What causes End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) ? Many people know that Uremia is
an awful disease and it is the final period of kidney disease. People always
call ESRD deathless cancer because it is extraordinarily difficult to cure it.
Patients with severe Uremia can only sustain their lives through receiving
dialysis.
What are the causes of ESRD and how to prevent it?
1. 30% of the Diabetes can directly develop into ESRD Diabetes. Recent
statistics show that in China, there are 43.2 million patients with Diabetes and
50.64 million patients with decreased sugar tolerance. That is to say that there
are 13 million Uremia patients and more than 15 million Uremia high-risk people
in China with Diabetes as the only cause.
2. 15% of the patients with Hypertension will directly develop into ESRD
sufferers. According to China’s statistics in 1998, the Hypertension patients
account for 10% of the total population which means that there is one
Hypertension sufferer in every 10 people, among whom one and a half people will
become Uremia patients.
3. Caused by urinary system infection or urinary tract infection. According
to the statistical data, in China the incidence of urinary infection is 0.23%
for men and 2.37% for women. Men and women, the old and the young all can suffer
this disease especially the married women in childbearing age. In our country,
chronic Pyelonephritis is the second biggest reason for Uremia, taking up 21.2%
of the total number.
4. Kidney disease is the main cause of ESRD and all the chronic kidney
diseases will eventually develop into Uremia. Among them, chronic nephritis is
the top reason and in the diseases resulting in Uremia, chronic
glomerulonephritis accounts for 55.7% of them.
5. Related to age. The old people in China accounts for 10% of the total
population and by 2025, the proportion of elderly people above 60 among the
total population will reach 19.3%. The physical examinations show that 17.3% of
the elderly suffer from different renal diseases and among the patients in
hospital, the old with urinary system diseases takes up 3.4%---6.3% of them. It
is the eighth cause of death of the old patients in hospital.
6. Caused by drugs’ toxic side effects of different degrees. Some researches
prove that about 25% of renal failure is related to renal toxicity of the
drugs.
Only after fully understanding the causes of ESRD, can we effectively prevent
it and reduce its harms.
Then, how to prevent ESRD? Pay attention to the following four aspects in
order to prevent ESRD:
1. Prevent the occurrence of diseases leading to renal dysfunction and if
these diseases had occurred, put their deterioration under strict control and
closely monitor renal functions. The clearance rate of creatine, which is the
most sensitive index of kidney disease, should be examined once every 3 to 6
months.
2. Protect the kidney. Health physical examinations should be done once every
half or one year and the examination items should include renal functions (blood
creatinine, urea nitrogen and clearance rate of creatinine), B ultrasound, and
urine analysis and so on.
3. Nowadays, patients with Uremia do not attach enough importance to the
early treatments, and as a result, many of them lose the best opportunity of
treatment. Positive formal traditional Chinese medicine treatment should be
recommended, because it can enhance the compensatory effects of other organs on
renal function, ease the burden of kidney and promote the recovery of damaged
renal function. Through that, patients with early Uremia can keep their renal
functions within a normal range for a long time.
4. Avoid taking medicines with renal toxic. For more information, please
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