Dialysis can also be done at home?

Recently, a piece of news has aroused widespread public concern. Due to the inability to afford the high treatment cost, a uremic patient in Hunan underwent dialysis at home for three years. He thought that his condition could be relieved, but it backfired and his condition tended to deteriorate. With poor equipment, difficult conditions and serious illness, the experience of this uremic patient really makes people sympathize. Can uremic patients have dialysis at home? What good suggestions do nephrologists have for such patients? Clove Garden kidney moderator, senior nephrology experts put forward their own views. Uremia is not a rare disease. Uremia is not a rare disease in our country. The latest survey shows that the prevalence rate of chronic Read More …

Can eating ice cream also cause food poisoning? Watch out for these 4 microorganisms

Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Listeria monocytogenes was detected in the ice cream products of Blue Bell Company in the United States, which has caused 8 people to seek medical treatment due to infection and 3 people to die. The ice cream also entered the Chinese market last year and was sold in Shanghai, Sichuan, Heilongjiang and other places. Listeria, perhaps many people are still unfamiliar with this name. However, according to a report in the 2010 China Journal of Food Hygiene, the detection rate of Listeria in food safety monitoring in 13 provinces in China is 3.7%, with raw meat products having the highest detection rate. Food poisoning caused by microbial infection is Read More …

Smoking can really hurt the kidney, please transfer it to the smoker around you.

Does smoking really hurt the kidney? Q: Smoking also hurts the kidney? A: Yes, when people smoke, many nephrotoxic substances have been quietly inhaled into the body to kill kidney cells. After smoking, the nephrotoxic heavy metal cadmium and the increased free radicals in the kidney will cause kidney cell damage and death! Q: If it is a young man who is very healthy, will smoking not be a big problem? A: Wrong. Everyone is equal before tobacco. In fact, no matter old or young, men or women, smoking may harm kidney cells. The more you smoke, the longer you smoke, the greater the harm you may cause. How did the kidney get hurt while smoking? Q: Is there what Read More …

Wake up with urine every night? The doctor told you how to sleep till dawn.

Everyone may have had such experiences, but they were awakened when they slept well, especially in winter, which is a very painful thing. Occasionally, it’s just a few times, but many of our elders are forced to get up 2 or 3 times every night by the feeling of bladder urination. It becomes a luxury for them to sleep until dawn. Old age should not be the reason for getting up late. In medicine, only getting up twice or more at night and urinating for the purpose can it be called nocturia. Waking up at night for other reasons to urinate incidentally or wetting the bed during sleep does not belong to the scope of nocturia. Nocturia is very common. Read More …