Why Kidney Failure Patients Are Afraid Of Catching Cold

2014-12-27 03:44

When kidney failure patients leave the hospital, doctors will tell them be sure to prevent cold. Well, why kidney disease patients are afraid of catching cold? Will cold affect the kidneys?

Cold is a kind of infection. Due to the attack of viruses, they will produce lots of immune complexes in the body. Immune complexes will cause damages on kidneys.

Researches have found that when immunity is low, immune complexes deposit in the kidneys, thereby causing kidney damage. Kidney disease in this case will occur.

What is immune complex?

Bacteria, virus and other harmful substances attack the body. Also human body will produce some metabolic wastes. Under this condition, immune system will have an attack with these wasteful and toxic substances. That is, antigens and antibodies will combine together, forming antigen-antibodies complexes. Because this is a process of immune, it is also called immune complexes. These immune complexes normally should be removed by various ways. However, due to decreased immunity, they cannot be discharged and will deposit in human body, causing damages on your body.

Why kidneys will get damages?

Because kidneys have function of filtering, blood will flow through kidneys more than 50 times every day. These immune complexes easily deposit in kidneys. Then kidneys will be damaged.

Why kidney disease patients are afraid of catching cold? Cold is also an infection and it will produce immune complexes. So kidney disease patients should prevent cold.

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