Be Alert with Early Signs of Chronic Kidney Disease

Usually when people are attacked by Chronic Kidney Disease, they are suffering the renal insufficient which means the less then 50% kidney function. This is because that at the early stage, patients have no obvious symptoms or have no idea and attention to the symptoms, so they miss the best time for treatment. Today, this article will have a analysis about the early signs of Chronic Kidney Disease, and we hope what we mentioned can do something for you.

From recent studies, it shows that expenses for kidney treatment increased which have become a great burden to health care expenditures and an impact to society too due to unhealthy eating habit, aging of population, etc. Well, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a kind of latent disease, which means that patients are not found to have chronic kidney disease until end stage of renal disease when they have obvious discomforts. So, recognizing early signs of chronic kidney disease can help patients take action at early stage to prevent the disease from advancing to kidney failure or delay the progress. Well, what are the early signs of chronic kidney disease?

Among the five stages of CKD, at the first two stages, there is some clue actually like swelling in eyelids, hands, legs and feet, etc. Fatigue, headache or slight high blood pressure, abnormal urine output, frequent night urination, foamy urine, blood in urine, rusty or brown urine, pain in lower pole of ribs in lower back, etc.

Patients at third and fourth stage of chronic kidney disease, failing to pass metabolic waste and fluid would have nausea, vomit, bad appetite, swelling, high blood pressure, headache, anemia, difficulty breath or even bone disease. At this stage, if they still do not pay attention to it, then next step, they enter into the final stage and have to rely on dialysis.

So, we have to remind patients to mind those pre-uremia symptoms which refer to foamy urine (proteinuria), swelling, high blood pressure, anemia, fatigue etc.


If you have the above-mentioned five signs without clear causes, we suggest that you find nephrologist or go to specialized kidney disease hospitals and run some relevant tests. And if there are family disease histories, such high blood pressure, diabetes, Polycystic Kidney Disease, heart disease and so on,you had better have the regular tests and control this disease with a healthy life. All in all, be alert with early signs of Chronic Kidney Disease and have a prevention in case the further kidney damage. If you want to know more information about CKD, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.