How should we treat high blood pressure in CKD? And in which way can we get
the best and effective results? The patients with high blood pressure in CKD
must have cared about this topic very much. Here we will make a detailed
explanation for you.
Although different stages have different treatment plans, they are all for
the purpose of getting better. The best results we can get after treatment
include:
Control blood pressure within less than 130/80.
Make kidney disease get better.
Decrease the rate of heart disease.
If patients with high blood pressure in CKD want to achieve the above goals,
they must change themselves in many aspects, such as a healthier diet, more
exercising and proper medications.
Now we will describe the specific treatment for it.
The treatment of renovascular hypertension
Renovascular hypertension is always treated by surgery mostly, which is the
best therapy. And patients should have a healthy life.
The treatment of renal hypertension
1. Modification of life. Have a healthy diet. In stage 1 and 2, patients
should eat more food which is rich in fruits and vegetables, low in sodium and
sugar. When kidney function decreases largely, patients should control the
intake of things, such as protein, cholesterol, saturated fat, potassium and
phosphorus. Besides, patients should take more exercise and lose weight.
2. Anti-hypertensive medications: this medicine can control blood pressure of
patients within a normal range. The most commonly anti-hypertensive medications
include: ACEI, ARB, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretic, etc. What
is more, you must take the medicine as your doctor advises. Never take the
medicine blindly by yourself.
3. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. With the effect of anti-coagulation
and extending blood pressure, this therapy can reduce the force of blood against
the walls of blood vessels, thus lowering hypertension. Besides, this therapy
can also help reverse patients’ kidney damage and improve kidney function.
4. Therapy for CKD. Medicines for chronic kidney disease. Patients use these
medicines to slow down the deterioration of kidney function, which can
contribute to lowering blood pressure.
In a word, we should combine the treatment of high blood pressure and chronic
kidney disease. Only in this way can we get the best and effective treatment for
high blood pressure in CKD.
2014年1月28日星期二
2014年1月27日星期一
What Is End Stage Renal Disease
End stage renal disease is also known as the fifth stage of chronic kidney
disease. End stage renal disease means that the kidney function decreases
sharply and is completely or almost damaged. And this damaged kidney can’t be
recovered forever.
What can cause end stage renal disease?
End stage kidney disease is often caused by high blood pressure and diabetes, which have a very bad influence on the kidney.
Chronic kidney disease can always lead to end stage renal disease. Before the patients with chronic kidney disease develop into end stage renal disease, they always have suffered from chronic kidney disease for 10---20 years.
What are the symptoms of end stage renal disease?
The symptoms include:
Fatigue and weakness
Skin problems, such as itchy skin and dry skin
Weight loss
Loss of appetite
Nausea and vomiting
Headache
Breath difficulty and breath odor
Swelling in every area of body
Concentrating or thinking problems
Muscle twitching or cramps
What kinds of people are easy to get end stage renal disease?
The patients with chronic kidney disease are likely to get this disease.
The people whose kidneys are damaged or injured may get end stage renal disease.
The people who have a large loss of blood are prone to this disease.
How can we prevent and treat it?
The fundamental way is that we should prevent from chronic kidney disease and patients with CKD must have a good treatment to avoid the deterioration of kidney function. We should control the blood pressure and diabetes and follow the good habits like:
Go to see a doctor regularly for a time
Have a low-fat, low-salt, low-protein diet
Get enough calories if you are losing weight
Limit fluids salt, potassium, phosphorous, and other electrolytes
Take more exercise
Don’t drink or smoke
Because the kidney function of patients with end stage renal disease is completely damaged, which means it can’t filter the wastes and fluid. So patients need to do dialysis or a kidney transplant to replace the kidney.
Here is our detailed introduction, hoping it is helpful and useful to you. If you have any question, please contact us freely any time.
What can cause end stage renal disease?
End stage kidney disease is often caused by high blood pressure and diabetes, which have a very bad influence on the kidney.
