Tag: Nephrology

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Festive Dining Out Strategy for Gout/High Uric Acid Population

After being busy for a long time, I finally look forward to a long vacation. Whether it’s family reunion or catching up with old friends, it’s inevitable to have a sumptuous meal together, which is a difficult problem for gout patients: Considering factors such as calorie restriction, balanced nutrition and elimination of drinking, the most ideal diet for gout patients is to choose their own ingredients and cook their own diet. However, it is inevitable to go out to eat or visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. Compared with their own diet at ordinary times, they have more oil and calories. Salt is abundant and tastes strong. The ingredients are miscellaneous and the purine content is uncertain. How Read More …

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Stay away from urinary tract infection, 9 things you must know

The most common symptoms of urinary tract infection are frequent urination, urgent urination and painful urination, which has always been a headache. I believe only those who have really experienced it know how painful it is. However, in the face of urinary tract infection, don’t be too afraid, let alone avoid medical treatment. You know, knowledge is power. The following will introduce you to all aspects of important information about urinary tract infection, so that you can stay away from urinary tract infection as much as possible and it will no longer be your trouble. 1. Where is the source of urinary tract infection? When bacteria enter urethral mucosa or bladder through the external orifice of urethra, urinary tract infection Read More …

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Take some of your kidneys for the sake of health.

Lao Wang next door found that there was a lot of foam in the urinal when he urinated recently. But also for a long time. I always feel bored all over, my feet are swollen, and I press a pit. After going to the hospital to draw blood and test urine for a lot of tests, the doctor said Lao Wang was [nephrotic syndrome]. I need to do a kidney biopsy and take a little kidney tissue out for tests to find out Lao Wang’s condition. Hearing this, Lao Wang got a fright. What an important thing kidney is, how can you take it casually? Moreover, blood and urine have been drawn for so many tests. How can you still Read More …

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What harm will gout bring to the kidney?

Kidney is the most frequently invaded part of gout patients except joints. In fact, if kidney pathological examination is carried out for patients with gout all the year round, almost every patient can find kidney damage, but the degree of severity is different. However, because of the strong endurance of the kidney, only about 1/3 of the patients have kidney symptoms during the course of gout. Renal lesions of gout include the following three types: Chronic gouty nephropathy The high-intensity operation of the machine will affect the service life, as will the kidney, which is the internal [machine] of the human body. Uric acid in gout patients is at a high level for a long time, the kidney is also Read More …

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Is your foot swollen? Beware of nephrotic syndrome

Huang Jie’s feet have been swollen inexplicably recently. The swollen ankles are out of sight. A pit appears when her fingers are pressed down, which cannot be recovered for a long time. At the hospital, the doctor told Huang Jie that there were many reasons for foot swelling: problems with heart, liver, kidney, endocrine system or drainage of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels could cause limb edema. According to the results of Huang Jie’s blood and urine tests, Huang Jie’s foot swelling is caused by nephrotic syndrome. [Is nephrotic syndrome what? Huang Jie asked the doctor anxiously to find out. Is what nephrotic syndrome? Under normal circumstances, the kidney is like a sieve, which can filter out useless or even Read More …

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What should anemia caused by chronic renal insufficiency do?

Early in the morning, the red-faced man in the community knocked on my door [doctor, last time you told me about my mother’s chronic renal insufficiency. Today I took her to the outpatient clinic for reexamination, and the doctor said my mother had renal anemia. How can this anemia still be related to the kidney? Do you need me to give her a blood transfusion? ] The man’s face of doubt. I asked the couple to sit down and gave them the following answers. Nephropathy can cause anemia? Chronic renal insufficiency caused by various reasons can all cause anemia, Moreover, the degree of anemia will worsen with the deterioration of renal function. There are also certain individual differences, that is, Read More …

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Low protein diet is not as simple as eating less meat. Nutritional advice for nephrotic patients

In addition to diabetes diet, low protein diet is another treatment measure as important as drugs. Once the doctor tells you that a low protein diet is needed in the future, it means that three meals a day are no longer arbitrary, but need to be well planned, otherwise it may affect the disease. However, clinicians usually do not have time to explain in great detail whether what is a low protein diet, so let Dr. Clove introduce it to you. A low protein diet means eating less meat? [Eat less food] [Meat can be eaten, but not too much] [Bean products cannot be eaten]… Doctors often tell patients this. However, the patients just feel that what should eat less Read More …

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How to nourish and protect the kidney?

The kidney is shaped like a broad bean and is located on the waist and back of the human body. It looks small but extremely important. It is like a garbage disposal station in the body. It constantly excrete water and toxins for the human body and regulates the acid-base balance in the body. Due to the strong reserve capacity of the kidney, when the kidney is slightly damaged, the patient has no obvious clinical symptoms and the disease condition is easy to be ignored. However, renal tissue cells cannot regenerate after injury. When the kidney is seriously damaged, its reserve capacity decreases and the consequences are serious. Nowadays, there are more and more patients with kidney diseases and they Read More …

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Urination has turned black, what is going on?

Some time ago, after paying a large amount of membership fees, Old Lady Zhang joined the [Self-Healing Association]. The association claims to use [beating therapy] to promote the detoxification of the human body according to Huangdi Neijing, thus achieving the magical effect of [self-healing in case of illness and strengthening the body without illness]. For the sake of health, Old Lady Zhang gritted her teeth and insisted on beating herself like beating. After stretching her tendons, she went to the toilet and even got black urine as black as soy sauce. Asked several members, they all said that there were similar situations, and other members had nausea and vomiting. Association therapists said that this is exactly [the body is detoxifying] Read More …

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Can hormones be used when gout attacks?

When gout is acute, when [enemy ship]-uric acid molecules capture some of our joints [islands], we sometimes encounter such situations: neither NSAIDs nor colchicines can relieve pain, or patients cannot tolerate the side effects of NSAIDs and colchicines, resulting in serious gastrointestinal reactions. At this point, what should I do? We have to send our fleet’s ultimate weapon-the aircraft carrier. The Ultimate Weapon of Gout Analgesia Like aircraft carriers in modern naval warfare, the party that owns the aircraft carrier will not send its own aircraft carrier fleet immediately at the beginning of the war, but will only serve as a deterrent. Hormones are not the first choice for gout pain relief in the treatment of acute gout. Hormones are Read More …