What are the symptoms of CKD?

Anemia

Red blood cells carry oxygen to all of the cells in your body. Anemia is a shortage of red blood cells that can start early in CKD. What do kidneys have to do with blood cells? Healthy kidneys make a hormone called erythropoietin (EPO) that tells your bone marrow to make red blood cells. As kidneys fail, they make less of the hormone.

With fewer red blood cells, you get tired much faster, even when you are doing routine tasks like climbing a flight of stairs or walking to the mailbox. Feeling very, very tired can be a symptom of anemia.

Edema (Swelling)

Failing kidneys remove less water. The extra water can build up in the legs, ankles feet, face, and/or hands (edema). Some people have trouble catching their breath due to extra fluid in the lungs. (This may be mistaken for asthma). If you have high blood pressure, you may find that it is harder to control, even when you take your pills.

Changes in Urination

Kidneys make urine, and when the kidneys are failing the urine may change. Some changes in that may notice include:

.Urinating more often

.Not urinating as much

.Making more — or much less — urine than usual

.Getting up at night to urinate

.Foamy or bubbly urine

.Blood in the urine or very dark urine that looks like tea or cola

.Pressure when urinating or trouble getting a flow started

Back or Flank (Side) Pain   http://www.sos-kidney.com/Symptom/FAQ/110.html#.U9de6LLs56g

Some people with kidney problems have pain in the back or flank on the side of the affected kidney. Polycystic kidney disease can also cause this type of pain.

Poor Growth (Children Only)

One of the early signs of CKD in children is poor growth

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How to prevent acute kidney failure?

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· Follow instructions on over-the-counter (OTC) medications
Follow the instructions on OTC pain medications such as aspirin, acetaminophen (Tylenol, others) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others). Taking doses that are too high may increase your risk of acute kidney failure. This is especially true if you have pre-existing kidney disease, diabetes or high blood pressure.
· Work with your doctor to manage kidney problems
If you have kidney disease or other diseases or conditions that increase your risk of acute kidney failure, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, follow your doctor's recommendations for managing your condition.
· Make a healthy lifestyle a priority
. Be active; eat a sensible, balanced diet; and drink alcohol only in moderation — if at all.
. Get a physical every year that includes a urine test to monitor your kidney's health.
. Drink water and other fluids to stay hydrated.
. Don't take drugs or other substances that can damage your kidneys. Check with your doctor to find out about the potential side effects of any medications you are taking.http://www.sos-kidney.com/Symptom/FAQ/114.html#.U9ddQrLs56g
. People at risk for chronic kidney disease (eg, those with a pre-existing kidney disease or kidney stone) should get more frequent check-ups at their doctor's office.
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Do you really know chronic kidney failure?

It usually takes long time of the diseases’ worsening and most of the chronic diseases are caused by the acute ones, so as the chronic kidney failure. It is very likely to occur that the chronic kidney failure is diagnosed as other diseases, like tumor and digestive tract diseases. The treatment based on the misdiagnosis not only delays the opportunity to cure the disease but also harms the patients’ health.

The chronic kidney failure is mainly from the secondary diseases. The major symptoms of the common kidney disease is the deduction of the kidney function, which will lead to the retentions of metabolism and the imbalance of the electrolyte, then the internal regulation can not be maintained. There are various causes of the kidney failure and the most common one in the primary diseases is chronic glomerulus nephritis, which makes up 50%-70% percentage.http://www.sos-kidney.com/News/194.html#.U9dbG7Ls56g

The experts point out that the chronic kidney failure is one of the severe diseases that threat the safety of life. The character of such a disease is that it has no obvious symptoms in the early stage, and can be easily misdiagnosed due to the extremely similarity to other diseases, especially for those people who never experiences the chronic kidney disease.

Do you really know about hemodialysis?

