Post Date December, 03 2023
The person who is most important to you after getting sick is not only the doctor, but also yourself. Many decisions require you to make your own choices. Therefore, even if you are sick or panicked, you should maintain a rational mood in the midst of panic, in order to minimize the harm caused by the disease to you.
For kidney disease, what we kidney friends should understand as soon as possible!
The most important thing for kidney disease is not to reduce the index, but to protect renal function
For kidney disease, all our efforts are ultimately aimed at protecting renal function, maintaining its normal needs, and delaying or not entering dialysis or transplantation.
Reducing urinary protein, blood pressure, blood sugar, and other indicators are all aimed at better protecting renal function, but most patients with kidney disease do not have a deep understanding of this. Early and middle stage renal disease usually has no physical discomfort, and can only be detected through laboratory tests to see abnormal indicators. Therefore, abnormal indicators are like a thorn in the heart of all patients with kidney disease. Many people waste their efforts to reduce some indicators, and ultimately such behavior may accelerate the deterioration of renal function.
Why do you say that? Is the indicator either good or good?
First of all, kidney disease is not a serious indicator, but a serious condition. It is not a mild indicator, but a mild condition. Take IgA nephropathy, which has the highest incidence rate among glomerulopathies, as an example. Both patients also have mild proteinuria. Compared with those with occult blood 1+, those with occult blood 3+will think that occult blood 1+is less serious and those with occult blood 3+are more serious. However, the actual situation is probably not the case. It is likely that the pathology of occult blood 1+is more serious than that of occult blood 3+.
The above IgA nephropathy is just an analogy, and there are many such analogies. For example, in nephrotic syndrome, proteinuria is also involved. Proteinuria of 7g is not necessarily more difficult to treat or severe than proteinuria of 3g.
Secondly, the indicators are only part of the treatment, not all.
"What patients often see and think of is only indicators, but from a doctor's perspective, it is likely that they are not so concerned about your abnormal indicators. Doctors are more concerned about whether the drugs given to you can have a long-term protective effect on kidney function.".
So many patients often fail to understand doctors, such as the misconception that why my occult blood is still there and the doctor doesn't prescribe medication for me, this doctor is not responsible! "What the doctor thinks is that there may be some drugs that can reduce occult blood, but lowering occult blood may not have much significance in protecting the kidney. Instead, adding additional drugs to you may increase the burden on the kidney, so it is only recommended that you continue to observe.".
Why should I have a kidney puncture if my index is abnormal? Other people's index is higher than mine, but there is no puncture. This doctor wants to make money! What doctors think is that because the indicators and clinical pathology are sometimes not necessarily consistent, when doctors feel that the significance of puncture for treatment is far greater than the small risks posed by puncture, they will recommend puncture instead of trying to earn your money.
Kidney disease is a long-term struggle process that requires endurance and persistence, but survival with disease can be just as exciting?
Stay away from Jianghu warlocks and rumors
In China, there are a large number of people without medical qualifications who are treating people, and patients who spend money are likely to die in advance. In China, many fake things are more real than real. To survive here, we need a pair of fire eyes, gold, and gold. This is especially true for patients with kidney disease, because our kidneys are actually very fragile.
Our kidneys are excretory organs, and many drugs are excreted through the kidneys. Do some drugs of unknown origin contain renal toxicity? Will it increase risk? Do you want to take a dose of effective medicine yourself? These should be consulted with a professional doctor, rather than listening to online rumors and warlocks.
If the patient's main idea is to better cooperate with the doctor's treatment, manage their own diet, exercise, and other aspects of life, it is very helpful for the condition.
If the patient's opinion is to dictate blindly, interfere with the doctor's medication, and use rumors to question and slander the real doctor, it will only delay treatment, which no one wants to see.
I once encountered a visiting doctor who drank a prescription made by myself all year round to strengthen my body. Not only did I fail to strengthen my body, but I also ate myself into uremia. It's really regrettable! Some time ago, someone with an ancestral secret recipe asked me how his patient had uremia, and why urine protein occult blood had come down, and creatinine had not yet come down. The patient was particularly uremic, and he was still staring at treating protein occult blood. I was helpless!
