You must know these 4 invisible "killers" that harm your kidneys!

Recently, a young man in Guangdong was drinking and swallowed a toothpick to distinguish the wine glass. The toothpick pierced his kidney and he needed emergency medical treatment. It is very dangerous for a toothpick to penetrate the intestine and into the kidney. Once the kidney capsule is pierced, it will cause heavy bleeding and seriously endanger life. In daily life, there are countless cases of emergency medical treatment due to carelessness, lack of attention to the kidneys, and lack of common sense. We must know some invisible "killers" and common sense that harm the kidneys to avoid such things from happening.

Don't drink too much water

Many people believe that drinking a lot of water is good for the body, whether it is when you are sick or after exercise. However, this is not the case. Drinking too much water will not only increase the burden on the kidneys, but also cause water poisoning. Excessive burden on the kidneys will cause or accelerate kidney damage; water poisoning can lead to hyponatremia, dizziness, vomiting, weakness, and rapid heartbeat. In severe cases, it can also cause convulsions, coma, and serious life-threatening situations. Therefore, in daily life, you must pay attention to drinking water moderately.

How to drink water properly

(1) Drink weakly alkaline water. The pH value of water is generally between 7.35 and 7.45. Bottled water and mineral water on the market are generally acidic water.

(2) Do not drink water in the morning, especially boiled water that has been stored for a long time. After boiling water has been stored for a long time, the nitrogen-containing organic matter in it will continue to decompose nitrites. After nitrites combine with hemoglobin, they will affect the blood circulation function. Therefore, water in the morning must not be drunk. Secondly, do not drink salt water when you get up in the morning. Salt water will cause water and sodium retention in the body, increase blood pressure, and seriously endanger health.

(3) Drinking water standards: 1 L per day for children; 2.9 L/d for adult males; 2.2 L/d for adult females; 4.8 L/d for pregnant women; 3.3 L/d for breastfeeding women; in hot weather or when doing heavy physical work, the drinking water standards for different groups should be raised to 4.5 L/d. [1]

Drinking water schedule

Don't take drugs randomly

When many patients are sick, they do not go to the hospital first, but take medicine on their own. However, some medicines cannot be taken randomly. Once taken, they will aggravate the damage of kidney disease. For example, gentamicin, non-steroidal antipyretic analgesics and some compound cold medicines have obvious adverse reactions on the kidneys. Therefore, you cannot take medicine casually after you are sick. You need to take it correctly under the guidance of a doctor, especially patients with renal impairment or chronic kidney disease should be more cautious in taking medicine.

Don't stay up late

Many people, especially young people, are used to staying up late to relieve stress due to work pressure. However, what they don’t know is that frequently staying up late will not only cause hair loss, increase the incidence of sudden cardiac death, and disrupt the body’s biological clock, but also cause the body’s metabolism to become disordered, causing the kidneys that should be resting to continue working, resulting in a decrease in renal reserve function and making it easy to develop kidney disease. Therefore, you must not stay up late, and try not to go to bed later than 11 o’clock at night.

Be careful when eating crayfish

Every summer, a large number of patients go to the hospital for emergency treatment due to rhabdomyolysis syndrome caused by eating crayfish. Rhabdomyolysis syndrome mainly refers to the acute destruction and dissolution of skeletal muscle (striated muscle), releasing a large amount of myoglobin, creatine phosphokinase and other muscle cell contents into the blood, and bringing a series of harmful syndromes. The clinical manifestations are acute muscle pain, muscle cramps and edema, and touching the muscles has a "water injection" feeling. The whole body manifestations include nausea, vomiting, soy sauce-colored urine and even naked hematuria. At present, relevant studies have shown that rhabdomyolysis after eating crayfish is likely to be related to heavy metal pollutants in crayfish, or that the cleaning is not thorough enough during the cleaning of crayfish. In short, crayfish must not be eaten too much, especially patients with kidney disease. In addition, frequent urination, frequent drinking of beverages, drinking less water and excessive protein intake are all harmful to the kidneys, so these bad habits must be avoided in daily life.