Blood purification is regarded as dialysis in the daily life. The meaning is that purifying the blood by draining them to the purification equipment, then removing the pathogenic substances to cure the disease.
The main therapies of the blood purification are including: hemodialysis, blood perfusion, plasma exchange, hemofiltration and immunoabsorption.
Hemodialysis realizes the goals of the electrolyte balance and waste excretion by utilizing the diffusion and counter current flow methods.
Blood perfusion purifies the blood by absorbing the waste from the metabolism when the blood flows through the absorbent external the body.
Plasma exchange separates the blood into plasma and other ingredients in the machine then fill the new plasma into the ingredients, since the wastes exist in the plasma.http://www.sos-kidney.com/News/155.html#.U9N_EqMzPqA
Hemofiltration is a method which purifies the blood when it flows through the filter. With the help of machine or the blood pressure, the fluid together with the solute can be filtered out and then the similar electrolyte or substitute will be supplied. The process imitates the filtration of the glomerulus, but the reabsorption of the kidney tubules can not be imitated. The supply of substitute can accomplish part function of the kidney tubules. According to the experience, hemofiltration is better than the hemodialysis in the treatment of refractory hypertension, incomplete cardiac function, and fluid elimination and so on. It is a very effective method which has been widely accepted to treat the kidney failure.http://www.sos-kidney.com/Contact_Us/5.html?1381738261
Immunoabsorption is a method which utilizes the absorbent, combined with highly peculiar antigen or antibody or materials with specific physical or chemical affinity, to directly remove the disease causing factors from the blood. The advantage of such method is that the higher selectivity of the disease causing factors enables the useful ingredients to be cleaned in a smaller range and the side effects from the substitute to be avoided.

Why kidney disease can not be cured completely?

At the moment, the disease caused by the bacteria can be cured completely by using antibiotic medicines. Some of the disease caused by the virus infection also can be cured completely, because the medicines and treatment therapies have been found.

The treatments of those diseases, caused by the infection from the environment contamination or from the waste deposit of the body metabolism, are still in the progress researching.

Whether the medical institutions should continue the treatment under the situation of guideless? The requirement to the medical staffs is that they need to spare no effort to research the treatment methods. No matter it is wording or not, the staffs should try their best, which is the nature of medical science, because lots of the medical inventions are found during the process of research. It is also the same for the treatment of kidney disease. Even if there is no exact treatment, all the staffs should give their best and focus on the symptoms elimination.

The specialty of our treatment is cleaning the blood by the traditional Chinese therapies. We cure the disease by blood cleaning, which is also called blood purification therapy. The reason why we are different is not only because we adopt traditional Chinese medicine, but also we use them to purify the blood to reach the purpose of kidney treatment. The most popular treatment at present is aiming at the kidney itself, and all the medicine will come directly to the area where the disease exists. Since such kind of method has been widely used in the world, all the hospitals follow the trend, so it is also called regular treatment. http://www.sos-kidney.com/News/150.html#.U9B4FLLs56g

Why people suffer from kidney disease?

Kidney disease refers to a series of inflammation symptoms caused by the poisonous or harmful materials’ invasion to the kidneys.Such kind of materials refer to the foreign matters which can easily attack the human body. The first one is the fungus, such as Escherichia coli and other micro-organisms. The second one is the virus, such as common cold virus. Without parasite the virus can not breed the next generation due to the semicell structure and very likely to cause the inflammation of the kidneys. The third one is the remained products from the metabolism, which will be detained in the kidneys. The last one refers to the others, such as the materials form the environment contamination.

It has been widely questioned by the patients that why kidney disease happens to them not others who are living in the same environment. We can find the solutions from the analyzing of the causes. When the immunity weakens because of either the abnormal external or internal factors, the related poisonous elements will invade the human body and then they must find the right place to land, such as organs or tissues. If they choose kidney as their target, the disease forms.

Due to the different causes, there are various symptoms. The causes, like bacteria infection, virus infection, immune compound deposition, metabolin debris and so on. The different causes deposit different toxins in the kidney. To remove the toxins, the human body will produce kinds of inflammatory medium, which will stimulate lots of proteins to transfer into inflammatory factors, and then they work in the place where the toxins are. This procedure is how the kidney disease forms.

How does TCM Treat Renal Failure?

For the renal failure patients,they are very painful. On the one hand,they have to fight with the disease and suffer the distress. On the other hand ,they have to try their best to find out better treatment,though most of time they do not get effective results and feel disappointed gradually. But you may not know that TCM and treat renal failure better. Let’s see the following.

Internal Use of TCM
Generally such medicines which are good for warming the kidneys and expelling the toxins as astragali radix,monkshood,cordyceps sinensis,Herba Epimedii,morinda officinalis,Rhizome Pinelliae Preparata,salvia miltiorrhiza,plantago seed,caulis perllae,rhizoma coptidis,rheum officinale,Semen Persicae,angelica sinensis, and safflower carthamus will be adopted. They strengthen healthy and improve immunity,activate blood circulation to remove the stasis,dispel pathogenic Qi without damaging vital Qi. They can also improve the blood flow volume in kidneys,reduce the BUN and serum creatinine, and put right acidosis.

