Among the friends who left me a message, many people asked about kidney disease, that is, chronic nephritis. I don’t have the energy to answer them one by one, so I will answer here together, some knowledge about chronic kidney disease.
First of all, we must pay attention to our kidneys. According to the statistics of relevant organizations, about one tenth of the Chinese people have kidney damage, but they do not know it. Therefore, this disease is very hidden. The actual situation is indeed the same. Kidney disease does not have any obvious symptoms. The patient may live as usual, but feels a little tired and prone to back pain. However, because there is no examination, the results have been delayed. Many people really feel obviously unwell, and when they go for examination, they have already suffered from renal failure.
The relationship between chronic nephritis and renal failure is like this. At the beginning, it was chronic nephritis, and then the renal function damage aggravated, and it became a compensatory period of renal insufficiency (that is, the remaining kidney can do most of the work), and then the kidney Insufficiency and decompensation (unable to complete work at the beginning), and finally complete renal failure, which is what we call uremia. According to Western medicine, chronic nephritis will eventually develop and enter the stage of renal failure. It is just a matter of time. .
But Chinese medicine does not think so. Chinese medicine believes that chronic nephritis can be cured, which can prevent the development of kidney disease and recover. Under the treatment of some doctors, renal insufficiency can also be maintained or even reversible. But to be honest, what I have seen and heard is that at the stage of renal insufficiency, it is mostly just maintenance, and the final result is often not good.
Therefore, it is very important to seize the stage of chronic nephritis that has just appeared and step up treatment, otherwise it will be too late.
However, people often ignore the treatment of this disease, and some people even feel a little hematuria, but life and work are not hindered, so they ignore the treatment, continue to work hard, and continue to sing and sing every night. It is very regrettable to enter the stage of renal failure.
So, what do we need to know about the prevention and treatment of kidney disease?
We need to know that chronic nephritis is not exactly the same as kidney deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine.
Chronic nephritis is a disease of the kidney parenchyma in anatomy. This kidney, which is what we usually call the kidney, is the organ that filters the metabolic waste in the blood and finally excretes it in the urine. If there is an infection in some parts of our body, such as a throat infection, the complex of various bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms will enter the blood, and as the blood circulates, it will eventually reach the kidneys, because the blood of the whole body must flow through the kidneys , to filter waste from the blood. At this time, these foreign substances are deposited on the glomerular basement membrane, and the kidney will produce an immune response. This immune response is nephritis.
Last time I wrote an article that oral diseases can cause nephritis, some netizens left a message asking, does it mean that infection in every part of the body can cause nephritis? In principle, this is the case. Even long-term infections of some sores are the source of the disease, but not all infections can cause nephritis. There is a certain ratio, and the most prone to problems are throat infections. The periodontal infection of the teeth is only more persistent, so the rate is also very high.
Let's talk about kidney deficiency again. The kidney deficiency mentioned in Chinese medicine refers to the kidney in Chinese medicine. The kidney is a system, including the essence of the anatomical kidney, and also includes other functions such as reproduction and storage of essence. This kidney deficiency refers to the kidney in Chinese medicine. Weakness of the kidney system, kidney deficiency should be a basis of chronic nephritis, but the two cannot be directly equated.
Therefore, when nephritis was mentioned in the past, it was felt that patients with backache should invigorate the kidney, but the clinical effect was not ideal. For a long time, chronic nephritis was a difficult disease. However, the late Mr. Zhao Shaoqin, a master of traditional Chinese medicine at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, said:
Chronic nephritis is mostly caused by damp heat and kidney stasis. At this time, it is necessary to disperse wind and pathogens, cool blood and activate blood. This is Mr. Zhao's "chronic kidney disease is not empty theory".
Therefore, according to Mr. Zhao's point of view, kidney disease cannot abuse tonic.
My point of view is that if the patient is indeed weak in the spleen and kidney, it can be adjusted and supplemented appropriately. However, if there is damp heat and blood stasis, it must be based on cooling blood and promoting blood circulation. However, cooling blood and promoting blood circulation, dredging Dispelling wind and evil is the first.
How does chronic nephritis come from?
Western medicine believes that chronic nephritis is caused by the body being infected, the products of viruses and bacteria and their complexes entering the blood circulation, and the kidneys producing an immune response. hematopoietic system. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the human body senses exogenous evils, the exogenous evils enter the body and hide in the kidneys, causing damp heat and blood stasis to block the kidney meridian, thus causing disease.
This disease is explained by the warm disease theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which is very suitable. Warm disease has the theory of Wei Qi Ying Xue. Professor Zhao Shaoqin believes that this is because external evils have entered the Ying blood, and finally even entered the marrow (this marrow is Zhao It is very appropriate to cause this disease.
