Showing posts with label Kidney Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kidney Disease. Show all posts

2013-11-11

How Can Patients With Kidney Disease Prevent From Getting Cold


1. Cold face and hot feet
Clean your face with cold water every morning and evening.Foot baths can improve the resistance of body.
2. Brown sugar and ginger tea
Boiling the brown sugar and ginger with water instead of coffee,witch can avoid and treat cold effectively.
3. Hot wind blow
At the beginninf of the cold,you can use hair drier blow temple for 3-5minutes.You can below several times per day to reduce symptoms and improve recovery.
4. Breathe hot stream
Pour boiling water into a cup and then do deep breath towards the cup until the water turn to cool several times per day,witch is benefit to the incipience of cold.
5. Massage
Rub two hands till hot and then massage the point.
6. Medicine to guard
People can take some medicine during the influenza pandemic period.
7. Gargle with light salt water
Gargle with light salt water after eating breakfast and supper to eliminate the bacteria in mouth.
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2013-10-13

How Long Can A Person Live On Dialysis With 85% Kidney Failure


He has been on dialysis and goes 4 times a week for 5 years this past 3 weeks his kidneys have shut down completely and i worry because he is a bad diebetic and has lost a leg to the knee because of it.
Generally speaking the mortality rate for dialysis is about 15% for Peritoneal Dialysis patients, at 4 years, and about 25% for Hemodialysis our to 4 years.
What that means is that after 4 year, 85% of Peritoneal Dialysis patients are still alive, and 75% of hemodialysis patients are still alive.
Since the patient is going 3 times a week, this suggest that he is doing hemodialysis. Peritoneal dialysis is generally done daily.
Other figures I have heard say that about 50% of patients are still alive after 7 years.
All of this, though, also depends on the patients original state and other diseases, like diabetes. Being "bad diabetic" is not a good sign. Diabetes does HUGE amounts of damage to the kidneys, and is probably the reason they shut down. it is doubtful that they will start back up....
Dialysis is NOT perfect. It is MUCH better to have functioning kidneys! It is possible that the doctor might recommend increasing the treatments to 4-5 times a week.
The only other possible treatment is a kidney transplant, but being a "bad diabetic" would only ruin the new kidneys, and it is doubtful that the doctor would recommend this.

