Precautions for kidney deficiency, pay attention to a few small things to prevent kidney deficiency

Kidney deficiency is an abnormal state of the kidneys. Kidney deficiency can cause people to be weak in energy, easily fatigued, dizzy, insomnia, and upset. People with kidney deficiency should pay more attention to the following things in their daily lives to avoid adding more burden and damage to their kidneys.

1: Long-term or high-dose use of some anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, such as painkillers, indomethacin, acetaminophen, aspirin, etc., can easily cause kidney damage. Kidney damage can be manifested as fatigue, dry mouth, loss of appetite, frequent urination, urgency, pain, and even hematuria and sterile purulent urine, accompanied by joint pain and other symptoms. Some can directly cause acute nephritis or glomerular necrosis and other nephrotic syndromes, and severe cases can lead to kidney failure and death.

1: Modern people have more opportunities to have meals together, and often eat too much "delicious" food. The food they eat will eventually produce waste products - uric acid and urea nitrogen. Most of these waste products are excreted through the kidneys, and excessive eating will undoubtedly increase the burden on the kidneys.

1: If you don't drink water for a long time, the amount of urine will decrease, and the concentration of waste and toxins carried in the urine will increase. Common clinical conditions such as kidney stones and hydronephrosis are closely related to not drinking water for a long time. Drinking enough water can dilute urine, protect the kidneys, and help to fully excrete waste and toxins.

1: Excessive intake of soft drinks and sports drinks will indirectly damage the kidneys. The pH value of the human body is 7.2. These drinks are generally highly acidic, and the pH value in the body changes significantly after drinking. The kidneys are the main organs that regulate the pH value in the human body. Long-term excessive intake of soft drinks and sports drinks will put a burden on the kidneys and increase the probability of kidney damage.

1: There is a food additive called potassium bromate in bread and pastries. It can give baked foods the necessary gluten strength and elasticity, making them soft when eaten. However, excessive consumption can damage the central nervous system, blood and kidneys.

1: Some people hold their urine for a long time due to busy work. Urine in the bladder for too long is easy to breed bacteria, which will retrograde through the ureter to the kidney, causing urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis. Once this type of infection recurs, it can cause chronic infection and is difficult to cure. Patients will not only experience back pain, frequent urination and other symptoms, but may also develop acute uremia.

1: Some people think that drinking strong tea after drinking alcohol can help them sober up. In fact, this is not only ineffective, but also harmful to the kidneys. The alkaloids in tea can quickly affect the kidneys and play a diuretic role. At this time, the alcohol is excreted from the kidneys before it has time to be broken down. The kidneys are stimulated by a large amount of ethanol, which damages the kidney function.

1: In recent years, clinical studies have repeatedly found that taking certain Chinese herbal medicines (including Chinese patent medicines) can cause kidney damage. Chinese herbal medicines that can "damage the kidney" include: Tripterygium wilfordii, Aristolochia chinensis, Fructus niuri, Fructus sylvestris, Poppy shell, Rhizoma aconitifolii, Fructus cyrtonemae, Aristolochia dahurica, Radix Stephaniae fangji, etc. Among them, Tripterygium wilfordii causes the greatest kidney damage, followed by Aristolochia chinensis. The reason why Aristolochia chinensis damages the kidney is that it contains aristolochic acid, a kidney toxic substance.

1: A salty diet, especially some snacks with high salt content, such as potato chips, instant noodles, etc., will make people absorb excessive salt unknowingly, leading to increased blood pressure, and the kidneys cannot maintain normal blood flow, thereby inducing kidney disease.

The kidneys are important organs. When kidney function is seriously damaged, uremia may occur and endanger life. Although kidney function gradually declines with age, some living habits or behaviors in life often become important causes of kidney function damage. In order to protect the kidneys, we must be alert to the above "kidney-damaging" factors. Only in this way can we have healthy kidneys.