Chronic kidney disease can always lead to end stage renal disease. Before the patients with chronic kidney disease develop into end stage renal disease, they always have suffered from chronic kidney disease for 10---20 years.
What are the symptoms of end stage renal disease?
The symptoms include:
Fatigue and weakness
Skin problems, such as itchy skin and dry skin
Weight loss
Loss of appetite
Nausea and vomiting
Headache
Breath difficulty and breath odor
Swelling in every area of body
Concentrating or thinking problems
Muscle twitching or cramps
What kinds of people are easy to get end stage renal disease?
The patients with chronic kidney disease are likely to get this disease.
The people whose kidneys are damaged or injured may get end stage renal disease.
The people who have a large loss of blood are prone to this disease.
How can we prevent and treat it?
The fundamental way is that we should prevent from chronic kidney disease and patients with CKD must have a good treatment to avoid the deterioration of kidney function. We should control the blood pressure and diabetes and follow the good habits like:
Go to see a doctor regularly for a time
Have a low-fat, low-salt, low-protein diet
Get enough calories if you are losing weight
Limit fluids salt, potassium, phosphorous, and other electrolytes
Take more exercise
Don’t drink or smoke
Because the kidney function of patients with end stage renal disease is completely damaged, which means it can’t filter the wastes and fluid. So patients need to do dialysis or a kidney transplant to replace the kidney.
Here is our detailed introduction, hoping it is helpful and useful to you. If you have any question, please contact us freely any time.
What is Polycystic Kidney Disease
Polycystic Kidney Disease means that there are many cysts developing in the
kidney. And cysts can be growing and increasing the time. Cysts are noncancerous
round sacs containing water-like fluid. The kidney function is to filter the
wastes and fluid from blood to urine. When the cysts grow in the kidney, your
kidney will become larger, which leads that the cysts can replace the normal
structure and damage the organs. And cysts have a very bad and profound
influence on the kidney, which eventually can lead to kidney failure. Besides,
cysts don’t only form in the kidney, but also can develop in the liver and other
organs, which causes many other problems. Polycystic kidney disease will cause
many complications, such as high blood pressure and kidney failure.
Polycystic kidney disease is mostly divided into two inherited kinds, which are called autosomal recessive PKD and autosomal dominant PKD. But there is Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease, too. Now let’s see the detailed introduction as following:
Autosomal dominant PKD:
90 percent of patients with PKD are suffering from autosomal dominant PKD. Autosomal dominant PKD is the most common type, which is because a defective gene from one of parents is inherited by the child. This disease usually shows up in the adulthood between 30 and 40 of the age, so it is but some can develop in the childhood.
Autosomal recessive PKD:
The rate of autosomal recessive PKD is rare. The patient with autosomal recessive PKD must inherit two faulty genes from each of his parents. And this disease develops very early, usually after birth, even in the womb.
Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease:
Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease means that it is developing due to mutation of the genes, not affected by parents. The patients with Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease don’t need to worry that their children inherit the disease.
In a word, polycystic kidney disease has many varieties according to its severity, and some complications can be preventable. Good life habits and timely medical treatments may contribute to reducing damage to your kidneys. From the above, we can get a general understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease, which can be helpful for patients with PKD.
Polycystic kidney disease is mostly divided into two inherited kinds, which are called autosomal recessive PKD and autosomal dominant PKD. But there is Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease, too. Now let’s see the detailed introduction as following:
Autosomal dominant PKD:
90 percent of patients with PKD are suffering from autosomal dominant PKD. Autosomal dominant PKD is the most common type, which is because a defective gene from one of parents is inherited by the child. This disease usually shows up in the adulthood between 30 and 40 of the age, so it is but some can develop in the childhood.
Autosomal recessive PKD:
The rate of autosomal recessive PKD is rare. The patient with autosomal recessive PKD must inherit two faulty genes from each of his parents. And this disease develops very early, usually after birth, even in the womb.
Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease:
Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease means that it is developing due to mutation of the genes, not affected by parents. The patients with Non-hereditary polycystic kidney disease don’t need to worry that their children inherit the disease.
