To prevent senilism, modern people need to do more exercises and nourish our
body in time to improve renal insufficient and senile symptoms. Excluding those
feeble patients, people should tonify kidney with a mild measure according to
seasons, body condition and climate. And it is better to follow doctor’s
instruction.
According to western medicine, kidney is an important organ to secrete urine,
discharge waste and toxin. It can regulate electrolytic concentration in human
body, and sustain acid-base equilibrium. With the aggravation of renal injure,
Renal Secretion and regulation function will decline. When kidneys are damaged
seriously, Uremia occurs, which threaten patient’s life.
With age growing, kidney function declines gradually. While in daily life,
some bad habits or behaviors also can injure renal function.
For protect people kidney, people should be cautious about following
points:
1. Abusing Chinese herbal medicine.
In recent years, it is found in Clinical practices that some Chinese herbal
medicine, including Chinese patent medicine, can cause renal damage. Such
medicines include caulis aristolochiae manshuriensis, thunder god vine, semen
pharbitidis, cocklebur, poppy capsule, birthwort root, aristolochia fangchi etc.
Among them, thunder god vine damage kidney most seriously, and caulis
aristolochiae manshuriensis follows. The reason why caulis aristolochiae
manshuriensis damage kidney is a kind of nephrotoxic material, aristolochic
acid.
2. Abusing analgesic
Long term application or large dosage of anti-inflammation and analgesic
medicine, like painkiller, indomethacin, paracetamol and aspirin etc, easily
damage kidney. Renal damage manifested by fatigue, inappetence, frequent
micturition, urgent urination, odyuria and even blood urine and sterile pyuria,
accompanying with symptoms like arthralgia etc. Some times, it can directly
cause Acute Nephritis or Glomerulus Necrosis and other kidney syndromes, Even
Renal Failure, which threaten patient’s life .
3. Holding back urine frequently.
People usually hold back urine when they are busy for work. Bacteria are
prone to propagate if urine stays in bladder for long. Bacteria can back to
bladder through ureters, which causes urinary tract infection and
Pyelonephritis. Once the repetition occurs, Chronic infection will happen and
can not be cured easily. Patients have pain on back, frequent urination and
urgent urination etc, or even Acute Uremia.
4. Drinking less water
Urine volume will decrease if people drink less water, and concentration of
waste and toxin carried in blood will increase. Kidney Stone and Hydronephrosis
and other common clinical symptoms have close relations with drinking less
water. Drinking more water can dilute urine, protect kidney and is helpful to
discharge waste and toxins.
5. Engorgement
Nowadays, people have more chance to dine together and take excessive
delicious food which will be finally metabolized into wastes, like uric-acid and
urea nitrogen etc. And these wastes are excreted out of body by kidney, so
excessive diet will burden kidney.
6. Drinking beverage excessively
Excessive intake of soft drink and sport beverage can damage kidney
indirectly. Because Ph value in human body is 7.2, however, these drinks are
usually acid and Ph value in human body changes dramatically after drinking
beverages. Kidney is the main organ to regulate acid-base equilibrium in human
body. Excessive drinking soft and sport beverages for long can add kidney’s
burden and increase the probability of kidney damage.
7. Eating floppy bread
There is an additive of potassium bromate in bread and cookie, and this
additive can provide toasted food with necessary gluten intensity and
flexibility which smell a mellow flavor. However, excessive intake of this
additive can damage central nervous system, blood and kidney. Potassium bromate,
as a food additive, has been listed as a carcinogen by international cancer
research institute.
8. Too salty diet
Some snacks contain high salt, for example, fried chips, instant noodles,
people will intake excess salt unconsciously by eating them, which can cause
blood pressure increase, blood flow volume in kidney can not be sustained then
kidney disease occurs.
9. Drink strong tea after liquoring
Some people think drinking strong tea after liquoring can relieve alcohol,
actually, this is not effective and can damage kidney. Theophylline in tea can
affect kidney rapidly, and exploit its diuresis function. At that moment,
Alcohol has not been decomposed yet when they are secreted from kidney, which
makes kidney stimulated by massive ethanol and renal function gets damaged.
