Why Do Patients with Renal Failure Have Low Fever
Why do patients with kidney failure have a low fever? For some patients with kidney failure, they may have the symptom of low grade fever, which will make them more weak. In fact, kidney failure will not cause low grade fever directly. But for patients with kidney failure, it is easy to cause infections, which will facilitate the fever.
Renal failure is mainly caused by an acute kidney problem or chronic kidney disease, which refer to gradually reduced renal function. There are some common causes that will cause patients with kidney failure to have infections that cause low grade fever.
1. low immunity
As we know, kidney disease can be caused by an immune disorder and low immunity, which will cause the bacteria and surrounding viruses to attack the body and cause infections. For kidney failure, your immune system is poor, which will make them at high risk of infections, so they may have a low fever.
2. Long-term use of immunosuppressive agents
As we know, more and more kidney diseases are caused by inflammations in the kidneys, when people have an immune disorder or a weak immune system, the bacteria invades the body and the antibody will fight against them. The antibody will combine with the bad substances, which will produce immune complexes. When the immune complexes are deposited in the kidneys, it will cause inflammations in the kidneys. Then people will get kidney disease, and it is always recommended to take immunosuppressive agents to control inflammations in the kidneys. But long-term use of immunosuppressive agents will damage the immune system, which will also cause infections.
3. A large amount of proteinuria
For patients with renal insufficiency, they often have the symptom of proteinuria, and the large amount of proteinuria will cause low immunity. Because there are several types of proteins in our body, and immunoglobulin has the function of fighting against harmful substances to invade our body. However, the loss of proteins will cause the immunoglobulin to leak, which will cause patients to live with poor immunity, so patients will get infections and low-grade fever.
Above are the common causes of low fever, which is mainly caused by poor immunity, so patients with kidney failure should provide enough nutrition and improve their immune system, which will make them get rid of infections.
