Dialysis may delay your condition

With the growth in living standards over recent years, more and more people get kidney diseases. However, many patients have not received the proper and efficient treatments, which leads to Renal Failure and Uremia finally. So they have to do dialysis or kidney transplant.

However, during long-term dialysis, many complications will appear, such as dialysis disequilibrium syndrome including headache, fidget, nausea, vomiting, increase in blood pressure, even twitch and coma. Also Cardiovascular Complications can appear, such as arrhythmia, pericarditis, cardiac tamponade, heart failure, high blood pressure, cerebral hemorrhage and so on. Some patients may get hypotension which is also dangerous. The kidneys of patients wither gradually while doing dialysis.

Dialysis increases the difficulty and cost of treatment and makes obvious damages to systemic organs and some of the damages are irreversible. Also dialysis can cause many severe complications, which makes the quality of life worse and the life time of patients short.

In some countries like Canada, Saudi Arabia, they have the good health system, the native can do dialysis free of charge. So many patients have been doing dialysis for many years, even though they are uncomfortable and suffer from the complications. It seems that they never think of finding a way to get rid of dialysis totally, as a matter of fact, lots of patients' kidney function becomes worse and worse because of dialysis, that is because dialysis can make kidney function worse to some extent. Also some patients will choose kidney transplant. But kidney transplant also isn't a completely safe way, for patients who receive kidney transplant have to take the anti-rejection medicines and other kinds of medicines. After receiving kidney transplant, there still have the possibilities that the kidney gets lesion. Both dialysis and kidney transplant are not the way to treat kidney disease from the root, because they don't focus on the damaged kidney tissues and cells. And some patients' conditions could have treated or gotten rid of dialysis or reduced the frequency of dialysis.

If I have high level creatinine, what kinds of foods should I avoid eating

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Once your creatinine rises, besides knowing about the associated knowledge about the problem, you are suggested to make a reasonable diet as for your specific conditions. Next the expert from Beijing United-Tech Nephrology Specialist Hospital introduce to us what kinds of foods are good for our health and what kinds of foods we should avoid eating.
In the early stage of the renal disease, the serum creatinine level usually doesn’t increase, but it does as the glomerular filtration function decreases half or less than 50 percent. Therefore, the creatinine level can not sensitively reflect the renal damage status in the early stage of the disease. However, once your creatinine level has been found to be continuously rising, it indicates the prognosis is very serious. At the moment, you’d better pay more attention to your diet. Since your renal glomerular fails to filter the toxin and other waste products like the creatinine out of your body, the creatinine build up in your blood and it may cause tremendous damage to your body as its increasing accumulation in your body. If you eat something that is not good for your health, your disease condition may get worse or even lose your life just because of your improper diet.
What kinds of foods should not to be eaten? Generally speaking, you are should keep low-salt diet, and no more than 3gram salt intake is better. The foods high in potassium should avoid to be eaten in case of hyperkalemia. This kind of foods includes potatoes, celery, beans and beans products and bananas and so on. The foods high in protein are also not better for your health, for the excess of the protein intake may put more extra pressure on your kidneys. But it doesn’t mean you are not allowed to eat a few of protein at all. Due to the decrease of the renal function, some of the protein that should stay in the blood is removed out of the body, so you need to eat something to make up for the loss of the protein. Limited high quality protein intake is necessary for your health and egg white，fish, lean and milk are suitable for your diet. At last, you’d better keep a low-fat diet. You’d better not to eat some fried or greasy foods abundant in saturated fatty acid, for it would get the renal function worse than before.
This is what we suggest for your diet, hoping to help you. If you still do not know how to arrange your diet, please consult our experts. We are always ready to help you.

