Anemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease

Generally speaking, anemia occur in the early stage of chronic kidney disease and it will become more and more worse with the decline of kidney function. Patients with anemia have not energy to do everything and they have to suffer the poor quality life. Moreover, anemia also can lead to heart disease, more seriously, it will lead to death. so chronic kidney disease patients with anemia must learn to anemia management for a high quality life.

The cause of anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease

In addition to cleaning the blood, kidneys perform other functions. One of those functions is producing the hormone erythropoietin (EPO). Erythropoietin signals bone marrow to produce red blood cells. As renal disease progresses, the diseased kidneys cannot produce enough erythropoietin, therefore, not as many red blood cells are made. This lack of red blood cells is called anemia.

Red blood cells travel throughout the body and provide oxygen to the organs and tissues. When tissues don’t receive enough oxygen, a person feels tired and may experience foggy thinking associated with anemia.

Symptoms of anemia

Most people with anemia will have one or more of the following symptoms:
Feeling weak
Feeling tired or fatigued
Shortness of breath
Dizziness
Rapid heartbeat
Pale skin and gums
Inability to think clearly

Anemia management

Nearly everyone with end stage renal disease has anemia.Now there are a number of drug options to help with anemia. These drugs are called erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) because they stimulate the formation and production of red blood cells.

But patients who want to get rid of anemia must repair the injured kidney at first. We hospital will use Micro-Chinese Medicine Osomtherapy to treat kidney disease which can expend the blood vessel and dissolve the blood clots in kidney, than excrete these toxins out of body, improving the hypoxic-ischemic condition of kidney and blocking ultra immune response. When the blood in kidney are normal, the kidney function can be reversed. Then it can produce enough hormone erythropoietin (EPO) for body.

Summary


Anemia management plays an important role in improving the life quality and treating Chronic Kidney Disease. So CKD patients must pay more attention to it. And if you want to know more information about CKD, you can send email to kidneyhospiatlabroad@hotmail.com, we would love to solve your problems.