Why can foot bath help kidney patients

Some patients with kidney disease will have foot bath items when they receive Chinese medicine. What role does foot bath play in the end? How does it stand in the treatment of kidney disease?

Foot bath what effect?
Foot bath has a long history in our country. As the old saying goes, "Beginning in the morning with a purse of water, and before going to bed, it is not surprising that you are 100 years old." Even if you don't understand pathology, you know that you sleep well with hot water at night before going to bed.
Su Dongpo, a famous celebrity in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote in his article: “The foot bath is not effective at the beginning of the exercise. However, for more than a hundred days, the utility function is incomparable. It is more effective than the medication.” Kidney experts said: “Yin Cold is all from the feet, and into the foot of the heart.
So why does foot bath work?
Because the feet of the body distribute most of the main meridians and important acupuncture points of the human body, the thermal conductivity of warm water makes it easy for the medicine to travel along the meridians and reach the entire body.
This may seem more illusion. In fact, we have experience in our daily lives: When the nose is not clear, put a cup of hot water under the nose, the steam is smoky, and the nose is quickly cleared. The truth is the same.

The application of foot bath in the treatment of kidney disease
We know that Chinese medicine is not a "kidney disease," one that is dialectical treatment, so patients with kidney disease show different syndromes before they can use different traditional Chinese medicine foot bath prescriptions.
For example, patients with "qi and yin deficiency" often show tetany, fever, thirst, fatigue, red tongue, and rapid pulse. They can use herbs such as honeysuckle, eugonania, euphorbia, and so on.
Among them, Streptococcus olivaceus and Cinnamomum variabilis are cold and active, and Shujin active can improve the immunity of patients with kidney disease; Zeeran Huoxuetongjing, benefit water swelling, can enhance blood circulation and eliminate edema.
For example, patients with "Kidney and kidney yin deficiency" often show weakness in the waist and knees, five upset fevers, dizziness and tinnitus, irritability in insomnia, little red tongue coating, and a few pulsed strings. They can use drugs such as vine, red peony, and rehmannia at night. .
Among them, the night Jiaotan Yangxin Anshen, Hurricane Tongluo, can relieve this heart failure, improve the quality of sleep in patients with kidney disease; Chishao heat and cooling blood, Sanyu analgesia, rehmannia tonic Yin, filling lean marrow marrow effect, Has a good blood-supplementing effect, can relieve complications such as anemia, heart failure, but also improve the immune system of patients with kidney disease.

The position of Chinese medicine in the treatment of nephropathy
In the treatment of kidney disease, Western medicine's main role is to suppress or kill the clinical symptoms of inflammation, urine protein, occult blood, and creatinine; the main role of Chinese medicine is to improve blood circulation, enhance the patient's constitution, and protect the remaining nephron.
The two are highly complementary and there are no absolute advantages or disadvantages.
In the treatment of kidney disease, Chinese medicine is not capable of reversing arrogance, nor can it immediately eliminate various symptoms and restore various indicators. However, Chinese medicine can slowly regulate the functions of the body itself and enhance the body's ability to repair itself.
Therefore, Chinese medicine does not directly treat kidney disease. It is only through conditioning and supplementation that the treatment of kidney disease has become relatively easy and the patient feels better.

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These 5 small habits can stabilize your blood sugar for 30 years

The biggest headache for diabetics is blood sugar instability. For this reason, it is not only necessary to take various medications, but also to be cautious in the diet.
The doctors summed up many years of clinical experience and found that the following 5 seemingly ordinary habits could keep blood sugar stable for decades.

First: Adhere to medication
There must be a lot of sugar friends who have expressed disdain for this: Whoever insists on medication will not, as if anyone did not insist on medication!
In fact, there are indeed many diabetics who are somewhat casual on medications:
Once the blood sugar is controlled, he wants to reduce the drug or even stop the drug;
Once the blood sugar fluctuates, it will add its own medicine, even using the so-called remedies;
Occasionally I didn't take medicine for two meals. Should it be okay?
......
These behaviors seem innocuous, but the impact on blood glucose control is far beyond imagination.

 Second: ground blood glucose
Changes in blood sugar, the body itself is not much feeling, relying on instrument detection.
Many sugary friends can still measure several times a day at first, but as time goes on, they begin to feel impatient with this habit.
Especially when the test results are similar for a period of time, it is even more difficult to measure blood sugar every day.
Even some sugary friends believe that their medication, diet, daily routines, etc., maintain strict rules, and blood sugar certainly will not change, and it does not matter if it is not measured.
This kind of luck may not be allowed.

