2013年7月17日星期三

Can Uremia Pass Down to My Children

Uremia itself is not hereditary, but the kidney diseases and uremia complicated by some basic diseases, such as polycystic kidney disease, diabetes high blood pressure, etc having family history have a certain hereditary inclination. Learn About: Stage 5 Kidney Failure on Dialysis: Can I Have Alcoholic Drink
Uremia is the serious damage of renal unit and a group of clinical syndrome that the body disorders when excreting, metabolizing, regulating water, electrolyte and acid-base balance. With uremia occuring, some symptoms may appear in various systems of the patients, such as digestive system, cardiovascular system, neural system and blood. The most common and earliest symptoms may be gastrointestinal discomfort, such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and nocturia increasing, fatigue, etc.

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End Stage Kidney Disease: Can I Drink Tea

Tea is not only a very popular drink in daily life but has great health benefits. Tea can be refreshing, relieve fatigue, helping digestion, relieving thirst, diuresis and detumescence; especially, green tea and oolong tea are better than black tea. Tea containing rich vitamin c, vitamin e, beta-carotene, Nick acid, potassium, calcium, selenium, fluorine, etc. can adjust acid-base balance; those are the benefits of tea on the human body including the kidney. Learn About : Can Coriander Be Consumed by Kidney Disease Patient
However, ESRD patients can not often drink tea because the tea contains caffeine. About a cup of tea contains 30%-50% caffeine of a cup of coffee; a large number of strong tea contains more caffeine. Caffeine can cause human body’s normal cell distortion and may result in cancer. Drinking a large amout of strong tea can make nervous system excessive excitement, increase the heart and kidney burden, promote gastrin secretion, induce peptic ulcer, and tannin acid easily combines with iron, hematopoietic factors reduce the absorption of iron, which is very unfavorable for the rehabilitation of ESRD. Therefore, uremia patients should eat less tea.

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Top 5 Suggested Foods for Kidney Failure Patients

Here are some foods which are good for patients with Kidney Failure. Detailed Foods List for Kidney Failure.
1. berries
Berries are known as kidney-friendly food for a really long time. Those berries include blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, cranberry, and raspberry and so on and so forth. Various berries obtain different features, but all in all, those fruits are good for the bone, heart, or anti-inflammation etc.
2. onion
Onion is a kidney-friendly food attributing to its quercetin. The chemicals in onion are able to prevent the fatty material from depositing in one’s blood vessels, protect one’s heart and anti-inflammation. If you or your cared one is a Renal Failure patient, don′t forget to try onion.
3. apple
Apples is characterized as anti-inflammation and reduce cholesterol etc. apples can be eaten raw or cooked, or if your kid doesn’t like eating apple, then give him or her apple juice.
4. egg white
Please notice that it is white egg instead of egg yolk. When I was little, I hated eating eggs, both egg white and yolk, because I was always choked by it. I assume same thing may happen in kids now. One thing you may not know is that egg white is pure protein, can you believe that? It provides us the highest quality protein.
5. cauliflower
This is a super food for Renal Failure patients. Not just because it contains fiber and folate, but also rich in vitamin C. moreover, you can eat it with many types, such as smash, steamed or boiled, whatever you or the kids like.

Those tips are just for those who concern their kidney health and who have already suffered from Renal Failure or some kind of kidney disease. If you need more food lists, you can email to kidneyask@hotmail.com for a free reply.

2013年7月7日星期日

Swollen Face and Type 1 Diabetes

Sometimes, the patients with type 1 Diabetes may suffer from swelling in face. How does it occur? Does it can aggravate the disease progression? If you need personalized second opinion, you can email your medical condition to kidneyask@hotmail.com and we are glad to attend to you within 48 hours.
If the patients have the swelling occasionally, it is may be caused by excess water intake or overwork etc. However, if it exists for too long and reoccurs frequently, the patients should pay more attention to it because it is may be related to kidney injury.
Kidney injury is very common in the patients with a long history of Diabetes such as above 10 years. (Learn About:How to Make Creatinine Control Well)
The capillaries in kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and discharging metabolic products. Meanwhile, the kidneys can keep the useful stuffs in blood. However, if blood sugar level is controlled poorly, it will impair the capillaries. As a result, the kidneys can not function normally and a lot of waste products build up in body and a lot of proteins leak into urine.
On one hand, as proteins leak into urine, the protein level in blood will decline. Afterwards, fluid in blood vessels will immerse into subcutaneous tissue. As the tissues in face are soft, it is involved primarily.
On the other hand, the kidneys can not filter fluid normally as before. As a result, they will build up in body. It is also a common cause of swelling in face.
So, how to relieve it?
1. The patients with type 1 Diabetes should limit water intake properly.
2. The doctors will recommend some diuretic to relive it.
3. The patients should go for tests to find out if it is caused by kidney injury. If so, they should take proper treatment as soon as possible. If the patients with type 1 Diabetes have proteins in urine, the disease usually at least has developed into stage 3 of Diabetic Nephropathy.