In a word, polycystic kidney disease has many varieties according to its severity, and some complications can be preventable. Good life habits and timely medical treatments may contribute to reducing damage to your kidneys. From the above, we can get a general understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease, which can be helpful for patients with PKD.
2014年1月26日星期日
Symptoms of Stage 4 Kidney Disease
Kidney disease is divided into five stages according to the development. The
previous two stages are almost similar in the symptoms and characteristics,
which are not very obvious and less serious. As for stage 3, half of kidney
function is lost, which is serious compared with the previous stages. However,
when kidney disease develops to stage 4, the kidney function decreases sharply
and kidney disease becomes very severe. Here we will discuss about stage 4 of
kidney disease, especially about symptoms of it. Hope that patients with kidney
disease can realize if his disease condition is becoming much severe.
What is stage 4 of kidney disease?
First of all, we should understand the definition of stage 4. Stage 4 means that your kidney function declines largely with your Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) falling to 15-30ml/min. A large amount of wastes build up in the body, which can lead to uremia. And erythropoietin can’t be produced enough for red blood cells, which can cause anemia. Besides there are many complications coexisting with kidney disease, such as high blood pressure, bone disease,heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases.
What are the symptoms of stage 4?
We can judge the development of the disease from the symptoms, which contributes to our treatment very much. Symptoms of stage 4 can fall into two categories as non-specific and specific symptoms.
Non- specific symptoms:
these symptoms can also be found with other patients of CKD or even of other diseases. Still, they are very useful indicators to test your condition.
Including:
1. Fatigue. Patients always feel tired easily.
2. Kidney pain: Most people with CKD do not have kidney pain, but with some kinds of kidney problems, such as polycystic kidney disease (PKD) or infections, they may have pain in their back where the kidneys are located.
3. Nerve problems. Early symptoms mainly include insomnia, poor concentration and memory decline. In some cases, the patients experience tingling, numbness, coma, insanity, etc.
4. Difficulty of concentrating. They can’t focus their attention and mind on what they are doing.
5. Nausea. The patients always feel nauseated.
6. Insomnia. Patients can be very hard to fall asleep because of Skin itching, restless legs or muscle cramps
Specific symptoms:
These symptoms are considered to be strong indications of the presence of stage 4
Including:
7. Urine changes. Urine can become very cloudy with full of foam.
8. Bad appetite. Patients don’t want to eat things and there is a metallic taste in their mouths.
9. Cardiovascular diseases. They are more likely to tend to heart failure, arrhythmia, myocardial damage, or smoothing like that, because of high blood pressure, water and sodium retention, anemia and toxic substances.
10. Too much fluid: The kidneys may lose their ability to control how much fluid stays in the body. A person may notice swelling (edema) in their lower legs, hands or face around the eyes. With too much fluid someone, could even feel short of breath.
The above is the symptoms of stage 4 of kidney disease.
Here is our introduction for symptoms of stage 4, hoping it is helpful for you. If you have any question, please contact us freely any time through email or phone.
What is stage 4 of kidney disease?
First of all, we should understand the definition of stage 4. Stage 4 means that your kidney function declines largely with your Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) falling to 15-30ml/min. A large amount of wastes build up in the body, which can lead to uremia. And erythropoietin can’t be produced enough for red blood cells, which can cause anemia. Besides there are many complications coexisting with kidney disease, such as high blood pressure, bone disease,heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases.
What are the symptoms of stage 4?
We can judge the development of the disease from the symptoms, which contributes to our treatment very much. Symptoms of stage 4 can fall into two categories as non-specific and specific symptoms.
Non- specific symptoms:
these symptoms can also be found with other patients of CKD or even of other diseases. Still, they are very useful indicators to test your condition.
Including:
1. Fatigue. Patients always feel tired easily.
2. Kidney pain: Most people with CKD do not have kidney pain, but with some kinds of kidney problems, such as polycystic kidney disease (PKD) or infections, they may have pain in their back where the kidneys are located.
