How to Alleviate Anemia on Stage 5 CKD

Anemia is a common symptom of stage 5 CKD. How to alleviate this? This article will explain it in details.

Healthy kidneys make a hormone called erythropoietin. Erythropoietin stimulates the bone marrow to make the appropriate number of red blood cells. When the kidneys are not working properly, patients may not have enough erythropoietin or they may be relatively resistant to the effects of erythropoietin.

In this case, the blood will have a reduced number of red blood cells. This is called anemia. Anemia related to reduced kidney function may occur when the kidney function is reduced, and it may occur relatively early in patients who have reduced kidney function because of diabetes.

When significant anemia is present, individuals may have reduced exercise capacity. The heart will work harder to pump the blood and this may cause the heart muscle to thicken. Some patients feel more tired.

If your health care provider discovers anemia, other potential causes should explored. Iron deficiency is very common and patients need robust iron stores to make red blood cells. You may need oral or even intravenous iron. Low iron could mean chronic blood loss.

If iron stores are very low, you should also be evaluated with studies like colonoscopy to find the potential source of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract. If iron stores are sufficient, then patients with reduced kidney function and moderate to severe anemia can be treated with erythropoietin injections.
Treatment with erythropoietin injections requires careful monitoring with frequent blood work, regular dose titration and regular injections. The best target blood count is not known but the safest strategy appears to target for a mild anemia rather than aiming for normal blood counts.


The natural treatments in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital not only can alleviate anemia, but also can achieve the function of improving the kidney function.

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.