If I have high level creatinine, what kinds of foods should I avoid eating

Once your creatinine rises, besides knowing about the associated knowledge about the problem, you are suggested to make a reasonable diet as for your specific conditions. Next the expert from Beijing United-Tech Nephrology Specialist Hospital introduce to us what kinds of foods are good for our health and what kinds of foods we should avoid eating.
In the early stage of the renal disease, the serum creatinine level usually doesn’t increase, but it does as the glomerular filtration function decreases half or less than 50 percent. Therefore, the creatinine level can not sensitively reflect the renal damage status in the early stage of the disease. However, once your creatinine level has been found to be continuously rising, it indicates the prognosis is very serious. At the moment, you’d better pay more attention to your diet. Since your renal glomerular fails to filter the toxin and other waste products like the creatinine out of your body, the creatinine build up in your blood and it may cause tremendous damage to your body as its increasing accumulation in your body. If you eat something that is not good for your health, your disease condition may get worse or even lose your life just because of your improper diet.
What kinds of foods should not to be eaten? Generally speaking, you are should keep low-salt diet, and no more than 3gram salt intake is better. The foods high in potassium should avoid to be eaten in case of hyperkalemia. This kind of foods includes potatoes, celery, beans and beans products and bananas and so on. The foods high in protein are also not better for your health, for the excess of the protein intake may put more extra pressure on your kidneys. But it doesn’t mean you are not allowed to eat a few of protein at all. Due to the decrease of the renal function, some of the protein that should stay in the blood is removed out of the body, so you need to eat something to make up for the loss of the protein. Limited high quality protein intake is necessary for your health and egg white，fish, lean and milk are suitable for your diet. At last, you’d better keep a low-fat diet. You’d better not to eat some fried or greasy foods abundant in saturated fatty acid, for it would get the renal function worse than before.

This is what we suggest for your diet, hoping to help you. If you still do not know how to arrange your diet, please consult our experts. We are always ready to help you.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term condition where

CKD is common and mainly associated with ageing. The older you get, the more likely you are to have some degree of kidney disease.
It is estimated that about one in five men and one in four women between the ages of 65 and 74 has some degree of CKD.
CKD is more common in people of south Asian origin (those from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan) and black people than the general population. The reasons for this include higher rates of diabetes in south Asian people and higher rates of high blood pressure in African or Caribbean people.
Read more about black health and south Asian health.
Treating chronic kidney disease
There is no cure for chronic kidney disease, although treatment can slow or halt the progression of the disease and can prevent other serious conditions developing.
People with CKD are known to have an increased risk of a stroke or heart attack because of changes that occur to the circulation.
In some people, CKD may cause kidney failure, also known as established renal failure (ERF) or end-stage kidney disease. In this situation, the usual functions of the kidney stop working.
In order to survive, people with ERF may need to have artificial kidney treatment, called dialysis.

Read more about treating chronic kidney disease.

Treatments for Kidney Lesions

Some patients are told by doctors after lab tests to have kidney lesions in their kidneys. Kidney lesions is the areas of abnormal tissues in or on the kidneys. Some are very obvious while others not. And patients are unaware of it until they are told by their doctors after they do ultrasound tests. Also there are numerous possible causes for this too. Identifying the cause of a lesion is important for determining a course of treatment.

For the obvious cases, the most common cause is trauma, which, in some severe cases needs surgery. However, the precise locations also matter much for the treatment options too.

And the other unobvious cases may have some uncomfortable experiences, like latent pain, occult blood in urine, etc. And they know their problems through ultrasound tests or uranalysis. The common causes include renal tumor, kidney cysts, infection especially chronic infection which can lead to renal scarring or kidney damage. Referring to tumor, we all know there are two types, the malignant and benign. In order to identify this, a renal biopsy is usually carried out. And the treatment for malignant renal tumor needs evaluating. And here at present, chemotherapy, some other traditional Chinese medicine therapies are applied to improve patient’s life quality and prolong their lifespan. And the benign cases is not cancerous, however, may also cause some damage to the kidneys. Reducing the compression by the tumor or mass to tissues around it and protecting the kidney function from being affected by the compression is the right method to deal with this kind of condition.

