How to Alleviate Itching Skin on Kidney Failure

Kidney failure is progressive loss of kidney function, with progressive kidney disease, some symptoms occur such as itching skin, anemia, appetite.

Kidney disease presents variousrash and itching in kidney disease. discomforts, among which rash and itching are the common symptoms. Rash and itching causes damages to skin. And they are also risk factors of infection, which affects patients’ life quality.

Causes of rash and itching

There are several reasons for rash and itching

Accumulation of urea nitrogen

Urea nitrogen is the main product of protein metabolism. Once kidney gets impaired, it fails to excrete urea nitrogen adequately. Accordingly, urea nitrogen will deposit in body. Through the flowing of blood, it will affect sebaceous gland and sweat gland. Thereby, there appears rash and itching as sebaceous gland and sweat gland shrink.

Hyperparathyroidism

Kidney disease usually presents high serum phosphorus, which tends to cause hyperparathyroidism. Hyperparathyroidism also responsible for skin itching.
Primary disease

Certain disease, such as purpura and lupus tend to develop kidney disease. Rash and itching are common symptoms of these diseases.

Treatment

Since there are different causes, there needs different treatment to deal with rash and itching.

If rash and itching are caused by accumulation of urea nitrogen, protein intake limitation is helpful. If it is at the end stage of kidney disease, dialysis contributes to removing the excessive urea nitrogen out of the body.

If they are caused by hyperparathyroidism, making serum phosphorus under control matters a lot in dealing with rash and itching.

And if the reason is primary disease, active treatment to primary disease helps a lot to alleviate rash and itching.

No matter what cause it may be, the root cause is kidney function aggravation. Therefore, the necessary treatment should be taken to improve kidney function.


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