3. Nerve problems. Early symptoms mainly include insomnia, poor concentration and memory decline. In some cases, the patients experience tingling, numbness, coma, insanity, etc.
4. Difficulty of concentrating. They can’t focus their attention and mind on what they are doing.
5. Nausea. The patients always feel nauseated.
6. Insomnia. Patients can be very hard to fall asleep because of Skin itching, restless legs or muscle cramps
Specific symptoms:
These symptoms are considered to be strong indications of the presence of stage 4
Including:
7. Urine changes. Urine can become very cloudy with full of foam.
8. Bad appetite. Patients don’t want to eat things and there is a metallic taste in their mouths.
9. Cardiovascular diseases. They are more likely to tend to heart failure, arrhythmia, myocardial damage, or smoothing like that, because of high blood pressure, water and sodium retention, anemia and toxic substances.
10. Too much fluid: The kidneys may lose their ability to control how much fluid stays in the body. A person may notice swelling (edema) in their lower legs, hands or face around the eyes. With too much fluid someone, could even feel short of breath.
The above is the symptoms of stage 4 of kidney disease.
Here is our introduction for symptoms of stage 4, hoping it is helpful for you. If you have any question, please contact us freely any time through email or phone.
Causes of skin itching with CKD
Many patients with CKD always complain about skin itching. And the research
shows that the more serious CKD is, the more serious skin itching is, especially
in stage 4 and 5 of chronic kidney disease. Then what are the causes of skin
itching? And how can we prevent and treat it? Here we will make a detailed
explanation, hoping it is useful and helpful for you.
What is skin itching?
Skin itching means that there is only itching on your skin, but no primary skin lesions. And skin itching is divided into two categories as systemic and limitations according to the scope and part of itching.
What is the cause of skin itching with CKD?
Skin itching is one of clinical manifestations of chronic kidney disease. As the kidney function decreases, wastes can be gathered in the body, which makes our body in a disordered condition. And these wastes can stimulate our skin, leading to itching. Skin itching with CKD has four specific causes as following:
1 Nitrogen metabolites retention can stimulate skin, leading to itching. Sebaceous gland and Sweat glands atrophy can make skin dry, which causes skin itching.
2 Because electrolyte metabolic disorders of patients with CKD, calcium is deposited on the skin, which leads to skin itching.
3 some patients with CKD are prone to allergic reactions, which can cause skin itching.
4 Because of Uremic neuropathy
Skin itching is very common and severe in stage 4, in which CKD is serious enough to threaten the life of patients. And much Urea nitrogen builds up in the blood and causes high blood urea nitrogen level. Urea nitrogen stimulates patient’s skin, thus it causes itch itching.
What is the impact of skin itching with CKD?
When we sleep in the night, skin itching can make us feel uncomfortable, which makes us have a bad sleep. And we can’t concentrate on the thing we should do in the day. So skin itching affects our normal life and lowers the quality of our life.
How should we prevent and treat skin itching with CKD?
First of all, we should improve the condition of kidney, which is the fundamental factor. For example, we should decrease the wastes in the body, and limit intake of protein. We must try our best to treat chronic kidney disease，which is the most effective method.
Secondly, we should properly use some antipruritics under the doctor’s advice.
Besides, bath treatment is a very necessary method to relieve skin itching. The patients should soak themselves in the baking soda bath for 15-30 minutes, which can excrete your toxins in your body.
You can understand the causes of skin itching with CKD and get a whole knowledge of skin itching with CKD through the above contents. Here is our introduction for your reference and hope it can be useful. If you have any question, please contact us freely by email or phone.
What is skin itching?
Skin itching means that there is only itching on your skin, but no primary skin lesions. And skin itching is divided into two categories as systemic and limitations according to the scope and part of itching.
What is the cause of skin itching with CKD?
