General Symptoms of End Stage Chronic Kidney Disease

End Stage Chronic Kidney Disease　(CKD) is also called Uremia, which means that there are less than 15% of renal function remains in the patients’ kidneys. As it is life-threatening, many doctors call it “The Second Cancer” and have no idea to treat it. Therefore, it is necessary for patients with CKD know something about it and try their best to avoid it.
What are the general symptoms of end stage CKD?
● The Brain and Nervous System
With CKD progressing, patients may feel fatigue easily, and always have a headache accompanied with dizziness. It is difficult for them to understand any complex theory or to recite an article. As the end stage CKD becomes worse, patients can become disoriented or confused, develop slurred speech, suffer from seizures and eventually fall into a coma.
● Stomach and Intestines
At the beginning of end stage CKD, patients are likely to have a poor appetite or digestion which is a signal of the damage in stomach. Later, they will have nausea, vomiting and diarrhea accompanied with bleeding of gastrointestinal tract.
● Blood and Heart Vessel System
End stage of CKD is similar to chronic renal failure which may lead to heart failure and arrhythmia by means of Renal Hypertension, Acidosis, Hyperkalemia or Anemia.
●Lungs
Patients with end stage CKD tend to breath in a slow and deep way with a bad smell in mouth. Some diseases may appear in the lungs such as edema and calcification.
●Skin
Skin itch is common among the patients with CKD. In the end stage, the itch can be more severe than before and influence the sleep quality.

These are five aspects that patients with CKD may have to suffer from, and they will be more severe than that in stage four or appear in a new way. In this period, most patients will choose dialysis to control the disease which is a necessary measure but not the perfect one. To treat the disease fundamentally they should try to find some new ways such as Chinese Medicine and stem cell transplant which can treat the disease from the root and even help some patients stay far away from dialysis.