Chronic Nephritis - How To Protect Our Kidneys?

Firstly, we need to pay attention to our kidneys. According to statistics from relevant institutions, about one-tenth of Chinese people have kidney damage, but they are not aware of it, so this disease has a strong hidden nature. The actual situation is indeed the same. Kidney disease does not have any obvious symptoms, and patients may continue to live as usual, only feeling slightly fatigued and prone to low back pain. However, due to the lack of examination, the results have been delayed, and many people have indeed experienced significant physical discomfort. When they go for the examination, it is already renal failure.

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The relationship between chronic nephritis and renal failure is as follows: at the beginning, it is chronic nephritis, then the damage of renal function intensifies, turning into a period of renal insufficiency and compensation (that is, the remaining kidneys can still complete most of the work), then a period of renal insufficiency and decompensation (that is, the beginning cannot complete the work), and finally a period of complete renal failure, that is, what we call Uremia. According to Western medicine, chronic nephritis will eventually develop, Entering the stage of renal failure is only a matter of time.

However, traditional Chinese medicine does not believe that chronic nephritis can be treated, which can prevent the development and recovery of kidney disease. Under the treatment of some doctors, renal dysfunction can also be maintained or even reversible. But to be honest, what I have seen and heard is that in the stage of renal insufficiency, most of it is just maintenance, and the final result is often not good.

So, it is crucial to seize the early stage of chronic nephritis and intensify treatment, otherwise, it will be too late to repent.

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However, people often overlook the treatment of this disease, and some even feel that there is a slight hematuria, but life and work are not hindered. Therefore, they ignore the treatment, continue to work hard, and continue to sing night and night. As a result, one day, upon examination, they entered the stage of kidney failure, which is very regrettable.

So, what knowledge do we need to know about preventing and treating kidney disease?

We should know that chronic nephritis is not completely equivalent to kidney deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine.

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Chronic nephritis refers to the pathological changes in the anatomical kidney parenchyma, which is the organ that filters metabolic waste from the blood and ultimately excretes it from urine. If there is an infection in certain parts of our body, such as throat infection and inflammation, a complex of various bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms enters the bloodstream. As the blood circulates, it will eventually reach the kidneys, as the entire body's blood must flow through the kidneys, filtering out the waste in the blood. At this time, these foreign substances deposit in the Glomerular basement membrane, and the kidney will produce an immune response, which is nephritis.

The last time I wrote an article about how oral diseases can cause nephritis, a netizen left a message asking, does it mean that every infection in the body can cause nephritis. In principle, this is the case. Even long-term infections of some sores are also the cause of the disease, but not all infections can cause nephritis. There is a certain proportion of this, and the most likely problem is throat infections. And the infection of teeth and periodontium is only more persistent, so the rate is also very high.

Let's talk about kidney deficiency again. In traditional Chinese medicine, kidney deficiency refers to the kidney in traditional Chinese medicine. This kidney is a system that includes the anatomical essence of the kidney, as well as other functions such as reproductive and essence storage. Kidney deficiency refers to the weakness of the kidney system in traditional Chinese medicine. Kidney deficiency should be the foundation of chronic nephritis, but the two cannot be directly equated.

So, when it comes to nephritis in the past, if you think the patient's waist is sore, you need to tonify the kidney, but the clinical effect is not ideal. For a long time, chronic nephritis has been a difficult disease. However, Mr. Zhao Shaoqin, the late master of traditional Chinese medicine at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, said:

Chronic nephritis is often caused by dampness and heat, with kidney stasis. At this time, it is necessary to disperse wind and evil, cool blood, and promote blood circulation, which is the treatment method. Simply tonifying the kidney is often the more severe the treatment. This is Zhao Lao's "Nonempty theory of chronic kidney disease".

So, according to Zhao Lao's viewpoint, kidney disease cannot be treated with excessive use of tonics.

My opinion is that if the patient is indeed weak in the spleen and kidney, it can be appropriately adjusted and replenished. However, if there is dampness, heat, and blood stasis, it must be based on cooling blood and promoting blood circulation to adjust and replenish. However, cooling blood and promoting blood circulation, and dispersing wind and evil are the top priority.

How does chronic nephritis come about?

Western medicine believes that chronic nephritis is caused by the body being infected, the products and complexes of viruses and bacteria entering the bloodstream, and the kidneys producing immune responses. This research is still ongoing, and now it is even believed that this invasion affects the hematopoietic system in the bone marrow. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body experiences external pathogens, which enter the body and hide in the kidneys, leading to dampness, heat, and stasis in the kidney meridians, thus becoming a disease.