2013-08-11

Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital In China


Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital is located in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province and is adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin. It was founded in 1986 and has already been a modern Nephrology Institution with a system of medical treatment, teaching and research after 25 years’ development.
Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital is the largest kidney disease specialized hospital with the most complete equipment in China. The construction of the hospital was designed and projected according to the standard of fully-good first class specialized hospital of the government. Our hospital is situated at No.5 Feiyi Road, Shijiazhuang City and is beside the Water Park. The hospital covers an area of 48,000 acres and the total building area is 46,000 ㎡. It is divided into four inpatient buildings A,B,C,D and two multiple-use buildings E and F. There are 1115 staff members and 1090 open beds. Our hospital is one of the kidney disease specialized hospitals with the largest scale and the most abundant medical power.
a. The inspection center is equipped with 96 sets of relevant equipment. The total investment is over 12 million RMB.
b. There are 26 sets of inspection machines in the molecular lab including PCR detector and flow cytometer. It forms a complete system from cell detection to molecular inspection. The total investment is about 8 million RMB.
c. There are 40 dialysis machines and 3 blood filtrating machine and one multi-functional blood purification machine IQ21. There are also 58 sets of blood purification equipment in total with the investment about 10 million RMB.
d. In order to establish webcast hospital, we have bought the most advanced webcast equipment 24 sets including many kinds of video camera and monitor unit 660 sets in total and the software system as well. The total investment is over 16 million RMB.
e. We have realized computer management and achieved full-automatic operation. There are more than 960 computers in total. The total investment is 8 million RMB including the investment on software system.
II. The Treatment Characteristics of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital
After many years’ research and experiment, a three-dimensional treatment system has been established in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital with its own characteristics. That is four big technological systems including three characteristic core technology systems and one safeguard technology system, which is called core technology system of “ three characteristics and one safeguard”.
Three Characteristics Technology Supporting System
a. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
The core technology of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is to make the effective prescriptions of kidney disease superfinely shattered. Then with the help of effective penetrant and osmosis devices, the effective medicines are permeated into kidney lesions by external application, thus achieving the goal of treating kidney disease. Clinical practices have proven that this application method is both effective and convenient. At present, this therapy has become the core and most basic treating technique of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital. The therapeutic mechanism of this therapy is to block kidney fibrosis, repair damaged renal intrinsic cells and rebuilds the normal kidney structure, and the realizing of these purposes is based on Chinese medicine curative effects like dilating blood vessels, anti-inflammation, anticoagulation, preventing blood viscosity and degrading extracellular matrixes. These stages are named as block, repair and rebuild.
b. Stem Cell Transplant Treatment Technique System. 
Our hospital has introduced Stem Cell Transplant to kidney disease treatment as a brand new method, which has showed its tremendous vitality. The application of this treatment technology in our hospital has greatly improved the treatment effect of kidney disease. Stem cells have self-renewing ability which means stem cells can regenerate mass of offspring that may have exactly the same characteristics as these original stem cells. in addition, stem cells also have the potential of differentiating into functional cells of various tissues. So, Stem Cells Transplantation Therapy has a promising future in treating kidney diseases due to their powerful vitality in repairing and regenerating various kidney intrinsic cells. and this method is named as Repair and Rebuild. And this treatment technique has effectively improved the therapeutic effects of our hospital.
c. Immunoadsorption-focus Blood Purification Technical System.
It constitutes the third supportive characteristic core treatment technical system of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital. The core function is providing an easier therapeutic milieu for Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant. The therapeutic mechanism is that through hemodialysis we can clear up micro-molecular harmful substances in blood; through hemofiltration and hemoperfusion, we can get ride of moderate molecular harmful substances and micra-molecular harmful substance in blood separately; through blood immunoadsorption, we can eliminate immune complexes. By this, the blood will become relatively more clean, which provides a favorable therapeutic milieu for the application of Stem Cells Transplantation and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and makes them more effective. so, this method is named as Absorption and Purification.
We can conclude from the above three supportive characteristic core treatment techniques have been used in shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital as the special technique on treating kidney diseases, thus forming our characteristic therapy. From the forming of the three supportive characteristic core treatment technical systems we can find: the joint action of the three characteristics highlighted the five therapeutic effects of kidney treatment: blocking, adsorption, purification, recovering, rebuilding. These five functions will have an epoch-making influence in kidney disease treatment field.
The guarding effect means that these commonly used western and traditional Chinese medicine therapies are adopted during the treatments as an accompanying support to the curative effects. And this accompanying role is based on these three core medical techniques. Thus these four parts combine with one another closely and achieve an effect of mutual promotion.

2013-08-09

End Stage Renal Failure Life Expectancy


Are you in the end  stage renal disease and have been told you only have a certain amount of time left to live ?
Take matters into your own hands and learn how a simple diet and supplement can help your kidneys regain function!
The life expectancy of someone with end stage renal failure will vary greatly. Sometimes, a person with end stage renal failure may have several weeks to live. Other times, someone with end stage renal failure may suffer for years. This can also depend on the treatment options that are available to someone with renal failure, and how bad their renal failure is. At times, renal failure can result in other problems with organs, such as heart problems.
Chronic kidney disease is a progressive syndrome in which the kidneys lose their ability to filter blood, concentrate urine, excrete wastes, and maintain electrolyte balance. End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is the end result of many forms of CKD. It is characterized by severely limited kidney function that is insufficient to maintain life. Thus, patients with ESRD require renal replacement therapy via dialysis or kidney transplantation.
The term uremia refers to the constellation of ESRD sequelae that include shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, weight loss, lethargy, encephalopathy, asterixis, pruritis, pericarditis, seizures, and coma. Further, more than half of patients with ESRD are malnourished, which is associated with increased mortality.
Life expectancy for ESRD patients has improved since the advent of dialysis in the 1960s. Nonetheless, the 5-year survival is less than 50%.
Risk Factors
African Americans have a significantly higher prevalence of chronic kidney disease compared with other racial groups, due, in part, to higher rates of hypertension. Other risk factors for chronic kidney disease and ESRD include:
Older age.
Family history of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Urinary tract disorders: urolithiasis and urinary tract obstruction.
Systemic medical disorders: diabetes mellitus, hypertension, autoimmune disorders (eg, systemic lupus erythematosus), and systemic infections.
Nephrotoxic medications, for example NSAIDs and contrast dye.
Tobacco use.
Many patients ask about life span of esrd ,if you have question ,click end stage renal disease find your answers.

