How to treat the early symptoms of uremia?

Uremia is a terminal stage of kidney disease, which means that uremia is a relatively serious disease. The primary cause of uremia is the development of kidney disease. Suffering from uremia will have a great impact on human health, and at the same time it will affect the normal excretion of waste toxins in the body, thus endangering life.

In fact, misunderstandings in the treatment of uremia can be avoided from the very beginning. For various early kidney diseases, if we only focus on the control and treatment of urine protein, occult blood, white blood cells, and pus cells, and simply lower the indicators without treating the causes of the kidney disease, the kidney function will eventually decline, a large amount of toxins will accumulate in the blood, and blood creatinine and urea nitrogen will continue to rise.

Before hemodialysis, many patients with uremia have a long-term stable condition, with relatively stable blood creatinine and urea nitrogen levels, not to the point where dialysis is necessary, and their remaining renal function is still considerable. However, their condition often worsens and they need dialysis due to colds, fevers, lung infections, diarrhea, enteritis, urinary tract infections, poorly controlled hypertension, trauma, emotional agitation due to disputes with others, or fatigue from work and lack of rest.

If patients with early-stage uremia do not seize the opportunity to receive prompt and correct treatment, massive necrosis of renal units will occur, which will eventually become irreversible and they will have no choice but to rely on dialysis. The huge cost and discomfort caused by dialysis have become an unbearable burden for kidney patients and their families.

Early symptoms of uremia

1. Changes in urine volume

Due to decreased renal filtration function, the urine volume of some patients will gradually decrease as the disease progresses. Even if the urine volume is normal, the toxins excreted in the urine are reduced, the quality is reduced, and excessive waste cannot be excreted from the body. Therefore, to a certain extent, the urine volume cannot fully reflect the quality of your kidney function.

2. Poor appetite

This is due to the retention of urea toxins, which affects digestive function, but most people do not take it seriously. As the disease progresses, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, and even increased frequency of bowel movements will occur.

3. Edema

Because uremia patients have decreased kidney function, excess water in the body cannot be cleared, resulting in fluid retention in the body's tissue spaces. In the early stages, there is only swelling in the ankles and eyelids, which disappears after rest. If it develops into persistent or systemic edema, it is considered a serious illness and is no longer as simple as the early symptoms of uremia.

4. Drowsiness and fatigue

Because there are indeed too many reasons that cause drowsiness and fatigue. Especially those who are "fighting hard" in their careers mostly attribute it to work stress and fatigue. If the symptoms improve with a little rest, they are more likely to be ignored.

5. Yellow complexion

A yellowish and pale complexion is actually a symptom of anemia caused by the accumulation of toxins in the body of uremia patients and the weakening of hematopoietic function. However, this symptom is often misdiagnosed and is always regarded as iron deficiency anemia. Therefore, when the early symptoms of uremia, which is easily misdiagnosed, appear and the cause is unknown, it is recommended to have a full-body physical examination including renal function, uremia, kidney B-ultrasound, etc.