What is uremia

Uremia is not an independent disease, but there were a variety of advanced kidney disease clinical syndrome , is a progressive chronic end stage renal failure . At this stage , in addition to water and electrolyte metabolism and acid-base balance , but due to the large number of metabolites in the body retention and presents a wide range of systemic symptoms digestive tract, heart , lungs, nerves, muscles, skin, blood and so on. That is the term uremia clinical performance from this perspective and talk . Thus not only the diagnosis of a doctor binding BUN , creatinine values ​​measured according to the more important is the body 's own poisoning symptoms that appear to determine the patient , the diagnosis can not be easily underground " uremia " and should not increase the patient's ideological burden .

Chinese medicine believes uremia due to renal gasification is not entitled , not from the urine out cloud overcast , cloudy evil stay infestation throughout the body overflows its pathogenesis summarized as: evil cloud thousands stomach, stomach down ; cloud Ling cardiopulmonary evil , evil cloud closed block minded ; turbid evil overflows in the skin and so on.

Symptoms of uremia

1 , digestive symptoms are Oue, poor appetite, diarrhea or constipation , mouth has Niaowei ;

2 , the cardiovascular system symptoms of hypertension, congestive heart failure, uremic pericarditis , cardiac disease ;

3 , anemia, blood system symptoms are significant bleeding tendency ;

4 , neurological symptoms appear early symptoms of neuromuscular disorders , peripheral neuropathy multi- edge , late uremic encephalopathy ; almost suction system uremic symptoms of pneumonia ;

5 , the skin may appear itchy skin and urea cream. Also often accompanied by metabolic acidosis and hyperkalemia or hypokalemia now , calcium, phosphorus and other high performance .

It should be noted that, although the above can unite performance, but clinical experience in patients with chronic renal failure , the performance of each individual symptom is not the same , with some symptoms of a system , while others have multiple symptoms .