Skin itching is one of clinical manifestations of chronic kidney disease. As the kidney function decreases, wastes can be gathered in the body, which makes our body in a disordered condition. And these wastes can stimulate our skin, leading to itching. Skin itching with CKD has four specific causes as following:
1 Nitrogen metabolites retention can stimulate skin, leading to itching. Sebaceous gland and Sweat glands atrophy can make skin dry, which causes skin itching.
2 Because electrolyte metabolic disorders of patients with CKD, calcium is deposited on the skin, which leads to skin itching.
3 some patients with CKD are prone to allergic reactions, which can cause skin itching.
4 Because of Uremic neuropathy
Skin itching is very common and severe in stage 4, in which CKD is serious enough to threaten the life of patients. And much Urea nitrogen builds up in the blood and causes high blood urea nitrogen level. Urea nitrogen stimulates patient’s skin, thus it causes itch itching.
What is the impact of skin itching with CKD?
When we sleep in the night, skin itching can make us feel uncomfortable, which makes us have a bad sleep. And we can’t concentrate on the thing we should do in the day. So skin itching affects our normal life and lowers the quality of our life.
How should we prevent and treat skin itching with CKD?
First of all, we should improve the condition of kidney, which is the fundamental factor. For example, we should decrease the wastes in the body, and limit intake of protein. We must try our best to treat chronic kidney disease，which is the most effective method.
Secondly, we should properly use some antipruritics under the doctor’s advice.
Besides, bath treatment is a very necessary method to relieve skin itching. The patients should soak themselves in the baking soda bath for 15-30 minutes, which can excrete your toxins in your body.
You can understand the causes of skin itching with CKD and get a whole knowledge of skin itching with CKD through the above contents. Here is our introduction for your reference and hope it can be useful. If you have any question, please contact us freely by email or phone.
2014年1月25日星期六
How does chronic kidney disease cause renal anemia
CKD have the very high risk of causing renal anemia. And CKD is related to
renal anemia very closely. Then you may ask why and how CKD can cause renal
anemia? Here we will make a detailed introduction for you, hoping it is very
helpful for you.
What factors can make patients with CKD suffer from renal anemia?
Renal anemia is caused due to kidney damage. With the worsening of chronic kidney disease, kidney damage is more serious. When Serum creatinine value is greater than 308μmol/L because of very serious kidney, renal anemia is much more possible to occur.
When your kidney function decreases, the number of hemopoietin caused by secretion of kidney can’t meet the need of body, which is one of the most main causes of renal anemia. Besides, patients with chronic renal insufficiency and uremia have a large number of metabolic toxins staked in the body, and survival time of red cells drops with the less intake of iron or iron loss, leading to lack of red blood cells. Patients with CKD always control the intake of protein, while urine protein is still losing continually. And patients with CKD are very prone to bleed.
Above are the factors that cause renal anemia.
How can renal anemia be treated and slowed down?
After we know the causes, you may want to ask how to treat and avoid it.
It is divided into three ways as Chinese tradition medicine, Western medicine and combination of Chinese and Western medicine.
1 Chinese tradition medicine
It can promote erythropoietin by traditional Chinese medicine active substances to treat renal anemia.
2 Western medicine
By Pharmaceutical drug
By blood transfusion
By dialysis
3 Combination of Chinese and Western medicine
RecombinantEPO is the main method of treating renal anemia.
In a word, chronic kidney disease contributes to causing renal anemia and affects it very much. You should pay attention to diet and exercise to avoid renal anemia.
What factors can make patients with CKD suffer from renal anemia?
Renal anemia is caused due to kidney damage. With the worsening of chronic kidney disease, kidney damage is more serious. When Serum creatinine value is greater than 308μmol/L because of very serious kidney, renal anemia is much more possible to occur.
When your kidney function decreases, the number of hemopoietin caused by secretion of kidney can’t meet the need of body, which is one of the most main causes of renal anemia. Besides, patients with chronic renal insufficiency and uremia have a large number of metabolic toxins staked in the body, and survival time of red cells drops with the less intake of iron or iron loss, leading to lack of red blood cells. Patients with CKD always control the intake of protein, while urine protein is still losing continually. And patients with CKD are very prone to bleed.
