Five Danger Signs Not to Ignore

2015-09-12 07:04

Here we will introduce five danger signs to help us realize that kidney disease and heart disease may be caused. Kidney is very closely related to heart, and they can affect each other in the long term if one of both is impaired.

Heart makes blood get pumped to other parts of our body. Kidney filters the blood to eliminate wastes and fluids in blood, then filtered blood goes back to heart. In this way, blood flows in our body, forming blood circulation. In addition, kidney regulates electrolyte balance, stimulate production of red blood cell and help control blood pressure. Heart is the key to our life, and it makes blood flow into organs and tissues to supply them oxygen and nutrition. Besides, in this process, wastes produced by metabolism are carried away to maintain health of cells.

Arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and diabetes can make kidney and heart get affected, even damaged. These three diseases are the most leading causes of kidney disease and heart disease for us.

Now please see the five danger signs which we can not ignore in daily life:

1. edema

If there is edema or swelling happening on your body like feet, ankles or faces, it is possible to connect with kidney failure or heart failure. Kidney has great difficulty in removing wastes and fluids from body through urine if damaged, and kidney function will decline, leading to edema finally. If heart failure occurs, kidney can not get enough blood to filter and edema may appear.

2. high blood pressure

Blood pressure has much to do with kidney and heart. If blood pressure is very high, blood vessels can be impaired in kidney or heart. In this way, diseases are resulted in. It is known that hypertension is the leading cause of kidney disease, strokes and heart attack.

3. short breath on bed

Water retention in lungs can cause short breath, especially when you lie flat on bed. This sign is very common for heart and kidney disease.

4. proteinuria or blood in urine

In normal situation, protein and red blood cells can not leak out from glomerular filtration membrane because these are big molecular substances. If kidney is damaged, proteinuria and blood in urine can appear.

5. high cholesterol level

Much cholesterol in blood can block and narrow blood vessels, and if this happen in heart, coronary heart disease can be caused and lead to heart attack. Besides, for patients with kidney disease, they are very likely to have heart disease in the later period.

The above five signs are very dangerous, and if finding you have them, you need to see doctors right now. quick and timely treatment can help slow down diseases, even save your life. Anything about heart or kidney disease, welcome to contact our online doctor or leave a message anytime. Reply will be given fastest for you.

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