This disease is explained by the theory of warm diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, which is very relevant. There is a theory of protecting qi and nourishing blood in warm diseases. Professor Zhao Shaoqin believes that this is because external pathogens enter the nourishing blood, and ultimately even enter the medullary fraction (which was added by Zhao Lao), leading to this disease, which is very appropriate.

So, both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine believe that the main cause of kidney disease is the invasion of external pathogenic factors. The most common one is throat infections caused by colds.

Many people think that catching a cold is just a minor illness, but in fact, its harm is great. Many people recover after a few days of catching a cold, but there are also people who, due to catching a cold, suffer from infections in the throat and other areas, ultimately leading to kidney disease. That is to say, most patients with chronic nephritis may develop nephritis after a cold. Patients with nephritis are more likely to continue to catch colds in the future, leading to more severe kidney damage.

So, some doctors even suggest that patients undergo a routine urine test after each cold to determine if they have kidney damage.

In addition to catching a cold, I have also seen a lot of chronic kidney disease caused by decoration pollution. I have asked patients with chronic kidney disease, and many of them had their homes decorated within six months. My mother had chronic kidney disease back then, which also occurred during the decoration process. I think this should be at least a related factor, and the mechanism behind it is still very poorly studied, and there are even very few relevant medical reports. I only present the phenomena I have observed here and cannot be seen as the results of systematic research.

In addition, familial genetic factors cannot be ignored. Chronic nephritis is a disease with familial clustering, which is a globally recognized fact in the medical community. Western medical research has shown that it is related to a certain genetic deficiency. I think this factor also needs attention, for example, in my own family, there are many relatives of my mother's family who suffer from kidney disease. So, if there are people in the family who suffer from chronic kidney disease, then they should take good care of their kidneys.

In addition to the previous factors, there is also kidney damage caused by improper medication. For example, many antibiotics and certain traditional Chinese medicines such as Guanmu Tong have nephrotoxicity, which can lead to kidney damage. Even these drugs can directly lead to renal failure, so it is also necessary to be vigilant.

In addition, insufficient positive qi and poor mood are also pathogenic factors. If there is sufficient positive qi, external evil is not easy to invade and there will be no more serious problems. Therefore, insufficient positive qi is the foundation of all diseases. Poor mood, leading to disorder of qi and blood, is also a pathogenic basis.

What are the symptoms of chronic nephritis?

In fact, many patients do not have obvious symptoms, only problems were found during the urine test during the physical examination. Below, we summarize some easily overlooked symptoms for everyone to understand.

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Edema

One of the symptoms of chronic nephritis is edema, which is usually located on the eyelids, calves, and ankles. There used to be an old saying, '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 severe. This can be used as a reference. Severe kidney disease can result in ascites. If you find yourself frequently swollen, you need to go to the hospital for a urine test to rule out nephritis.

weakness

The second symptom of chronic nephritis is fatigue. In fact, fatigue is the most important symptom of chronic kidney disease. But because there are so many people with Suboptimal health, most people often feel fatigue and fatigue. In this way, the signal of kidney disease is often ignored. This is regrettable, but it is true that many patients with kidney failure have reported feeling weak and unable to walk recently, which was only discovered during the hospital examination. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone pay attention to this matter.

Lumbar acid

The third symptom of chronic nephritis is low back pain. Due to the accumulation of dampness and heat in the kidney meridians, which leads to meridian stasis, there may be symptoms of low back pain. This type of low back pain can be immediately relieved with medication that unblocks the meridians. At the same time, the kidney deficiency mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine can also lead to lower back pain, which, combined with the previous damp heat, makes the problem more complex. If you feel that you often have low back pain, you should first rule out the possibility of chronic nephritis, and then consider the factor of kidney deficiency.

Foam urine

The fourth symptom of chronic nephritis is foam urine. This is because there is lost protein in the urine. Because of the damage to the Glomerular basement membrane, the protein will be lost in the process of filtering blood. At this time, go to the routine urine inspection, and you will find that there is a residual protein in the urine.

Hematuria

The fifth symptom of chronic nephritis is hematuria. Hematuria can be divided into naked-eye hematuria and microscopic hematuria, with naked-eye hematuria being visible to the naked eye. The urine color is like meat washing water, turbid and red in color; Microscopic hematuria can only be detected by observing it under a microscope during routine urine examination. If there is an increase in red blood cells during routine urine examination, the morphology of red blood cells should be checked. If the deformation rate is relatively high, it indicates chronic glomerulonephritis.

hypertension

The sixth symptom of chronic nephritis is hypertension. Because when blood passes through the kidneys for filtration, if the kidneys are obstructed, there will be a signal to the body requesting pressure to pass through, which can lead to hypertension, known as renal hypertension. Conversely, high blood pressure can lead to more severe kidney damage. So, many hypertensive patients do not know that they have kidney disease, so they should be vigilant.

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