The relationship between chronic nephritis and renal failure is like this. At first, it is chronic nephritis, then the renal function damage is aggravated, which becomes the compensatory period of renal insufficiency (that is, the remaining kidneys can still complete most of the work), then the decompensated period of renal insufficiency (that is, they can't finish the work at the beginning), and finally renal failure, which is what we call uremia. According to western medicine, it is only a matter of time before chronic nephritis will eventually develop and enter the stage of renal failure.
However, Chinese medicine does not think so. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chronic nephritis can be treated, which can prevent the development and recovery of kidney diseases. Under the treatment of some doctors, renal insufficiency can also be maintained or even reversed. But to be honest, what I have seen and heard is that in the stage of renal insufficiency, most of them are just maintenance, and the final result is often not good.
Therefore, it is very important to grasp the stages of chronic nephritis and step up treatment, otherwise it will be too late to regret.
However, people often ignore the treatment of this disease, and some even feel a little hematuria, but their lives and work are not hindered, so they ignore the treatment and continue to work hard and continue to sing every night. As a result, one day, after examination, they have entered the stage of renal failure, which is very regrettable.
So, what do we need to know about the prevention and treatment of kidney disease?
You know, chronic nephritis is not exactly the same as kidney deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine.
Chronic nephritis is a pathological change of renal parenchyma in anatomy. This kidney, which we usually call kidney, is an organ that filters metabolic waste in blood and finally excretes it from urine. If some parts of our body are infected, such as throat infection, inflammation, etc., the complex of various bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms will enter the blood and eventually reach the kidney with the circulation of blood, because the whole body's blood will flow through the kidney and filter out the waste in the blood. At this time, these foreign bodies are deposited on the glomerular basement membrane, and the kidney will have an immune reaction, which is nephritis.
Last time I wrote an article that oral diseases can lead to nephritis, some netizens left a message asking, does it mean that infections in all parts of the body can lead to nephritis? In principle, even some long-term infected sores are the source of the disease, but not all infections will cause nephritis, and there is a certain proportion, among which the infection in the throat is the most prone to problems. Periodontal infection of teeth is only more persistent, so the proportion is also very large.
Let's start with kidney deficiency. Kidney deficiency mentioned by Chinese medicine is the kidney of Chinese medicine. This kidney is a system, including dissecting the essence of the kidney and other functions such as reproduction and sperm storage. This kidney deficiency refers to the weakness of the kidney system of traditional Chinese medicine. Kidney deficiency should be a foundation of chronic nephritis, but the two cannot be equated directly.
Therefore, when nephritis was mentioned before, I felt that patients with backache should tonify the kidney, but the clinical effect was not ideal. Chronic nephritis is a difficult disease for a long time. However, the late Zhao Shaoqin, a master of Chinese medicine at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, thought:
Chronic nephritis is mostly caused by damp-heat and kidney stasis. At this time, it is necessary to dispel pathogenic factors, cool blood and promote blood circulation. This is the treatment, and simply tonifying the kidney will often get worse and worse. This is Zhao Lao's theory that chronic kidney disease is not virtual.
Therefore, according to Zhao Lao's point of view, kidney disease cannot abuse tonics.
My opinion is that if the patient is really weak in spleen and kidney, it can be adjusted appropriately, but if it is wet and bloody, it must be adjusted on the basis of cooling blood and promoting blood circulation. However, cooling blood and activating blood, dispelling wind and eliminating evil are the first.
How did chronic nephritis come from?
Western medicine believes that chronic nephritis is caused by the infection of the body, the products and compounds of viruses and bacteria entering the blood circulation, and the immune response of the kidney. This research is still going on, and now it is even thought that this invasion has affected the hematopoietic system in bone marrow. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body feels exogenous evil, which enters the body and hides in the kidney, resulting in damp-heat stagnation in the kidney meridian, so it is a disease.
It is very appropriate to explain this disease with the theory of febrile diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the theory of defending qi and nourishing blood. Professor Zhao Shaoqin believes that it is very appropriate that this disease is caused by exogenous pathogens entering the blood and finally even entering the bone marrow (which was added by Zhao Laojia).
Therefore, both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine believe that nephropathy is mainly caused by the invasion of external evils. The most common is a throat infection caused by a cold.
