Will Renal Failure Cause Nausea?

The kidney has three kinds of main functions which include cleaning the toxins in blood, balancing the water, electrolyte and acid-base and secreting elements to support the normal activities of patients. So once the kidney are damaged, patients will suffer many symptoms with the kidney function decline, such high blood pressure, nausea, weak and so on.

Will renal failure cause nausea? Generally speaking, people consider nausea is caused by the digestive system and gastrointestinal problems, but something has been ignored that renal failure may cause some clinical symptoms like nausea, anorexia and weakness too. Then, why renal failure will cause nausea?

1. Firstly, the reason renal failure cause nausea is blame to the increase of urea nitrogen. It is well known that when you get renal failure, your urea nitrogen level will increase in your body and urease can decompose the urea into ammonia, which stimulates the gastrointestinal mucosa, thus people will feel nausea obviously.

On this occasion, patients should check frequently in order to know the situation of your body in the near future. In addition, a low salt, protein diet is recommended to patients with renal failure when you feel nausea, finally, keep a good mindset is also beneficial to your recovery of damaged kidney.

2. When you get renal failure, the concentration function of urine decreased, which leads to the increase of frequent urine in the night of patients. Thus blood will be concentrated and finally the urea nitrogen will increase, then patients with renal failure will feel nausea seriously.

Some kidney experts tell us that the symptom of nausea is obvious especially in the morning. Experts suggest the solution for this situation is to take enough water in the morning so as to keep the stable of the urea nitrogen level, which can avoid the accentuation of nausea effectively.


Renal failure patients should pay more attention to the symptom of nausea. And if you want to know more information about renal failure or ask for treatment, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com, we will reply you within 24 hours.