In traditional Chinese medicine, the five organs of the human body, namely the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, correspond to the five elements of yin and yang. Medical book "Yellow Emperor's Classic" that the heart is in charge of the body's blood, the color red, and therefore belongs to the fire; that "the kidney is a water organ", that is, in charge of the body's fluid metabolism of the balance of the color black, so belongs to the water , in addition to the liver is a wood, the spleen is the earth, the lungs belong to the gold. So the five organs and five elements eventually evolved into the Chinese medicine to explore the human body viscera, meridians, physiological function of the interrelationship between the important principles. which belongs to the water of the kidneys is honored by the Chinese medicine as "the origin of the first day", and the human growth, development, reproduction, health, longevity and many other issues, attributed to the kidneys of the essence of the abundance and decline.
Purifying the blood and urinating
The kidneys are an organ that removes urea and water left over from the digestion of food and maintains the electrolyte balance of the body, which is in fact completely underestimated by the kidneys:
The kidneys are not meant to be used for the production of food, but for the production of food and drink. The human blood flow in the body, carrying a lot of metabolic waste and excess electrolytes, like a polluted river, flow into the kidney this "intelligent sewage treatment plant.
But the kidneys are the opposite of a real sewage treatment plant, it fishes up useful blood cells and proteins, then recovers sugars, amino acids, essential electrolytes, and most of the water, and sends it back to the bloodstream, and what's left after the screening process is useless urine, which ends up going into the bladder through the ureter.
To accomplish such a detailed and complex job, you can imagine how much work the kidneys need, so a kidney is equivalent to a combination of 801.5 million "small kidneys.
They are the basic units that make up the kidney. Zoomed in, the "renal unit" is very much like a long-handled pipe, divided into two parts: spherical "renal body" is the bowl of the pipe, the slender "renal tubules" is the handle of the pipe, but the inside is loaded with blood and urine.
Since water accounts for 70% of the body, the kidneys are one of the busiest organs in the human body. And "hard-working", even if the kidney function is only 50% left, there is still no obvious clinical symptoms, only 10% left will appear obvious nausea, edema, high blood pressure, tiredness, weakness, cramps and other symptoms. But as the "innate essence", once the kidney is damaged, it is irreversible, almost impossible to recover, the sharp decline in renal function at the same time, the emergence of shock and uremia and other symptoms, so the chronic kidney disease continues to deteriorate to the end of the uremia, can only dialysis treatment.
Kidney disease staging, early treatment and early prevention
Sewage treatment plant with the growth of years, the equipment will gradually aging, the human body's kidneys are also the same. Usually after entering the age of confusion, although the mind is more discerning, but the function of the kidneys will decline 1% per year, if there are still some smoking and alcohol, staying up late, overeating, often take prescription or painkillers and other habits, as well as suffering from the three high (i.e., high blood pressure, high lipids, high glucose), gout, and other chronic diseases, the function of the kidneys will be declined in advance, the high-risk group of renal disease.
Kidney disease is also divided into five stages or phases, which are based on the severity of glomerular filtration rate. Usually, the kidney function test will check the concentration of creatinine in the blood, and the normal range is 0.7-1.2mg/dL. However, the creatinine response to kidney function is more lagging compared to the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and by the time the blood creatinine exceeds the standard, the renal disease has already reached a relatively serious point, which is not as accurate as the glomerular filtration rate, but the latter is complicated and expensive to measure, so it is often used to replace the creatinine silhouette rate in the clinical practice. . The normal glomerular filtration rate is 120ml/min/1.73m , and the smaller the glomerular filtration rate, the worse the renal function and the more severe the renal injury.
Kidney disease is staged as follows:
Stage 1: normal renal function, with trace proteinuria. gfr 90ml/min/1.73m .
Stage 2: mild chronic renal failure. gfr between 89 60ml/min/1.73m.
Stage 3: moderate chronic renal failure with GFR between 59 30ml/min/1.73m.
Stage 4: Severe chronic renal failure with GFR between 15 29ml/min/1.73m.
Stage 5: End-stage renal disease. gFR 15ml/min/1.73m.
Among them, stages 1 and 2 are mild chronic kidney disease, with occasional nocturia or hematuria, proteinuria or edema, and other mild symptoms, and it is usually recommended that patients continue to follow up with regular life and exercise, not staying up all night, not smoking or drinking alcohol, and must control blood glucose and blood pressure, and make dietary adjustments, with a low-salt, low-fat, low-sugar strategy, and, if necessary, the use of appropriate medications.
The third and fourth stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are characterized by proteinuria, fatigue, dizziness, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, edema, and bone pain, etc. In addition to the above lifestyle and dietary habits, a low-phosphorus diet is also recommended.
The fifth stage of renal failure is the end stage of renal failure, when the kidney function is less than 15% of a normal person , the performance of the metabolism of the body can not be eliminated by the body's wastes and water, there will be nausea, vomiting, hyperkalemia, arrhythmia, loss of appetite, edema, etc., this time, we must actively cooperate with the diet and drugs to carry out In this case, the patient must be actively treated with diet and medication, and must adopt a low-protein diet, which can only be improved by dialysis.
Water does not rot, a door-hinge does not become worm-eaten, the kidneys need to be maintained and recycled
As the saying goes, water does not rot, that is because water has the function of recycling and self-purification. As the body's important metabolic detoxification organs, although it will age with the age of aging, but such as fish and meat but less fruit and vegetables, overeating but less drinking water, smoking and drinking too much, often hold urine and other bad habits, is to lead to the early decline of the kidney function of the main culprits. In addition, obesity, non-compliance with medication and chronic diseases such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, etc., are also important sources of kidney disease that can not be ignored.
All kinds of evil causes, breaking the virtuous cycle of the kidneys lead to serious consequences. If you drink too little water, you can't let your kidneys effectively discharge the toxins in your body, and uric acid and stones accumulate and harm your kidneys; overeating leads to nutritional imbalance, resulting in protein and calorie overload, increasing the burden on the kidneys; often taking prescriptions or not following the doctor's instructions to take medications, which are three times more toxic, and ultimately poison the main filtering of the kidneys; as well as habitually holding back the urine, leading to the backflow of urine into the kidneys from the bladder, which not only excites the nerves and rises the blood pressure, but also causes urinary tract infections, and ultimately harms the kidneys. urinary tract infection, and ultimately hurt the kidneys .....
So in the decades of intense operation, the kidneys need to be maintained, the need to let the kidneys "self-purification" function to run up, the construction of a virtuous cycle will not be stagnant, to be able to health long term.
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