Many people think that a cold is a minor illness, but it is actually very harmful. Many people recover after a few days of catching a cold, but some people get a throat infection because of a cold and eventually suffer from kidney disease. In other words, most patients with chronic nephritis may have nephritis after catching a cold. Patients with nephritis are more likely to catch a cold in the future, which will make the kidney damage more serious.
Therefore, some doctors even suggest that patients have a routine urine examination after each cold to determine whether there is kidney damage.
In addition to the cause of cold, I have seen many chronic kidney diseases caused by decoration pollution. I asked patients with chronic nephritis, and many of them were renovated within half a year. When my mother got chronic nephritis, it also happened in the process of decoration. I think this should at least be a related factor, and its mechanism is still insufficient at present, and even the relevant medical reports are few. I just put forward the phenomenon I observed here, which can't be regarded as the result of systematic research.
In addition, the factors of family inheritance can not be ignored. The disease of chronic nephritis has family aggregation, which is recognized by the global medical community. Western medicine research shows that it is related to a certain genetic defect. I think this factor should also be concerned. For example, in my own family, many relatives of my mother's family suffer from kidney disease. Therefore, if there are people with chronic kidney disease at home, then it is necessary to do a good job in kidney protection.
In addition to the previous factors, there is also kidney damage caused by improper medication. For example, many antibiotics and some traditional Chinese medicines, such as Akebia manshuriensis, are nephrotoxic and can cause kidney damage. Even these drugs can directly lead to renal failure, so we must be vigilant.
In addition, lack of healthy qi and bad mood are also pathogenic factors. If the healthy qi is sufficient, foreign evils will not easily invade and there will be no more serious problems. Therefore, the lack of healthy qi is the root of all diseases. Being in a bad mood leads to qi and blood disorder, which is also the basis of disease.
What symptoms does chronic nephritis have?
In fact, many patients have no obvious symptoms, but urine tests found problems during physical examination. The following summarizes some symptoms that are easily overlooked for everyone to master.
Floating expansion
One of the symptoms of chronic nephritis is edema, and the parts of edema are usually eyelids, calves and ankles. There used to be an old saying that "men are afraid to wear boots and women are afraid to wear hats", which means that edema in men's legs will be more serious and edema in women's faces will be more serious. This can be used as a reference. Ascites is serious in nephropathy. If you find yourself often edema, you need to go to the hospital for a urine test to rule out nephritis.
Lack of strength
The second symptom of chronic nephritis is fatigue. In fact, fatigue is the most important symptom of chronic kidney disease, but because there are too many sub-healthy people now, most people often feel tired, so the signal of this kind of kidney disease is often ignored. It's a pity, but there are indeed many patients with renal failure who have recently reported feeling weak and unable to walk, only to be found in the hospital for examination, so I remind everyone to pay attention to this matter.
have a sore waist
The third symptom of chronic nephritis is backache. Because damp heat accumulates in the kidney meridian, leading to stagnation of meridians, backache will occur, and drugs will be used to dredge meridians to relieve it immediately. At the same time, kidney deficiency mentioned by Chinese medicine can also lead to backache, and the front damp heat makes the problem more complicated. If you often feel backache, you should first rule out the possibility of chronic nephritis, and then consider the factors of kidney deficiency.
There is foam in the urine
The fourth symptom of chronic nephritis is foam urine. This is because there is lost protein in urine, and because the glomerular basement membrane is damaged, protein will be lost in the process of filtering blood. At this time, if you do routine urine examination, you will find that there is protein residue in the urine.
haematuria
The fifth symptom of chronic nephritis is hematuria. Hematuria can be divided into gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria. The naked eye can see hematuria, and the urine color is watery, turbid and red. Microscopic hematuria can only be found when routine urine examination is done and observed under the microscope. If there is erythrocytosis in urine routine, the morphology of red blood cells should be checked. If the deformation rate is relatively high, it means chronic glomerulonephritis.
hypertension
The sixth symptom of chronic nephritis is hypertension. Because when the blood is filtered by the kidney, if the kidney is blocked, it will be difficult for the blood to pass, and it will send a signal to the body to require the pressure to pass, which will lead to hypertension, which is called renal hypertension. Conversely, hypertension can lead to more serious kidney damage. Therefore, many hypertensive patients do not know that they have kidney disease, so be vigilant.
Ok, dear friends, because I have seen many patients with kidney disease recently, I will introduce kidney disease to you continuously, hoping to make everyone take precautions and protect themselves and their families!