Self-care For Patients With Kidney Disease
May 16, 2022
People with kidney disease often ask me, "Can my kidney disease be cured?" For most people, I will shake my head and say "no". Because, as is the case, chronic kidney disease is difficult to cure and requires a long management cycle. No doctor will tell you that after taking his medicine, it will be cured, so don't worry about it. Those who promise that the cure rate is high, and even claim to you that uremia can be cured, are staring at your pocket. money in your pocket, not thinking about curing your disease. But we kidney disease patients will think: "Can't be cured? Doesn't that mean there's no cure?" What I want to tell you is: it can't be cured, and it won't delay us living to 80 years old!
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No one's kidneys are perfect
Chronic kidney disease refers to the existence of various damaged lesions in the kidneys for more than 3 months. But in fact, the kidneys of healthy people are also "damaged"! No one's kidneys are perfect. Do you think I'm talking nonsense? Don't be in a hurry to object. As we all know, the functional units of our kidneys mainly include glomeruli and renal tubules, and they are responsible for purifying the blood. 2 kidneys add up to about 2 million such nephrons.
Patients with kidney disease have various causes and types of kidney disease. However, no matter what type of chronic kidney disease, the final path of progression is the same: continuous sclerosis and fibrosis of glomeruli and tubules. From local sclerosis of the glomerulus to global sclerosis, from a small amount of glomerulosclerosis to a large amount of glomerulosclerosis. When most of the glomeruli and tubules are hardened, it means that the kidneys do not work at all, which is what we often call uremia. (However, the worsening process of kidney disease is not inevitable, and human intervention can delay or prevent this process from happening.)
And what you may not know is: that healthy people also have glomerulosclerosis! Even those with particularly healthy kidneys who could go to donate a kidney were found to have glomerulosclerosis by analyzing their kidney pathology.
Is it strange that normal people have glomerulosclerosis like kidney friends? In fact, studies have found that spherical sclerosis can be seen in normal people of any age! The older you are, the higher the percentage. However, they are not caused by kidney disease, but by normal "wear and tear".
Just like a machine, it will wear out more or less over time! In people in their 30s and 40s, spherical sclerosis in healthy people can account for 10%, and when they are 80 years old, the proportion of sclerosis can reach 30%. The estimation method for the proportion of spherical sclerosis is age ÷ 2-10. So from this point of view, people who eat whole grains are not immortals. Whose kidneys haven't been hurt by stumbling and stumbling? You have it, I have it, they have it too!
However, many of our kidney friends demand that the kidney must be perfect. If it is not perfect, it will not be accepted, and if it is not cured, it will not be accepted! No one can do it, why do you suffer for yourself? Wearing the hat of "chronic kidney disease", you always think that you are "a flawed person", "lower than others", "finished", or "this is the case in this life", there is no need!
It's okay to have imperfect kidneys
It doesn't matter if you are not perfect, just live a good life with kidney disease. Because our kidney baby has a strong compensatory ability, and the loss is only about 10%, it has reached the point where it has to strike and needs dialysis. At the age of 80, the kidney function of healthy people loses 30%, and our kidney friends lose 80%, so 20% is still enough? Aren't they all laughing at life?
Kidney disease has occurred, and there is nothing we can do to turn things around! But what we can do is to use scientific means to protect our sturdy glomeruli as soon as possible, and let them wear out slowly, as close as possible to the speed of normal people's wear and tear. So, this requires us, kidney patients, not to refuse to accept our own disease, to believe in science, to believe in doctors, and not to go to the doctor in a hurry.
According to the survey, most of our kidney patients in China are still in the early stage of kidney disease, and there is full hope that the development of the disease can be controlled. But many kidney friends have an ostrich mentality. They are afraid to face the fact that they have kidney disease, and dare not re-examine. Anyway, kidney disease has no symptoms. It is better to spend a lot of money to try those remedies without reliable research evidence than to review and take medicine according to scientific and standardized methods.
We already have a lot of research data on which factors continue to accelerate glomerulosclerosis:
glomerular hyperfiltration high pressure
Glomerular hypertrophy
Proteinuria over 500-1000mg
hypertension
anemia
diabetes
Environmental exposure (eg lead and mercury)
Nephrotoxic drugs (such as pain relievers)
smoking
high-salt high-protein diet
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