How to deal with insomnia in kidney disease

Kidney disease can be the cause of your sleep problem. well then, how does kidney disease cause insomnia?
Itching skin
Kidney disease can cause waste products to build up in the blood and thus cause itching skin which may affect your sleep quality at night. You may need to stay awake to scratch yourself and if this condition last for a long time, insomnia will be caused.
Restless syndrome
Restless syndrome is a complication of dialysis, with which you may have a poor sleep at night.
Medications
some medications make kidney failure patients sleepy and if they sleep a lot in the day time, they will be sleepless at night. Therefore, these medicines also should be blamed for insomnia among kidney disease patients.
how to deal with insomnia in kidney disease?
1.Bringing all the kidney disease symptoms under control
Common kidney disease symptoms include high blood pressure, swelling, protein in urine, blood in urine and anemia and so on. These symptoms may worsen patient's illness condition and insomnia symptom. Therefore, having a tight control about these symptoms are very necessary.
2.take some antipruritic medicines or fluids
If itching skin has affect your sleep, taking some antipruritic medicines or fluids is very necessary. Besides, skin problem in kidney disease is always caused by high blood urea nitrogen which is the end product of protein. Therefore, to get itching skin problem remitted, limiting protein intake is also very necessary.
3. Improve kidney condition
Since decreased kidney function is the root cause of insomnia for kidney disease patients, when kidney condition is improved, insomnia symptom will be alleviated at the same time.