoid high blood sugar, high blood lipids and other conditions from causing damage to the kidneys.
Especially with age, this damage will be more obvious.
Beware of drug damage
Kidney damage caused by drug abuse is very common, and you need to be especially careful with antipyretic analgesics, aminoglycoside antibiotics, and Chinese medicine containing aristolochic acid.
Maintain proper exercise
Maintaining proper exercise and maintaining good resistance and immunity are very important for kidney protection and recovery from kidney disease.
There is no limit to the exercise mode of healthy people, and it is enough to ensure 30 minutes of exercise every day 5 days a week.
People with abnormal kidney function or kidney disease should remember to change clothes as soon as possible after sweating to avoid colds and other infections.
People with severe kidney disease can choose gentle exercises such as walking and Tai Chi according to their own conditions.
Patients with acute nephritis are advised to stay in bed and not move temporarily.
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