The key to preventing kidney disease: Don’t miss these six signals!

1. Lack of energy and poor appetite. When kidney function is poor, many waste products are difficult to excrete from the urine, resulting in a lack of energy, fatigue, weakness and other symptoms. Some patients think that it is due to overwork or other reasons, thus ignoring kidney problems. In addition, kidney disease patients often have many digestive tract symptoms, especially due to gastrointestinal edema, often have digestive dysfunction such as loss of appetite and abdominal distension.

2. Nausea and vomiting. When diabetic patients develop renal failure, the urea nitrogen in the blood increases, and the urease of the intestinal bacteria will decompose urea into ammonia, which will irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa and cause nausea and vomiting. In addition, the kidney's ability to concentrate urine is weakened at this time, which will increase the patient's nocturnal urine volume. The body's water will be lost in large quantities at night, the blood will be concentrated, and the blood urea ammonia level will be relatively high in the morning. Therefore, nausea and vomiting are likely to worsen in the morning.

3. Foamy urine and abnormal urine output. There are many reasons for foamy urine, and kidney disease can also cause this phenomenon. If protein leaks from the kidneys into the urine, the urine will have a lot of foam.

4. Urine protein, occult blood in urine and urinary tract infection. The presence of protein or occult blood in urine is an important indicator of kidney disease, which can be detected by urine routine. However, sometimes doctors who are not specialized in nephrology may ignore this, so it is best for patients to seek medical advice from nephrology doctors. In addition, people who often have urinary tract infections may also develop renal insufficiency over time.

5. Anemia. In addition to excreting waste, the kidneys also secrete hematopoietic hormones. Anemia is also an important signal of kidney damage.

6. Hypertension, gout and hyperuricemia. Hypertension can cause hypertensive nephropathy, also known as hypertensive renal damage, so people with hypertension need to pay more attention. Of course, kidney disease can also cause hypertension. In addition, gout and hyperuricemia are both caused by excessive uric acid in the blood. People with high uric acid in the blood will have uric acid deposited in the kidneys, which will also damage kidney function.