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2015年3月25日星期三

How to Live Well with Chronic Kidney Disease

Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease will suffer from many symptoms and complications, which affects patients’ life quality seriously. So patients are wondering how to live well with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Learn it and live it.

Learn all you can about CKD then live the type of lifestyle that will promote optimum health and wellness.

Have faith in yourself.

Having CKD is a challenge, but believing in yourself can help you to prevail. You can do this!

Be your own best advocate.

Being well-informed will help you to lobby and fight for the treatments that are in your best interest.

Keep tabs on your tests.

Because CKD is a progressive illness, you must monitor your symptoms on an ongoing basis and be up-to-date on all test results. That way you can match treatment and lifestyle options with your symptoms and stages.

Be proactive, take control.

If you are considering a transplant, conduct research and contact a transplant center. In addition, follow your doctor’s recommendations along the way.

Develop strong relationships.

Take time to build a connection with all of the members of you health care team. This will help you to have in-depth conversations and to ask tough questions. Also be sure to nurture your personal relationships and create a solid support network of friends and family.

Exercise and eat right.

In addition to taking your medications or managing a treatment regiment, you must make daily exercise and healthy eating a top priority. Otherwise, you risk becoming sicker, faster.

Recognize that work is good for you.

If you have job, or if you spend your time volunteering, realize that having an outlet that enables you to feel competent and productive is positive for your total well-being. Of course, you may need to consider a reduced schedule or part-time work, but continuing your work schedule should help you stay connected and add to your quality of life.

Make a plan.

Since CKD is a chronic health issue, you need a plan that looks ahead, 3, 5, 7 years in the future. Know your treatment options and contemplate which ones will suit you best. Take time to consider what options you want to pursue if your condition worsens or your symptoms change.

Make it a priority to enjoy each day. Taking control of your health will enable you to feel your best. Recognize that feeling strong and well is what will allow you to do the activities that you enjoy most. So each day, make sure you take time to do just that!


If you want to know more details about the nursing tips for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. You can send email to kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com or leave a message below.

2014年11月27日星期四

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.

2014年10月2日星期四

Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

what is the relationship of Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease?

Kidney disease is common among patients with Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. It is characterized by a persistent and usually progressive decline in renal function as measured by glomerular filtration rate and/or albuminuria. Given the rise in the incidence of obesity, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension, the associated incidence of diabetic nephropathy has reached epidemic proportions in industrialized nations. Treatment of patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN) includes treatment of the underlying Type 2 diabetes and hypertension. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are commonly prescribed to control hypertension and slow the progression of DN. Nevertheless, about 20% of patients eventually progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and require hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or renal transplant. Therefore, we believe an unmet medical need for safe and convenient treatments to retard or reverse the progression of DN persists.

Diabetic Nephropathy is a kind of Kidney disease from long-standing diabetes. Diabetes affects the tiny blood vessels in the glomerulus, a key structure in the kidney composed of capillary blood vessels. This structure is critical for blood filtration. Features of diabetic nephropathy include nephrotic syndrome, which is characterized by excessive protein in the urine, high blood pressure, and progressively impaired kidney function. With severe diabetic nephropathy, kidney failure, end-stage renal disease requiring kidney dialysis or a kidney transplant may result. Also known as intercapillary glomerulonephritis, Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease, and Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome.


Diabetes can progress into Chronic Kidney Disease for a few years, if you happen to have Diabetes, you should seek for proper treatment to treat it. If you can treat it in the best opportunity, there will be difficult to treat it in advanced stage.

2014年9月30日星期二

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.