These four bad habits are most harmful to your kidneys. Check to see if you have any of them!

Kidney disease is a disease with high morbidity and mortality. Its early symptoms are very hidden, and many people often get kidney disease without knowing it. Bad daily habits such as improper diet, drug abuse, ignoring colds, and holding urine for a long time are actually the most likely to damage kidney health.

Eat whatever you want and your kidneys will be overwhelmed

Many people suffer from kidney disease because of what they eat without realizing it. The kidney is an important organ in the human body that is responsible for excreting waste and toxins. Eating too much salty, sweet, oily food, or too much protein will increase the burden on the kidneys. Long-term high-load work will naturally make the kidneys prone to disease.

Eating too much salt can easily cause high blood pressure. Hypertension is a systemic disease, and it is often a pair of "twin sisters" with kidney disease. In recent years, the incidence of kidney damage caused by hypertension has continued to rise. Therefore, we should adhere to a low-salt diet in our daily life, and the daily salt intake should be 5 to 6 grams.

Eating too much sweet and oily food will not only increase the burden on the kidneys, but also cause obesity. Obesity will lead to increased fat content, weight, volume and glomerular hypertrophy in the kidneys. Obese patients are also prone to insulin resistance, which in turn leads to diabetes. Nearly 40% of diabetic patients will develop diabetic nephropathy, which is one of the most difficult kidney diseases to treat.

Eating too much protein will increase the blood uric acid concentration in the body and cause hyperuricemia. The increased blood uric acid concentration is very toxic to the kidneys and can easily cause lesions in the renal tubules and renal interstitium, and eventually develop into chronic renal failure, i.e. uremia.

Taking medicine randomly can easily damage your kidneys

Mr. Wang has been suffering from colds, headaches and nasal congestion recently. In order to get rid of the cold quickly, he took a few cold medicines at home. After a day, the symptoms did not ease, so he took a few more antibiotics. Unexpectedly, that afternoon, Mr. Wang suddenly felt back pain, and after a while he couldn't even straighten his back. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed Mr. Wang with acute nephritis. Cases of kidney damage caused by drug abuse like Mr. Wang are not uncommon in recent years.

A lot of "garbage" produced in the human body is excreted in urine through the kidneys, including the metabolites of drugs in the body. Some drugs have obvious adverse reactions to the kidneys, including antibiotics such as gentamicin and kanamycin, non-steroidal antipyretic analgesics and some compound cold medicines. Therefore, patients who have not been clearly diagnosed with bacterial infection colds should not take antibiotics on their own. After a cold or fever, you should not take medicine at will, but take it correctly according to your own symptoms under the guidance of a doctor. Especially those with poor kidney function and chronic kidney disease should be more cautious in taking medicine.

In addition to the above-mentioned drugs, long-term use of certain anti-tumor chemotherapy drugs, Chinese patent medicines for weight loss, female contraceptives, etc. can also cause varying degrees of kidney damage.

Ignore colds and your kidneys may get sick

Taking antibiotics as soon as you catch a cold can damage your kidneys, but if you delay seeing a doctor and ignore treatment, seemingly minor colds, pharyngitis and other diseases can also cause kidney disease. This is because infection is also a common cause of kidney disease.

Acute pharyngitis and acute upper respiratory tract infection can easily cause acute glomerulonephritis or acute attack of chronic nephritis. Therefore, every time the weather turns cold or the temperature changes significantly, the number of new kidney disease patients and patients with worsening conditions admitted to the hospital will increase, and many kidney disease patients have a history of colds before the onset of the disease. Studies have found that the onset of acute glomerulonephritis is mostly related to hemolytic streptococcal infection, and this type of nephritis has a certain incubation period. Patients generally show symptoms of nephritis only after the symptoms of the cold are alleviated or subsided. The main manifestations are: hematuria, that is, the urine is turbid reddish brown; edema, and most of them appear on the face first, especially in the eyelids, and in severe cases, they will also appear in the lower limbs. In addition, there may be systemic symptoms such as headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of appetite, etc. Therefore, if the above symptoms appear after a cold, the treatment of acute nephritis must not be ignored.

In addition to common upper respiratory tract infections, common infectious diseases such as pneumonia and hepatitis can also cause different types of kidney disease. In order to protect the health of the kidneys, you should strengthen exercise in your daily life, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, improve your body's immunity, actively prevent colds, and don't let viruses damage your kidneys.

Be careful of nephritis if you hold your urine for a long time

Some inconspicuous bad habits in daily life can also cause kidney disease. Ms. Zhang is very busy at work. When she gets busy, she forgets to drink water and often "procrastinates" going to the toilet. Over time, she has developed the habit of holding urine. Last year, the company organized a physical examination, and Ms. Zhang found that she had chronic nephritis. Holding urine for a long time is not only easy to cause bladder damage, but also urine that stays in the bladder for a long time can easily cause bacterial reproduction. Once it flows back to the ureter and kidneys, the toxic substances in it will cause kidney infection, thereby causing urinary tract infection, nephritis and even uremia. Therefore, no matter how busy you are at work, don't forget to drink water frequently and go to the toilet on time. Once you develop the habit of holding urine, it will affect the health of the kidneys unknowingly. Kidney disease often has no special symptoms in the early stages, and many patients regret it only when they have an acute attack or the disease enters the late stage.

Once again, we remind you that in addition to regular urine routine and kidney function tests, you should not ignore symptoms such as back pain, edema, urine color changes, increased urination at night, anemia or hypertension that has not been cured. Once you find any clues of kidney disease, you must seek medical attention in time.