Well, the treatment for scarring caused by chronic infection depends. Generally speaking, treatment should focus on treating the infection and preventing the chronic infection from damaging more tissues. Besides, reversing those tissues under damage is also very important for protecting their kidney function.

There are also other reasons for developing kidney lesions, like glomerular disease, tubular disease, etc. One thing we need to mention is that at present, most western medicine is effective in controlling the symptoms and delaying the progress of kidney disease. However, little is focusing on reversing the kidney damage or repairing those tissues under damage. In terms of this aspect, traditional Chinese medicine is a better treatment option in this respect.

Well, what’s the cause for your kidney lesions? And more specific treatment options can be offered if you tell us more specific information about your condition. Please contact our online doctors or call us for further specific information.

Is exercise beneficial the kidney patients?

The glomerulonephritis is one of the common kidney diseases. With the improvement of the living quality, the morbidity of it is increasing. The experts point out the nursing is also quite important except the effective treatment. What should the patient pay attention to?

Some of the patients refuse all the out door activities completely, or even worse, they stay in bed for all the time and are cared by the relatives. Unfortunately, these behaviors will only worsen the patients’ situation. For the purpose of a better disease control, staying in bed is not a wise choice. Is it beneficial that the patient take some exercise?

It is said that life lies in movement and it is the movement that motivate the life. There is a proverb going “flowing water never decays, door pivot never rots”, which explains that exercise can strengthen the human’s immunity. The exercise can enable both the normal people and patients more healthy, so it is also suitable for the kidney patients. From the aspect of the disease causes, there are obstacles in the blood circulation and the blood become more sticky, and then the blood flowing become slower, at last the blood supply to the kidney reduces. According to the traditional Chinese medicine, exercise can help the blood cleaning and reduce the obstacles in it.

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Be cautious of a Bite of Kidney Diseases

With the increasing health consciousness of people,many families will prepare medical kits for themselves. Various kinds of medicines in the Drug Store can benefit residents on the one hand,but on the other,all medicines have their side effects,some drugs may contain renal toxic ingredients and without proper intake drug-induced kidney diseases can be caused. This article discusses several kidney damaged drugs and hopes readers be cautious of a Bite of Kidney Diseases.
Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug(NSAID)
NSAID has been one of the most commonly used drugs,which has been widely used in the treatment of osteoarthritis,rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic autoimmune diseases. It can also be applied in the relief of fever and aches. Frequently used medicines of this kind are aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid,ibuprofen,indometacin and phenylbutazone. It the NSAID is used in a small dose in a short time,the side effects are low;otherwise renal function damage can be resulted in. The elderly and kidney disease patients who are at a high risk should avoid use of NSAID or choose other alternative medicines directed by a physician. People who take NSAID for long should do regular examination of renal function.
Antibiotics
Because of easy access to antibiotics in the Drug Stores,many patients who are suffered with cold,fever and urinary tract infections will take them at random even without learning instructions. However,excessive dosage and long duration may lead to kidney damage and seriously acute allergic intestinal nephritis occurs since patients are allergic to antibiotics,and those patients will often be diagnosed with albuminuria,blood urine and renal dysfunction. Medicines such as aminoglycoside,quinolones,tetracycline,rifampin and aktisol-weiss are often used in the clinical and may lead to kidney damage. These medicines should be used with caution especially for those who already have kidney diseases.
Antihypertensive drugs such as “captopril”and “sartan”
These drugs are antihypertensives and have been proved to be effective in reducing albuminuria and postponing kidney damage,they are often adopted in treating kidney diseases. However,this kind of medicines can reduce GFR,when the serum creatinine level is more than 265 μmol/L,abnormal rise of serum creatinine can be induced. If the range of serum creatinine is increased by more than 30% when the drugs are used for 2 to 4 weeks,and renal ischaemia occurs,the medicines should be stopped timely. Besides,when such drugs and non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs are used jointly,the chance of renal injury is greatly increased. This drug is contraindicated in patients with low blood pressure,severely diarrhea,heavy vomiting and double renal artery stenosis.