Something You Need to Know with Chronic Kidney Disease

The kidneys are an important organ in our body, the basic functions of the kidney are as follows.
First, it produces urine.
Second, it can purify the wastes or toxins of the body.
Third, the kidney tubules have the function of reabsorption, through which the kidneys can keep the water and other useful materials, such as glucose, protein, amino acid, sodium ion, potassium ion, sodium hydrogen carbonate, etc, so as to keep balance between water and electrolyte and maintain a acid-base equilibrium.
Forth, the kidneys have endocrine function. It can produce renin, hemopoietin ( which is related to anemia), activated vitamin D3 (which is related to calcium deficiency, renal osteodystrophy), prostaglandin, plasmakinin ( the last two are related to blood pressure.)
Fifth, the kidneys is the place where the degradation of the endocrine hormone in the organism takes place . Besides, it is also the target organ of the renal pheromone.
It is these functions above that the inner condition of our body stays stable and the metabolism runs smoothly.
the signs of the kidney diseases in the early stage
1 edema
Eye edema
The features of the nephrotic edema are as follows. Eyelid or facial edema will arise after a kidney patient get up in the morning, usually it will fade away after noon. It will get worse when the patient feel tired, and it will fade after a rest. The lower parts of our body, such as the inner ankles, legs and the lumbosacral portion ,usually have a higher possibility in getting serious edema.
Hypertension
The hypertension caused by kidney diseases is same with the common hypertension. The patient will feel headache, dizzy, giddy, and tinnitus. However, some patients have got hypertension for a long time, thus they have a higher toleration for hypertension. Therefore, they won’t feel uncomfortable even they have got kidney diseases.
Lumbago
Usually, patients will feel aching pain, gripping pain or persistent and dull pain in their kidney part.
Abnormal urine amount
Normally, a person’s urine amount is about 1,000~2,000ml./day, and at an average amount of 1,500ml./day. The abnormal urine amount may be a sign of kidney disease. Especially the excessive urination at night is a sign of kidney disease.
Abnormal urine test

If protein , occult blood, red blood cells(which is a index that most likely become abnormal,especially at the early stage of kidney disease), white blood cells, urinary cylinder,ketone body, urine sugar are found in the urine routine test, then a further test is needed to identify the result.