Above are the factors that cause renal anemia.
How can renal anemia be treated and slowed down?
After we know the causes, you may want to ask how to treat and avoid it.
It is divided into three ways as Chinese tradition medicine, Western medicine and combination of Chinese and Western medicine.
1 Chinese tradition medicine
It can promote erythropoietin by traditional Chinese medicine active substances to treat renal anemia.
2 Western medicine
By Pharmaceutical drug
By blood transfusion
By dialysis
3 Combination of Chinese and Western medicine
RecombinantEPO is the main method of treating renal anemia.
In a word, chronic kidney disease contributes to causing renal anemia and affects it very much. You should pay attention to diet and exercise to avoid renal anemia.
What causes elevation of blood pressure in CKD
Elevation of blood pressure often follows patients with CKD. If elevation of
blood pressure continues very seriously, the blood is forced against the blood
vessels and extra fluid in the body increases the amount of fluid in blood
vessels and makes blood pressure higher. The high blood pressure can cause many
diseases and affect the kidney function in turn, which is very harmful. And the
more serious CKD is, the higher blood pressure is. Then you may ask why and what
causes this phenomenon. Here we will make a detailed introduction for you,
hoping it can be useful to you.
CKD affects high blood pressure
Elevation of blood pressure is one of the most main symptoms of CKD.
There are two ways leading to high blood pressure in CKD.
Firstly, glomerular filtration rate of patients with CKD decreases, and the absorption of sodium through kidney tubules increases, which leads to water and sodium retention. As blood volume expands, blood pressure elevates.
Secondly, renin secretion and angiotensin Ⅱ synthesis can increase in CKD. AngiotensinⅡcan make blood vessel shrink, leading to high blood pressure and stimulating aldosterone secretion. Finally water and sodium retention will increase, so high blood pressure occurs.
So we can know that the water and sodium retention is the leading cause of elevation of blood pressure.
High blood pressure affects CKD
Besides, the kidneys play a key role in keeping a person's blood pressure in a healthy range, and blood pressure, in turn, can affect the health of the kidneys. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, can damage the kidneys and lead to chronic kidney disease, too.
High blood pressure makes the heart work harder and, over time, can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, they may stop removing wastes and extra fluid from the body. The extra fluid in the blood vessels may then raise blood pressure even more. It's a dangerous cycle.
From the clinical research, we can find that the more serious the kidney is, the higher blood pressure is. CKD relates to blood pressure with each other closely.
Above is the introduction we do for you, which can be helpful to you. If you have any question, please contact us freely by email or phone.
CKD affects high blood pressure
Elevation of blood pressure is one of the most main symptoms of CKD.
There are two ways leading to high blood pressure in CKD.
Firstly, glomerular filtration rate of patients with CKD decreases, and the absorption of sodium through kidney tubules increases, which leads to water and sodium retention. As blood volume expands, blood pressure elevates.
Secondly, renin secretion and angiotensin Ⅱ synthesis can increase in CKD. AngiotensinⅡcan make blood vessel shrink, leading to high blood pressure and stimulating aldosterone secretion. Finally water and sodium retention will increase, so high blood pressure occurs.
So we can know that the water and sodium retention is the leading cause of elevation of blood pressure.
High blood pressure affects CKD
Besides, the kidneys play a key role in keeping a person's blood pressure in a healthy range, and blood pressure, in turn, can affect the health of the kidneys. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, can damage the kidneys and lead to chronic kidney disease, too.
High blood pressure makes the heart work harder and, over time, can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, they may stop removing wastes and extra fluid from the body. The extra fluid in the blood vessels may then raise blood pressure even more. It's a dangerous cycle.
From the clinical research, we can find that the more serious the kidney is, the higher blood pressure is. CKD relates to blood pressure with each other closely.
Above is the introduction we do for you, which can be helpful to you. If you have any question, please contact us freely by email or phone.
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