Therefore, whether it is traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, it is believed that the kidney disease is mainly caused by the invasion of external pathogenic factors. The most common of these are throat infections caused by colds.
Many people think that a cold is a minor illness, but in fact it is very harmful. Many people recover from a cold within a few days. However, some people have throat infections due to colds and eventually kidney disease. In other words, most patients with chronic nephritis may develop nephritis after a cold. Patients with nephritis are more likely to catch colds in the future, which makes the kidney damage more serious.
Therefore, some doctors even recommend that patients have a routine urine test after each cold to determine whether they have kidney damage.
In addition to the cause of colds, I have seen more chronic kidney disease caused by decoration pollution. I have asked patients with chronic nephritis, and many of them have renovated their homes within half a year. My mother suffered from chronic nephritis, and it was also in the process of renovation happened in. I think this should be at least a related factor, and the mechanism is still not enough researched, and there are even very few related medical reports. I am just presenting the phenomenon I observed here, which cannot be regarded as the result of systematic research.
In addition, family genetic factors can not be ignored. The disease of chronic nephritis has familial clustering, which is a fact recognized by the medical community all over the world. Western medicine research shows that it is related to a certain gene deficiency. I think this factor should also attract attention. For example, in my own family, many relatives in my mother's line suffer from kidney disease. Therefore, if there is a person with chronic kidney disease in the family, then you must protect your kidneys.
In addition to the previous factors, there is also kidney damage caused by improper medication. For example, many antibiotics and some traditional Chinese medicines such as Guan Mu Tong are toxic to the kidneys and can cause kidney damage. Even these drugs can directly lead to renal failure, so we must be vigilant.
In addition, lack of righteousness and poor mood are also pathogenic factors. If righteousness is sufficient, external evils will not easily invade and there will be no more serious problems. Therefore, lack of righteousness is the basis of all diseases. And bad mood, leading to Qi and blood disorders, is also a pathogenic basis.
What are the symptoms of chronic nephritis?
In fact, many patients have no obvious symptoms, but the urine test found problems during the physical examination. Below we summarize some symptoms that are easily overlooked for everyone to grasp.
edema
One of the symptoms of chronic nephritis is edema, which is generally located on the eyelids, calves, and ankles. There is an old saying in the past, "Men are afraid of wearing boots, women are afraid of wearing hats", which means that men's legs will be more swollen, and women's facial edema will be more serious. This statement can be used as a reference. Ascites can be seen in severe kidney disease. If you find that you often swell, you need to go to the hospital for a urine test to rule out nephritis.
fatigue
The second symptom of chronic nephritis is fatigue. In fact, fatigue is the most important symptom of chronic kidney disease. However, because there are so many sub-healthy people, most people often feel tired and weak. In this way, the signal of kidney disease is often ignored. . This is very regrettable, but it is true that many patients with renal failure report that they feel tired and unable to walk recently, and only then go to the hospital for an examination and find out, so I remind everyone to pay attention to this matter.
backache
The third symptom of chronic nephritis is backache. Because damp heat accumulates in the kidney meridians, leading to stasis of the meridians, there will be symptoms of backache. This kind of backache will be relieved immediately with medicines that dredge the meridians. At the same time, the kidney deficiency mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine can also lead to backache. This factor combined with the previous damp and heat makes the problem more complicated. If you feel that you often have backache, you should rule out the possibility of chronic nephritis first, and then consider the factors of kidney deficiency.
foamy urine
The fourth symptom of chronic nephritis is foamy urine. This is because there is protein lost in the urine. Because of the damage of the glomerular basement membrane, protein will be lost in the process of filtering the blood. At this time, if you do a routine urine test, you will find protein remaining in the urine.
blood urine
The fifth symptom of chronic nephritis is hematuria. Hematuria can be divided into gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria. Gross hematuria is hematuria that is visible to the naked eye. It can only be found under a microscope. If the erythrocytes are increased in the urine routine examination, the morphology of the erythrocytes should be checked. If the deformation rate is relatively high, it means chronic glomerulonephritis.
hypertension
The sixth symptom of chronic nephritis is high blood pressure. Because when the blood is filtered through the kidneys, if the kidneys are blocked, the blood will pass through obstacles, and it will send a signal to the body, requiring pressure to pass through, which will lead to high blood pressure, which is called renal hypertension. High blood pressure, in turn, can lead to more severe kidney damage. Therefore, many hypertensive patients do not know that they have developed kidney disease, so they should be vigilant.
Okay, dear friends, because I have seen many patients with kidney disease recently, I will continue to introduce kidney disease to you, hoping that everyone can take precautions and protect themselves and their families!