Third: manage mouth
Diabetic diets have stricter restrictions and need to quit smoking and drinking.
Fortunately, at the beginning, the sugar-mates have a relatively strong self-control ability and, together with the family's attention, they can keep their mouths shut.
But after a few years, smoking and drinking are already difficult to control. In particular, the simultaneous detection of blood sugar, found that normal sugar sugar friends, but also produced the "occasionally smoke a little drink will not happen," the illusion.
The same is true of the diet, and it is still possible to maintain a light diet at first, but soon it is difficult to resist the temptation of food.

Fourth: take a step
As one of the “five carriages” for the treatment of diabetes, the importance of proper exercise is beyond doubt.
Walking, Tai Chi and other soothing exercises are ideal for people with diabetes.
The significance of proper exercise is that it can greatly reduce various diabetic complications caused by blood viscosity, such as diabetic eye disease, diabetic foot disease and diabetic nephropathy.
Any one of these complications will bring a heavy burden on the patient and the entire family.

Fifth: Emotional Stability
Cheerful and optimistic mood is the best medicine to control diabetes.
Feelings of happiness, anger, worries, thoughts, sadness, terror, and panic all affect the normal operation of the cardiovascular system. Only stable emotions are conducive to health.

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What kind of person is farthest from renal failure uremia

What kind of person is farthest from renal failure uremia?Even if you do not have kidney disease, you know that it is a very difficult disease, and it is basically incurable when you reach the stage of uremia of renal failure.
Who is not easy to get renal failure uremia?

1, people without family history
Although there is no clear evidence at present, most types of nephropathy have family clustering, and it can be said that there are certain genetic factors.
Therefore, those who do not have a family history have a relatively low chance of having kidney disease.
2, people with good habits
Regardless of diet or daily life, it is easy to observe certain regulations and it is easy to maintain the stability of immune function. The condition of immunity is very important for kidney disease because most of the types of kidney disease are related to the immune inflammatory response.
Therefore, people with balanced diet, reasonable daily living, and proper exercise have a low chance of having kidney disease. Even if they have kidney disease, they can delay the onset of uremia with renal failure.

 3, actively cooperate with the treatment of people
Even if you have kidney disease unfortunately, if you can actively cooperate with doctors, it can also reduce the rate of development of kidney disease. It can be maintained for more than ten years or even life in the initial stage.
The current medical level does not reverse kidney disease, but it can protect the remaining nephron and meet the minimum human needs. Even with renal insufficiency and elevated serum creatinine, the onset of uremia can be delayed.
4. People who maintain peace of mind
Mild peace of mind has two advantages. First, it helps stabilize blood pressure. Second, it helps improve immunity.
The influence of emotion on the body has been known by more and more people, especially the influence of emotion on blood pressure and endocrine conditions, which often endanger life. The peaceful mind can play an unexpectedly beneficial role in treatment.

In short, the incidence of chronic kidney disease in the world has exceeded 10%. It can be said that kidney disease has become a relatively common disease.
The horrors of uremia are naturally known, but as long as you do the above four points, even if you can not avoid kidney disease, but also can keep you away from renal failure uremia.

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What is the difference with proteinuria

What is microalbuminuria? What is the difference with proteinuria? Nephropathy patients need to understand, the relationship between urinary microalbumin, urinary protein, and the relationship between urinary protein and renal physicians. After reading, it is known that urine is a very common examination item for patients with kidney disease, but regarding protein, Urine microalbumin, urinary protein, etc., many patients with kidney disease expressed confusion: What are the differences between these two tests?

Clinical significance of urinary protein
It is well-known that there is a plus sign for urine protein, which usually means that the kidneys are damaged. Therefore, urinary protein is one of the important criteria for judging kidney disease.
But there is a problem here: physiological urine protein.
Although the kidney is not damaged, but due to various reasons such as body position, diet, exercise, etc., it will also cause urinary protein plus sign.
Therefore, when there is a plus sign for urinary protein, the doctor will usually ask the patient to do 24-hour urinary protein quantification for further confirmation.
However, it is inconvenient to make 24 urine protein quantification. It involves the collection and preservation of urine and may require hospitalization. Therefore, a test item named "urine protein creatinine ratio" is also called, which is abbreviated as ACR.
ACR is generally used to detect random urine, and the value has a very significant positive correlation with 24-hour urinary protein quantification, so it can well replace 24-hour urinary protein quantitation.