Point Application
Process raw rhubarb,salvia miltiorrhiza,motherwort,semen coicis,ligusticum wallichii and euphorbia kansui into rough powder,soaked with sesame oil and put into the earthen pot,concoct them to be cream. Stick the cream outside the Shenshu Point and Guanyuan Point and make the medicines penetrate the skin and stimulate the acupoints. The potency of the drugs will play their function to the Shenshu point directly through meridians and warm the kidney,activate the meridians,improve the urine and pure the turbid. This method is widely used in clinical as it does not go through digestive tract and no gastrointestinal adverse reactions.http://www.sos-kidney.com/News/1085.html#.U8uCBEA3avk

Chinese Medicine Enema
This method possesses certain function of colonic dialysis,is one of the important method to eliminate the nitrogen pledges in the body. It is a complement for oral medicines,especially for the patients who cannot take medicines orally. Normally rheum officinale,monkshood,raw oysters,rhizoma smilacis glabrae and dandelion will be used to remove the viscera and dispel the turbid. This prescription can improve the excretion of toxins through intestinal tract,inhibit proteolysis,increase the gastrointestinal motility,prevent the intestinal tract from adsorbing the toxins and promote the excretion of the toxins.

How does TCM Think about Diabetes?

How does TCM Think about Diabetes?

 

The studies have shown that there is a common ground among all kinds of diabetes,that is,the βcells of pancreas are damaged. The damaged βcells will lead to the quantity shortage of insulin or low quality of insulin which is excreted by pancreas and can bring down the blood sugar level. Thus the increase of blood sugar will be caused and further trigger diabetes. Form the point of TCM,the reasons for diabetes are innate deficiency,excessive eating and obesity,exhaustion and the seven human emotions(i.e. joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate and desire). These factors lead to deficiency,heat and stasis of the body. Diabetes is a reflection of deficiency of kidney-YIN,and represents dryness-heat of stomach and liver. It can further lead to blood stasis and stagnation.

 

 

How does TCM Treat Diabetes?

 

According to the basic pathological changes,that is,Deficiency of Yin and dryness-heat,of diabetes,TCM regards removing heat to promote salivation,nourishing Yin and supplementing the vital energy as its fundamental law, and clearing heat-fire,moistening the dryness-heat,producing salivation,invigorating spleen and replenishing qi,nourishing Yin and supplementing kidneys,activating blood and removing stasis as its commonly used method,together with complications and clinical manifestation, methods of warming kidney to invigorate Yang,clearing away heat and toxic material,moistening lung to arrest cough and clearing liver and improving vision will also be adopted flexibly in the process of treating diabetes.

 

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TCM Therapy for Diabetes

 

The treatment of diabetes mainly focuses on the repairing of damaged pancreas. According to the different conditions of patients,analyze and differentiate based on the theory of multiple -target-point of TCM Osmotherapy. On the basis of acupoints and meridians in TCM,under the action of electromagnetic field,the active ingredients can ne sent to the pancreas directly through relative acupoint penetration, and then activate and repair the insulin resistance(mutant) genes,reduce its susceptibility,increase the sensibility to insulin,thus recover the pancreas function.

Treatment Plans for Renal Failure

Renal failure is not a illness,but a stage of the kidney disease,specifically refers to the end stage of chronic renal failure.

The Harm of Renal Failure
Usually renal failure refers to the 90% of the nephrons have stopped working and because of which all kinds os symptoms are led to. The common seen symptoms include metabolic disorders like water,acid,protein,sugar,fat and vitamin and so on. Besides as almost all the filtration function of kidneys have been lost,large amount of metabolic substances cannot be removed out,damage lesions of all organs will be caused. We can say it is total collapse of various parts and finally many complications will be caused.

General Treatment Plans for Renal Failure
So far almost all the treatment plans in hospitals are regular dialysis and kidney transplant.
But you should note that dialysis is not the treatment,instead it is a way to save your life temporarily. Dialysis cannot improve the dead conditions of the nephron at all,on the contrary,it may accelerate the shrinkage of kidneys since dialysis makes kidneys out of utilization. Or you can say it is just a temporary method.
As for the kidney transplant,its successful rate is low and it costs much. Even though you have succeed the operation ,the surviving life will be only about 10 years and you have to take the anti-rejection drugs for life.
The above the reasons account for why renal failure is know as fatal disease.
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Misconceptions of Kidney Disease