To prevent renal injury, the experts remind all the patients with Diabetes that they should go for regular microalbuminuria.

Diabetic Is At Risk to Develop High Blood Pressure

KidneyDiseaseHigh blood pressure is commonly seen in people with Diabetes. The mortality is much higher in patients accompanied by high blood pressure than those who do not have.
Why the patients with Diabetes develop high blood pressure?
☆ Family history
High blood pressure is more common among people with a family history of the disorder. Meanwhile, it is closely related to obesity and dyslipidemia. (Learn About: Different Ways to Lower Creatinine Level 2.3)
☆ Hyperinsulinmia
Hyperinsulinmia can cause reduced sensitivity of peripheral tissues to insulin. To keep the normal level of blood glucose, the islet cells will work hard to secrete more insulin thus causing high insulin level in blood. The insulin resistance in fat tissues can cause the concentration of free fatty acid and the triglyceride to increase thus increasing the risk of cardiovascnlar diseases.
☆RASS
In Diabetes, more renin is secreted by kidneys. Increased renin secretion can cause increased production of angiotonin thus causing contraction of blood vessels. As a result, the blood pressure will increase.
☆ Kidney injury
Kidney injury is commonly seen among people with a long history of Diabetes. As excess fluid can not be filtered out of body, it will cause retention of fluid. As a result, the increased blood volume thus resulting in high blood pressure.
High blood pressure can speed up the progression of Diabetes and cause more damage to kidneys. Therefore, it is very important for them to control their blood pressure.
1. Controlling blood glucose level plays a vital role in controlling blood pressure.
2. The patients should take proper aerobic exercise such as biking, jogging and avoid strenuous exercise which may cause blood pressure fluctuation.
3. If they are obese, they should take effective measures to lose weight.
4. Excessive intake of sodium can cause retention of fluid in body thus aggravating high blood pressure. Therefore, the patients should limit salt intake and foods rich in sodium.
5. Nicotine and alcohol can contract blood vessels and cause increased heart beat. Therefore, the patients with Diabetes should quit smoking and drinking.

The above article has introduced the causes and preventive measures of high blood pressure in Diabetes. If you have questions about how to control high glucose level, how to remove proteins in urine etc, you can email to kidneyask@hotmail.com

2013年7月5日星期五

Hematuria in IgA Nephropathy

IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerular disease, which accounts for 1/3 of primary glomerular nephritis disease. IgA nephropathy is named by IgA immune complex depositing in the kidney. Children and young people are more likely to suffer from this disease. And man is more than woman. Hematuria in IgA nephropathy can be divided into macroscopic hematuria and microscopic hematuria. (Learn About: Is Anybody Cured From IgA Nephropathy)
The most obvious manifestation of IgA nephropathy is recurrent and interstitial hematuria. The renal pathological damage causing local microcirculation barrier, which causes kidney ischemia and hypoxia and damages the kidney tissues. Treatment of IgA nephropathy should stop the antigen invading, alleviate the abnormal immune response, eliminate immune complex, lower blood pressure and replace the blood plasma. As for the treatment, the patients should accept the effective treatment in time, here, we can recommend you Micro-Chinese Medicine Therapy.

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IgA Nephropathy and Spondylitis

It was reported that IgA Nephropathy patients are more likely to develop spondylitis. Can IgA Nephropathy lead to Spondylitis? Yes, in some case, it is. however, due the individual condition, the answer may differ. if you need a personalized answer, please email basic info and medical condition to kidneyask@hotmail.com.
Immune disorder
According to a new survey, in 40 patients with spondylitis (AS) no evidence for IgA nephropathy was obtained. This conclusion was based on the absence of hematuria and on the inability to find an increased incidence of IgA-containing immunoglobulin deposits in skin biopsies. Increased Clq binding assay was only found in those AS patients with anterior uveitis. In 26% of the skin biopsies perivascular mononuclear cell infiltrates were observed, and immunoglobulin deposits were seen in 65%. These facts suggest that the immunologic system is involved in the pathogenesis of this disease. (Learn About:Can IgA Nephropathy Cause Infertility in Men)
Side Effects of western medications
Chronic intake of western medications is a leading cause of spondylitis. A medicine is only made available to the public if the clinical trials have shown that the benefits of taking the medicine outweigh the risks. To slow down IgA Nephropathy, many patients take chemical medications constantly, which lead to many side effects and some of medicines, such as meloxicam, froben, aceclofenac and etc, may increase the risk of spondylitis. Thereby, if possible, IgA Nephropathy is suggested to treat by herbal remedy or biotherapy.
Stress
Stress can be another factor for spondylitis. IgA Nephropathy progresses slowly, however, patients usually get enough stress with the symptoms presences. The stress also causes stiffness in neck joints and Ashwagandha is the herbs which is beneficial in stress related muscle stiffness. Stress also increases the speed of bone erosion and low bone density. The herbs in joint aid plus are good natural choice.
IgA Nephropathy and Spondylitis seems unrelated tissues to each other. However, the IgA immune disorder, side effects of chemical drugs and stress will causes patients the disease of spondylitis.

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