If people want to have a long life, normal kidneys are the key points. But
what should we do to protect our kidneys in daily life? The expert will give us
some suggestions:
1. The diet should be light and digestive. Don’t eat too much food with high
proteins and sodium; appropriately control the salt and protein intake. The
recent research indicates that excessive salt is a risk factor for many
diseases, especially the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It is
considered in Traditional Chinese Medicine that in five flavors (sour, sweet,
bitter, hot and salty), the salt passes through the kidneys. The proper salt can
nourish the kidneys, but excessive salt will injury them. The ideal salt intake
is 6 g/d. High protein diet can speed up the kidney damage, especially for elder
people.
2. Don't drink much water. The daily urine volume should be about
1500-2000ml. and the plain boiled water is advocated.
3. Quit smoking and drinking
4. Avoid infection. For elder people with kidney insufficiency, once they
have infection, they will appear further kidney injury, and even threat life. So
elder people should strengthen the daily exercise and prevent all kinds of
infection.
5. Have a regular physical examination, especially urine test, kidney
function test, because early detection will be helpful for treating all kidney
diseases.
6. Try to avoid using or just use less renal toxin drugs. The common renal
toxin drugs include: gentamicin, streptomycin and such aminoglycoside
antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis rifampin, sulfonamides and contrast medium.
People should try to avoid using them. If it must be used, people should be
under doctor’s guidance. And people should try to avoid or reduce contacting the
renal toxin.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
What Factors Will Lead to Lupus Nephritis?
Lupus Nephritis is a kind of serious kidney disease which not only affects
body function, but also threat patients’ life. What factors will lead to Lupus
Nephritis? The expert in Beijing Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital Dr. Liu Jing Duo
gives us some explanation.
He said that the factors include:
1. Heredity: heredity plays a decisive role in Lupus Nephritis onset, and it is the most primary cause. Patients may have family history and relative has a high risk of occurrence.
2. Sex hormone: because this disease affects more female than male, and commonly occurring in lactation period, female hormone is related to Lupus Nephritis. About 50% female patients’ condition is worsening due to pregnancy.
3. Psychological Factors：Psychological stress can trigger the disease being active, and it is also a possible cause which is resulting in Lupus Nephritis. However, stress for individuals’ response is influenced by individual’s quality, personality and stressful life practice’ intense, persistence and frequency.
4. Environmental factors: 1. Infection; 2. Stimulating immune system.
5. Medicine and decayed food may also lead to Lupus Nephritis.
The expert points out: Lupus Nephritis is a serious disease. If detecting it, patients should go to hospital as soon as possible. Otherwise it will threat patients’ life.
He said that the factors include:
1. Heredity: heredity plays a decisive role in Lupus Nephritis onset, and it is the most primary cause. Patients may have family history and relative has a high risk of occurrence.
2. Sex hormone: because this disease affects more female than male, and commonly occurring in lactation period, female hormone is related to Lupus Nephritis. About 50% female patients’ condition is worsening due to pregnancy.
3. Psychological Factors：Psychological stress can trigger the disease being active, and it is also a possible cause which is resulting in Lupus Nephritis. However, stress for individuals’ response is influenced by individual’s quality, personality and stressful life practice’ intense, persistence and frequency.
4. Environmental factors: 1. Infection; 2. Stimulating immune system.
5. Medicine and decayed food may also lead to Lupus Nephritis.
The expert points out: Lupus Nephritis is a serious disease. If detecting it, patients should go to hospital as soon as possible. Otherwise it will threat patients’ life.
Kidney Disease Examination -- Ultrasound B
Ultrasound B is a kind of equipment which is using ultrasonic transmission
technology and ultrasonic image diagnosis technology. It applies to ultrasonic
reflection theory. It has been popular to use Ultrasound B check kidneys in
clinical practice. It has the advantages of no damage, and safe application. It
can display renal capsula, parenchyma, pelvis and such tissues and structures.
In addition, it can accurately locate kidney position and measure kidney size,
judge the tumor in or out kidneys, as well as cystic lesion. When patients check
kidneys, there is no special preparation. Currently, the Ultrasound B can find
the following problems:
1. Observing kidney size, shape and location, measuring the thickness of renal cortex and medulla, as well as echo intensity: when the kidneys are normal, the shape and size are normal, and the echo of renal cortex is even; when kidneys appear diffuse and material lesion, the echo may be abnormal. Ultrasound B can also differentiate Acute and Chronic Kidney Failure.
2. Diagnosing Kidney Cysts and Hydronephrosis: Because ultrasound has a strong reflection for fluid, in the Ultrasound B screen, the fluid will show even gray. If patients have cysts and hydronephrosis, through Ultrasound B, it can find the size and numbers of cysts and the degree of hydronephrosis.
3. Differentiating kidney mass: through Ultrasound B, the mass is less obvious than hydronephrosis, but the size, numbers and location of tumor is better.