There are many people,even the kidney patients,have some misunderstandings of kidney diseases,which can easily lead to the very serious conditions such as the delay of the disease. Let’s scroll down to see what misconceptions of kidney diseases are there.
Misconception One:Kidney Deficiency=Kidney Disease
This is the commonest one. Kidney deficiency is the way of saying kidney problems in Traditional Chinese Medicines. The so called kidney,not only includes kidney organ,but also includes digestive system,urinary system,reproductive system,nervous system,respiratory system and so on. It is a comprehensive concept. The kidney deficiency more refers to the weak body and illnesses caused by deficiency of vital energy,it does not mean there are problems in kidneys.
Likewise kidney problems do not represent as kidney deficiency. Some kidney diseases such as primary chronic nephritis,there is almost no any symptoms. Besides some common seen symptoms of kidney diseases are different from that in kidney deficiency,swelling,hypertension,proteinuria and occult blood,to list some of them.

Misconception Two：Routine Blood and Urine Test
Some people think that only if the blood and urine test are normal,they have no kidney diseases at all,which is also one of the misunderstandings. For example,when suffered with chronic nephritis,the abnormal urine test or swelling are usually intermittent and do not represent obviously. You may find the value is positive this time,and become negative next time. Still there are some people getting a negative result,and no more tests until there appears some symptoms,the conditions have progressed into chronic renal failure.
You should know that there will not have swelling or hypertension without any reasons,even if it is minimal symptoms,there are reasons lying behind it. While ignorant attitude is the biggest mistake.

Misconception Three:Kidney Disease is is only Concerned with Kidney
As the most important metabolic organ,once there is problem in kidneys,other internal organ will be affected. The most typical effect is to the heart,many kidney patients may experience heart failure. Besides the contraction and relaxation of micro blood vessels in kidneys regulate the vascular resistance directly and further influence the blood pressure. This is why kidney patients are often accompanied by hypertension.
Therefore for the kidney patients,they should pay attention to other complications as well.

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Modern Chinese Medicines May Make You Away from Dialysis

In order to avoid the side effects of long-term dialysis,modern medical research has shifted its emphasis to the traditional therapy---Chinese Medicine Therapy.

What are the positive advantages of modern Chinese Therapy in treating end stage kidney disease(ESKD)?

To protect the residual kidney function

Though ESKD patients have progressed into the final stage of renal failure,there still exists 5% to 15 % of kidney function,and this figure is quite important,which can help get rid of some water,toxins and further reduce the risk of emergency and complications.

Some scientific experiments and clinical researches have proved that the Chinese medicines have the function of protecting the residual kidney functions. To treat ESKD with Chinese medicines properly can alleviate the lose of the residual kidney function and bring benefits to patients’ health.

To promote the excretion of toxins

There are various toxins in the body of patients,and dialysis treatment can only replace the normal kidney function partly ,therefore,as long as the toxins in the body can be filtered out,benefits can be brought to the patients. There are many approaches that toxins can be removed from the body by means of Chinese medicines.

So far the researchers find that sweating,vomiting and bowel movement can filter out much toxins in the body naturally. Therefore by Chinese medicines treatment,make the patients sweat properly,increase the amount of bowel and even promote emesis when it is necessary. Those measures can accelerate the excretion of the toxins in the body,improve the systemic conditions ans improve the comprehensive curative effects.

The modern Chinese medicines treatment

The modern Chinese medicines treatment focus on the combination of “Micro Chinese Medicines Osmotherapy” and blood purification. By means of blood purification,the harmful and toxic substances in the blood can be removed to the utmost extent.;Making use of osmotherapy technique,the smashed and processed Chinese medicines are conveyed to the kidneys and repair the kidney effectively and slow down the process of renal failure. Next through medicated bath, increase the amount of sweat and improve the excretion of toxins in the body comprehensively. In the late period,we use Chinese medicines to enhance the immunity of the patients and provide a favorable environment for improvement and reduce the rate of worsening.

Protect renal eight jin healing therapy, help patients with kidney disease a quick recovery.

