Actually not only IgA Nephropathy patients are suggested to quite smoke, but also all the other patients with kidney problems are recommended to keep far away from cigarette smoking and this is because cigarette smoking contributes to the progression of IgA Nephropathy.
IgA Nephropathy is a primary kidney disease, which can be accelerated by many factors and smoking is just one of them. We know the typical symptom of IgA Kidney Disease is blood urine which indicates excessive red blood cells are lost from urine. Long-term blood urine cause anemia directly. Smoking is harmful for our health. According to a study, different kinds of cigarette produces different chemical substances, but mainly carbon monoxide and tar. Red blood cells have the capability of bringing oxygen to every tissue of our body, but too much carbon monoxide will worse this ability and damage our organs indirectly. With anemia, IgA Nephropathy patients will have symptom of fatigue and poor concentration. Similarly, without enough oxygen, our muscle will be short of energy to supply our physical activities. Therefore, we can say smoking is actually exacerbating symptoms of IgA Kidney Disease. This is the one of the reasons why IgA Nephropathy patients cannot smoke.
Smoking damages us in different ways. For IgA Nephropathy patients, aside from accelerate their kidney problem, it also threatens them with lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, brain disease, digestive system disease and so on. So for IgA Nephropathy patients, even if their kidney problem is controlled, they may die of these smoking related diseases if they just keep smoking in their daily life.
Lastly, smoking not only affects IgA Nephropathy patients themselves, but also others they are getting along with. Therefore, for the sake of themselves, as well as others, they need to and they should keep being far away from smoking.
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