The Manifestation Of Kidney Disease In Daily Life And How To Prevent It

As the saying goes, a good kidney is a good body! The kidneys are in charge of the body's water transportation, and every day our kidneys have to clean up about 150 liters of body fluids. How to take care of such an important organ and how to solve problems? On the occasion of "World Kidney Day", People's Health Network's "Kidney Health" column, this issue introduces you to the knowledge of kidney disease, together with you to the end of health!

Eight signals indicate kidney disease

Clinically, many kidney disease patients who come to the hospital for the first time are already very sick, and the treatment effect is also poor, so chronic kidney disease is known as the "silent killer". Despite this, kidney disease can still reveal itself. Common abnormal signs include the following.

1. Puffy eyelids or lower extremities: The kidney causes impaired water-electrolyte regulation, resulting in increased sodium and water accumulation in the laxest tissues or lowest parts of the body, such as eyelids or lower extremities.

2. Headache, fatigue, memory loss, poor sleep: Kidney disease manifested as headache, fatigue, memory loss, poor sleep, etc., mostly due to combined hypertension, especially young people with unexplained elevated blood pressure should be alert to kidney disorders.

3. Foamy urine: when the increase of protein and urine sugar in the urine can appear foamy urine, the surface of the urine floats a layer of fine foamy, is not easy to disappear, should be alert to proteinuria; if the foam is larger, disappear very quickly, should be alert to whether the urine sugar is elevated.

4. Changes in urine volume: normal people have slow metabolism after going to sleep, and night urine is significantly less than daytime urine volume, and they should not urinate at night or only once, and the amount of night urine is about 1/4 to 1/3 of the total amount of 24 hours if it is often more than 2 times, and the night urine is more than the daytime urine volume, it may indicate renal insufficiency.

5. Abnormal urine examination: If the routine urine examination is positive for protein or occult blood, it may be asymptomatic proteinuria or asymptomatic hematuria, and urine protein quantification or urine bitewing microscopy should be done promptly.

6. Combination of other diseases: many diseases are prone to kidney damage, such as hypertension, diabetes, gout, and polycystic kidney, and patients who already have these diseases should have regular urine examinations.

7. Anemia: Patients with chronic renal insufficiency of moderate degree or above are often combined with anemia, weakness, dizziness, pallor, and other symptoms, which are often caused by the decrease of erythropoietin secretion by the kidneys due to renal insufficiency. Therefore, when unexplained anemia occurs, in addition to considering blood system diseases, the presence of kidney diseases should be checked.

8. Loss of appetite: Early uremic patients often show loss of appetite, nausea, and itchy skin. Therefore, patients with these symptoms, especially those with combined hypertension and anemia, must have their kidney function checked.

Nourish the kidneys, from 6 points

Since the kidneys and our brain are closely related, it is crucial to nourish the kidneys in order to have a good memory and quick thinking. We suggest that the daily life of the kidneys is worth starting from the following aspects.

1、Food therapy with a focus

Dietary therapy for kidneys should be based on the different conditions of Yin deficiency, and Yang deficiency selection of food. The kidney Yin deficiency should be "clear", such as lean pork, duck, black beans, mung beans, winter melon, mulberry, yam, jellyfish, etc. The actual spicy and warm food is not as much as possible. The people who are deficient in kidney yang eat some mutton, venison, leeks, and other warm kidney aphrodisiac foods.

2, lifestyle to be healthy

Weight control, regular work and rest, do not stay up late, quitting smoking and avoiding alcohol, and drinking an appropriate amount of water and other elements are essential. At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that "movement is the Yang", the process of the kidney, and the amount of exercise is particularly indispensable. Walking, jogging, playing Taijiquan, and doing gymnastics are good choices. Because the functional activities of the limbs are governed by the liver and kidneys, appropriate physical exercise can help activate the yang of the liver and kidneys, nourish the tendons and bones, open the veins and activate the chakras, enhance resistance, and achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and kidneys.

3、Medicinal recipes

Lily and lotus seed soup: fresh lily 30 grams, lotus seeds 30 grams, wolfberry 15 grams, a little rock sugar, slow stewing until cooked, has the role of kidney nourishing yin, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. Six sons for kidney soup: leek seeds,cistanche seeds, Schisandra seeds, raspberry seeds, and wolfberry seeds 15 grams each, with 200 grams of cistanche, add water, together into the pot decoction, and take the juice warm, one dose a day, has the effect of tonifying the kidneys and fixing the regimen.

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4, common medicines for kidney protection

At present, the Chinese medicine to strengthen the kidney is divided into two categories: nourishing kidney yin and warming kidney yang, of which the commonly used nourishing kidney yin medicine are Shu Di, yam, Dendrobium, Wolfberry, tortoiseshell, etc.; warming kidney yang are Epimedium, Cistanches, bone marrow, walnuts, etc. In addition, in clinical practice, there are many proprietary Chinese medicines, which are commonly used to tonify the kidneys, including a variety of pharmaceuticals made of Cistanches.

5, acupressure points

Chinese medicine believes that the waist is the capital of the kidney. There are many acupuncture points in the waist, such as the life-gate point, kidney point, waist Yang Guan point, waist eye point, etc. You can often press or tap the lumbosacral region, rub both sides of the waist, and move the waist and buttocks, once a day in the morning and once in the evening, to warm the kidney yang, lumbar spine, and meridians. Usually, when walking, using the back of both hands to press the kidney area, can relieve the symptoms of lumbago.

6, abstinence

It should be reminded that the maintenance of kidney essence should pay attention to abstinence. Don't have sex too early, frequent masturbation before marriage, and indulge in sexual desire after marriage, will deplete the kidney essence.

New findings on kidney health

With the advancement of medicine, new research findings related to the kidneys continue to emerge. The most important thing is that you will be able to get the best out of your kidneys. The Institute of Pharmacology in Milan, Italy, found that people who ate 35 slices of bread a week (an average of 5 slices a day) had twice the risk of kidney cancer as those who ate 11 slices a week (an average of about 1.5 slices a day). Gaining weight before the age of 36 is associated with a high risk of kidney disease. The University of London Medical School found that people who started to be overweight at the age of 26 to 36 had a 1 times higher risk of developing kidney disease in the future than the norm, and also higher than people who started to be overweight at the age of 60 to 64.

Eat citrus to protect the kidney. Royal Holloway University, the University of London, and Kingston University joint study found that eating citrus fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, oranges, and lemons helps block the formation of kidney cysts and has a protective effect on the kidneys. Drink some red wine and reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease by 30%. The University of Colorado researchers found that, compared with those who do not drink red wine, drink some red wine every day (less than 1 cup), the risk of chronic kidney disease is 37% lower; in patients with chronic kidney disease, drink some red wine every day (less than 1 cup) the risk of cardiovascular disease, 29% lower than those who do not drink. Researchers analyzed that higher levels of urine protein can affect kidney function, and moderately drinking red wine can reduce urine protein levels.

Walking is a good medicine for kidney disease. Loughborough University conducted a comparative study on the association between walking and health in two groups of patients with chronic kidney disease. The results found that more walking can enhance the immune system's ability to fight infection, but also reduce inflammation in the body, thus benefiting kidney health.

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