Eight Jin Healing Therapy

Eight recruit fitness stance of classic, immediate health movement ten minutes!From the northern song dynasty began circulating eight brocade exercise, after nearly one thousand years is still enduring.Eight recruit action can chang qi and blood, stretches the physique, dredge meridian, curing illnesses.Easy to learn, unlimited space, create gold immunity for himself at any time!Eight brocade is the achievement method of preserve one's health of the plait in northern song dynasty, after eight hundred years of time change, spread so far, still shows its effect is remarkable.
Eight period of jin, consisting of four different action has the functions such as health care, treatment, rehabilitation, each period of action has a clear purpose of fitness, taken together, the facial features, head and neck, trunk and limbs, waist and abdomen body parts, and the corresponding internal organs, and have health, regulate qi and blood, meridians, can make people keep youth forever, prolong life.
Modern people generally lack of exercise, often appear dizziness, weakness in neck, waist sour leg pain, is not flexible and other symptoms.Through doing eight brocade, can make the spine and the entire limb joints are movement, the muscle relaxes.
Although eight jin is one of China's health movement, but from the perspective of modern medicine, also has the corresponding argument can be explained.The author wang cass David tang has the license of Chinese and western medicine doctors, he put the eight period of jin of all kinds of action and the overall effect respectively by traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine point of view, will explore, extension and essence of east and west medicine do get eight period of jin has a new interpretation, also conforms to the requirements of modern people.
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FALEI ZHENG

Falei Zheng, who is born in 1947, gets his doctor’s degree of kidney disease in 1988. He has published more than 260 papers since 1980 and edits two monographs about kidney disease. He specializes in the early prevention of the metabolism of chronic kidney failure, the research of medical renal toxicity, tubulointerstitial disease and the metabolism of electrolyte. He is the first one who finds the kidney tubules acidism type IV and acute nephritis together with hemorrhagic interstitial pneumonia in China. He is also the first one who treats the chronic kidney failure by adopting the essential amino-acid and ketonic acid in China. Through such kind of treatment, he has a clear idea how the improvement of protein and amino-acid metabolic disorders postpones the kidney failure.

Why Hormones cannot Cure Nephritis Syndrome?

Hormones

The common treatment for nephritis syndrome is hormones ,but there are side effects of hormones and the disease relapse again and again. Why hormones cannot cure nephritis syndrome ?

Long term and beyond physical dosage of glucocorticoid can lead to the metabolic disorders of water,salt,sugar,protein and fat,causing adrenocortical hyperfunction. The symptoms are central obesity causing obstruction of calcium adsorption and rarefaction of bone,seriously spontaneous fracture can be caused.

Glucocorticoid can reduce the defence capability to disease,and the weak defensive capability is good for the growth and spread of bacteria,inducing or aggravating infections.

Glucocorticoid can promote the protein decomposition,put off the formation of granuloma,prevent trauma,operational cuts and ulcer healing.

Glucocorticoid has the function of anti growth hormones. If it is used in children for long,bone growth will be inhibited in children and protein synthesis. It affects the growing development and causes fetal malformation in pregnant women.

After long use of glucocorticoid treatment,if the dosage are reduced too fast or drug withdrawal suddenly when the symptoms are controlled,the original symptoms will come up again quickly or aggravate,which is known as rebound phenomenon. And some new symptoms such as myalgia,muscle rigidity,joint pain and so on may occur ,which is known as abstinence sydrome.

Vitamin B derivative helps diabetics with mild kidney disease

Vitamin B

Pyridorin may prevent kidney failure, but not in patients with advanced kidney disease

•Pyridorin, a vitamin B6 derivative, may help slow or prevent the progression of mild kidney disease in some patients with diabetes.

•The drug does not appear to help diabetics with more advanced kidney disease.

•The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is expected to double by 2030. Kidney disease cases are sure to rise in parallel.

Washington, DC (Thursday, October 27, 2011) — A vitamin B6 derivative may help slow or prevent the progression of mild kidney disease in patients with diabetes, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The drug may benefit increasing numbers of patients as the prevalence of diabetes rises.

Approximately 40% of all patients who need dialysis or a kidney transplant can blame diabetes for their kidney problems. Because the number of patients with type 2 diabetes is expected to double by 2030, the prevalence of kidney failure is sure to increase. New therapies that can delay the progression of diabetic kidney disease may help prevent kidney failure and save lives. Researchers have wondered whether the drug Pyridorin, a derivative of vitamin B6, may be such a candidate. Pyridorin targets several cellular processes that may be relevant to the progression of diabetic kidney disease.

Edmund Lewis, MD (Rush University Medical Center) and his colleagues within the Collaborative Study Group (a large clinical trial group comprised of various kidney care centers) tested the potential of Pyridorin (generic name pyridoxamine dihydrochloride) for treating patients with diabetic kidney disease.

For one year during the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 317 patients received placebo twice a day, Pyridorin at a dose of 150 mg twice a day, or Pyridorin at a dose of 300 mg twice a day.

Overall, the drug did not provide any benefit over placebo for slowing or preventing the progression of diabetic kidney disease; however, Pyridorin did help patients with only mild forms of the disease.