2013-06-28

Early Symptoms Of Kidney Cyst

Kidney cysts are almost always benign (not cancerous). Usually, the cysts don't cause any problems. In fact, people can go through life without even knowing that they have them. Some people have kidney cysts caused by an inherited disease calledpolycystic kidney disease (PKD). This disease can cause symptoms such as high blood pressure, pain in the back and side, blood in the urine or frequent kidney infections. Not all people who have PKD will have these symptoms.
Symptoms of kidney cyst :
pain on your side between your ribs and your hip,
pain in your belly or back,
a fever,
frequent urination, or
blood in your urine or dark urine.

2013-04-26

The Cause of Renal Anemia


Anemia which occurs in the advanced stage of renal failure is called renal anemia. The degree of renal anemia is usually connected with the degree of renal failure. Generally, the causes of renal anemia are as follows:
1. The generation of EPO is not enough. EPO is the main hormone which can promote the generation of red blood cells. EPO comes into being in kidney. When kidney is damaged seriously, EPO will reduce accordingly.
2. In the end stage of kidney disease, there is mortifier of erythropoiesis in the serum.
3. The damage of red blood cells increases.
4. There appeared bleeding tendency due to the dysfunctionofplatelet.
5. Hyperparathyroidism can also lead to the decrease of erythropoiesis, which can also accelerate the damage of the red blood cells.

Why We Get Hypertensive Nephropathy


Hypertensive Kidney disease is a secondary kidney disease which is caused mainly by long time high blood pressure. Generally, four factors can lead to Hypertensive Nephropathy.
1. People have disorder of nerve or internal secretion.
2. People have family history. People whose parent have Hypertensive Nephropathy are more likely to get it than those whose parents do not have it.
3. Bad living habit can also lead to Hypertensive Nephropathy such as too much intake of salt, smoking, alcohol, obesity, enormous pressure, and environment of life and environment, and so on. If the above mentioned are not paid attention, high blood pressure will develop into Hypertensive Nephropathy after 10 to 15 years.
4. Patients with high blood pressure do not attach importance on it or do not receive effective treatment, which leads to Hypertensive Nephropathy later.

2013-04-15

Does Occult Blood In Urine Indicate Kidney Disease


Why is there occult blood in urine? What condition or diesease leads to occult blood in urine? Does it indicate kidney disease? In this passage, specialists in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital will explain it for you in detail.
What is occult blood? As its name implies, occult blood means we can not see it with naked eyes or microscope. Yet if we test it with a test paper, the test paper will react. Why? When red blood cells are broken, the protoheme inside will release. So test paper will give reaction. Why does protoheme broke? That’s because leaving human body, the lifespan will be over.
Generally, the reason of occult blood can be divided into three aspects: inflammation, kidney stone, and tumor. As for inflammation, glomerular nephritis, pyelonephritis, cystitis all may lead to hematuria or occult blood. In addition, other cases such as physiology period or constipation may also lead to occult blood.
What worry patients most is the occult blood caused by tumor such as benign and malignant tumor of kidney, bladder and ureter.
So many people are still concerned about the question whether occult blood in urine indicates kidney disease. How to get a confirmed answer? Experts in kidney disease hospital suggest that people should go to hospital. More than three months’ large amount of proteinuria and hematuria will tend to be chronic kidney disease(CKD).
When occult blood comes into being, many patients do not care it so much and do not take treatment timely, which makes it deteriorate, however. Experts suggest that they should go to standardized hospital and have normalized examination.