Clinical Significance of Microalbuminuria
The urinary protein test is so rough that although ACR or 24-hour urinary protein quantification can be used as a supplement, there are still some cases that are easily overlooked.
For example, early kidney damage caused by hypertension and diabetes.
This kind of protein leakage caused by elevated glomerular pressure, urinary protein added in the early days, but this time has caused kidney damage, and more importantly, this stage is the best time for treatment.
In order not to miss this optimal treatment opportunity, we have found urinary microalbumin as a solution.
As the name suggests, urinary microalbumin is used to detect urinary proteins below 0.15g/24h.
This is one of the important criteria for early diagnosis of secondary nephropathy such as diabetic nephropathy and hypertensive nephropathy.

The order of urine test in patients with kidney disease
In general, for a newly diagnosed kidney patient, the order of urine tests is probably this:
1, no history of diabetes, hypertension
First check the urine routine. If everything is OK, it's fine. If urinary protein is added, 24-hour urinary protein quantification is required.
If the 24-hour urinary protein quantification is not convenient, ACR can be done.
At this point, you can basically confirm whether or not you have kidney disease.
2, there is a history of diabetes, hypertension
First check the urine routine, if everything is normal, you also need to check urinary albumin for further judgment.
The following steps are consistent with the former case.
Here, everyone should understand the relationship between urinary microalbumin and urinary protein, and also understand why these tests are performed.

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How is the treatment effect judged about kidney disease

The doctor said: For kidney disease, how is the treatment effect judged?
When many patients with nephropathy gave me messages, they always complained about their own treatment for many years. Major hospitals ran through them but they had no effect. However, after I carefully asked for treatment experience, I found that there was a lot of misunderstandings.
In the end the treatment of kidney disease is how to determine it?

Although patients with kidney disease are at a loss for most laboratory tests, urinary protein, creatinine, and other values ​​can still be seen. Therefore, in many people's opinion, the therapeutic effect of kidney disease is the degree to which these figures return to normal.
This is actually a kind of misunderstanding. This must be started from the significance of the inspection.
The essence of medicine is through the body's various anomalous manifestations, deducing the damaged parts and ways of damage, and then using drugs, instruments, etc., to repair the damaged parts, or inhibit the damage.
For example, urine protein, most of the urinary protein produced by the reason is an inflammatory reaction, so we use hormones to inhibit the inflammatory response, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating urine protein.
Please note that the "derivation" process here includes three parts: testing, asking history, and patient self-reporting.
The laboratory tests referred to various inspection items;
To ask for a medical history, doctors use the patient's previous treatment process and their own treatment experience to judge the condition of the patient.
The patient's self-reporting is based on the patient's description of the abnormal condition of the patient and assisted judgment.
Therefore, the test form can only reflect a small part of the patient's condition, and most of the remaining condition cannot be reflected on the test form.

Let me give you an example. You understand:
We often experience a feeling of "uncomfortable". Although this feeling is real, it will be carefully described but it will not be able to tell. Go to the hospital to check it, the data is normal, it seems there should be no problem.
This is because laboratory tests can only reflect a small part of the illness. The so-called "uncomfortable" feeling does not reach the pathological changes of the body and cannot be reflected in the data.

The same is true for the treatment of kidney disease. For patients, reducing urinary protein and creatinine is naturally the most important, but for doctors, it may be necessary to increase hemoglobin and albumin. Even sometimes, letting patients eat dinner and sleep is the focus of treatment at this stage.
Some of these effects are reflected on the lab sheet, but you may not pay attention; some are simply a feeling and are easily overlooked.
It should be noted that the kidney includes more than two million nephron units, and as long as 30% of the nephron units can work properly, it is enough for the daily needs of the human body.
Protecting the remaining nephron is the main task. Eliminating urinary protein, creatinine, etc. are only branch tasks.
Since necrotic kidney units cannot be recovered, many times, "not worsening" or "will not accelerate deterioration" is the best effect.
Those patients who have been treated for 5 or 6 years and still have urinary protein 3+ should be thankful for not having elevated serum creatinine, because some patients have already had dialysis for only a few years after getting kidney disease.
Similarly, patients with renal failure, some can only stay in bed all day, and some can still go out to work.
Therefore, the significance of treatment is not only the number on the laboratory sheet, but also the control of the progress of the disease. It is to improve the treatment of life and to minimize the impact of disease on life.

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