4. Transplanted kidney: it is a ideal method to check kidney condition with Ultrasound B after kidney transplantation. For example, the sudden kidney enlargement indicates acute rejection; the capacity of pelvis and calyce increasing indicates obstruction; at the late period, patients appearing blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine increasing and kidney enlargement indicates rejection; kidney shrinking indicates kidney atrophy.
5. Kidney stone: If patients have kidney stone, it can find that spot or mass echo and sound shadow at the back in the screen of Ultrasound.
6. Congenital kidney adnormality: such as unilateral kidney agenesis, ectopic kidney, double kidney, horse-shoe kidney and kidney dysplasia, all these abnormalities can show different characteristic ultrasonic images.
7. Kidney puncture positioning: through Ultrasound B, it can look for the ideal puncture point and deepth, also observe whether there is bleeding after puncturing. So, all kidney biospies are processing with the help of Ultrasound B, which can guarante the safety of kidney biopsy.
1. Observing kidney size, shape and location, measuring the thickness of renal cortex and medulla, as well as echo intensity: when the kidneys are normal, the shape and size are normal, and the echo of renal cortex is even; when kidneys appear diffuse and material lesion, the echo may be abnormal. Ultrasound B can also differentiate Acute and Chronic Kidney Failure.
2. Diagnosing Kidney Cysts and Hydronephrosis: Because ultrasound has a strong reflection for fluid, in the Ultrasound B screen, the fluid will show even gray. If patients have cysts and hydronephrosis, through Ultrasound B, it can find the size and numbers of cysts and the degree of hydronephrosis.
3. Differentiating kidney mass: through Ultrasound B, the mass is less obvious than hydronephrosis, but the size, numbers and location of tumor is better.
4. Transplanted kidney: it is a ideal method to check kidney condition with Ultrasound B after kidney transplantation. For example, the sudden kidney enlargement indicates acute rejection; the capacity of pelvis and calyce increasing indicates obstruction; at the late period, patients appearing blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine increasing and kidney enlargement indicates rejection; kidney shrinking indicates kidney atrophy.
5. Kidney stone: If patients have kidney stone, it can find that spot or mass echo and sound shadow at the back in the screen of Ultrasound.
6. Congenital kidney adnormality: such as unilateral kidney agenesis, ectopic kidney, double kidney, horse-shoe kidney and kidney dysplasia, all these abnormalities can show different characteristic ultrasonic images.
7. Kidney puncture positioning: through Ultrasound B, it can look for the ideal puncture point and deepth, also observe whether there is bleeding after puncturing. So, all kidney biospies are processing with the help of Ultrasound B, which can guarante the safety of kidney biopsy.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
What Factors Will Lead to Lupus Nephritis?
Lupus Nephritis is a kind of serious kidney disease which not only affects
body function, but also threat patients’ life. What factors will lead to Lupus
Nephritis? The expert in Beijing Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital Dr. Liu Jing Duo
gives us some explanation.
He said that the factors include:
1. Heredity: heredity plays a decisive role in Lupus Nephritis onset, and it is the most primary cause. Patients may have family history and relative has a high risk of occurrence.
2. Sex hormone: because this disease affects more female than male, and commonly occurring in lactation period, female hormone is related to Lupus Nephritis. About 50% female patients’ condition is worsening due to pregnancy.
3. Psychological Factors：Psychological stress can trigger the disease being active, and it is also a possible cause which is resulting in Lupus Nephritis. However, stress for individuals’ response is influenced by individual’s quality, personality and stressful life practice’ intense, persistence and frequency.
4. Environmental factors: 1. Infection; 2. Stimulating immune system.
5. Medicine and decayed food may also lead to Lupus Nephritis.
He said that the factors include:
1. Heredity: heredity plays a decisive role in Lupus Nephritis onset, and it is the most primary cause. Patients may have family history and relative has a high risk of occurrence.
2. Sex hormone: because this disease affects more female than male, and commonly occurring in lactation period, female hormone is related to Lupus Nephritis. About 50% female patients’ condition is worsening due to pregnancy.
3. Psychological Factors：Psychological stress can trigger the disease being active, and it is also a possible cause which is resulting in Lupus Nephritis. However, stress for individuals’ response is influenced by individual’s quality, personality and stressful life practice’ intense, persistence and frequency.
4. Environmental factors: 1. Infection; 2. Stimulating immune system.
5. Medicine and decayed food may also lead to Lupus Nephritis.
Is Lower Back Pain Indicating Kidney Problem?
Patients with kidney disease often have lower back pain. For example, when patients have Acute Pyelonephritis, kidney emboli, Obstructive Kidney Disease, rapid enlargement of kidney and suppurative inflammation around kidneys, they will appear violent lower back pain. But not all patients with kidney problem will have this symptom, such as Acute and Chronic Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome and so on, they often just have slight discomfort or soreness of waist; few of them appear violent lower back pain. In addition, other disease can also lead to lower back pain, such as lumbar muscle strain, lumbar hyperosteogeny, lumber sprain and women’s pelvic lesions (pelvic inflammation, annexitis and so on). So not all lower back pains are indicating kidney problem. Patients should go to hospital to take examination to confirm the reason.
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