2013-04-03

Food for Polycystic Kidney Disease


Five low and one high: low potassium, low salt, low phosphorus, low fat, low protein, high vitamin.
1. Low potassium-- high potassium content of foods should be forbidden: all kinds of edible fungi, potato, Chinese yam, cabbage, date, banana, orange, white fungus, peach, apricot, spinach, rape, etc.
2.Low salt—high salt content of foods: MSG, soda cracker, fine dried noodles, soy sauce, etc. the patient whose blood pressure is not stable or has severe edema, should avoid salt. In general, every patient takes salt less than 3g every day.
3. Low phosphorus—high phosphorus content of foods: marine food products and marine plant, such as: seaweed, laver, animals’ bowels, sesame, tea, honey, yolk, etc.
4. Low fat Note: It is forbidden to use animal oil while cooking. Take vegetable oil mainly, don’t take fatty food. It is better for the kidney patient to corn oil contained unsaturated fatty acid.
5. High-quality protein—can take right amount of egg white, milk, and fine lean meat, the amount of intake should be less than 100g. Can’t take vegetable protein, such as bean and each kind of bean products, bean curd, and bean milk. Can’t take every kind of nuts, such as peanut, melon seeds, and walnut.
6. High vitamin-- take more vegetable and every kind of fruit, like pear, apple, cucumber, tomato, etc.
Note: avoid spicy food (such as onion, ginger, garlic, etc), avoid smoke and liquor, and avoid dog meat. While being oliguria, the patient needs to control the water intake. In general, the water intake should less than the urine volume on the day before.
You told to me that you have already let your mom follow a diet without salt and much protein, that is very good for her, but now enough. Without effective control, I am afraid that your mom will also finally suffered with renal failure just like your grandma. I also attach an attachment in email about our hospital, you can have a look, this is the largestest kidney disease specialized hospital in china. We have much experience on treating PKD.

2011-10-18

What Causes the Atrophy of Kidney?

Atrophy of kidney means that your kidney is relatively smaller or obviously shrinks. The size of kidneys is up to age, sex, height and weight of the person. Long-term kidney disease will do damage to the kidney units. As the necrosis and hardening of kidney units, the kidneys will become smaller in size. As the kidneys atrophies, the renal function declines as well. When the patients' kidneys become smaller, the disease has already or inevitable developed into Renal Failure or Uremia. Therefore, in order to treat kidney disease, to improve and control atrophy of the kidneys is very important.
What Causes the Atrophy of Kidney?
What causes the atrophy of kidney?
Atrophy of kidney can happen to single or bilateral kidneys. In general, there are several factors which can cause the atrophy of kidney. When notice your kidneys is smaller, first you need to consider whether it is due to congenital renal dysplasia. Then you need to consider whether you are suffering from kidney disease or your disease has developed into end stage, such as Renal Insufficiency, Uremia, Acute Glomerular Disease, Diabetic Nephrosclerosis, rejection reaction of kidney transplant, Chronic Glomerulonephritis, renal cortical necrosis, Alport Syndrome, acute renal tubular necrosis, Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis etc.
Atrophy of bilateral kidneys is caused when various chronic kidney diseases develop into Renal Failure or Uremia stage: Serum Creatinine and BUN are elevated a lot, renal parenchyma is damaged greatly, then the kidneys will become smaller. Kidney diseases are a kind of latent disease. Usually there are no symptoms until GFR is lower than 50% (Kidneys have been damaged a lot.). Therefore, when we discover the kidneys become smaller, our kidneys have been damaged a lot and at this time we should positively find the cause so as to get effective treatment. Besides, atrophy of kidneys may cause by nephrophthisis (single kidney is shrunk and the other is with hydronephrosis or enlarged.), renal arteriostenosis or congenital renal dysplasia.
Atrophy of single kidney is common. Patients usually go to see a doctor because of high blood pressure, soreness of waist or other symptoms. It can be diagnosed by a B ultrasound, KUB or IVP. In this situation, except the primary symptoms, there are no obvious blood urine and proteinuria, and the renal function is normal. If kidney disease is caused by urinary tract infection, urinary tract obstruction or some medicine, renal function can decline sharply and after several years, the kidneys may be shrunk.
Generally speaking, the atrophy of kidneys is closely related to the long term kidney disease. Therefore, smaller size of kidneys can be an indicator of kidney disease. In order to prevent the kidneys from further atrophying, timely and effective treatment should be taken. In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, we adopt Micro-Chinese Medicine to treatment kidney disease. Micro-Chinese Medcine can block the process of renal fibrosis, repair the damaged renal instrinsic cells and renal function, rebuid the normal kidney structure. At the same time, the size of the kidneys won't become smaller any more. Then Stem Cell Transplant is carried out to generate new renal intrinsic cells so as to supplement the necrotic renal intrinsic cells and improve the renal function.