How Does Renal Failure Affect the Digestive System

2014-05-18 03:09

When your kidneys fail to remove wastes from your blood, the wastes build up in the blood. It will affect all the system of your body, including digestive system. How does renal failure affect the digestive system?

Renal failure and digestive system

In the early stage of kidney failure, you may have a poor appetite or indigestion. When your medical condition worsens, anorexia, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea occur. They are associated with the accumulation of urea. Urea is waste that results from proteolysis. In the intestinal tract, there are ureases, which can break urea into ammonia. And ammonia can stimulate gastrointestinal mucous membrane, resulting inflammation and superficial multiple small ulcers, etc.

How to prevent kidney failure from affecting digestive system?

These symptoms can be eased by removing urea from your blood.

First, you should limit the intake of protein. In the different stages of kidney failure, there are different protein intake requirements. In early stage of kidney failure, you can take 0.8 g/kg protein per day. In stage 4 kidney failure, you can take 0.6 g/kg protein per day. And in the end stage, 0.4 g/kg protein intake per day is preferred.

Second, you should improve kidney function. When your kidney function improves, it can remove these wastes from your blood and then they won’t affect your digestive system. In our hospital, we have many therapies to help cleanse polluted blood, such as Medicated Bath, Foot Bath, Circle Therapy and so on. A clean blood environment helps kidney self-healing. Besides, we have therapies to dilate blood vessels to improve ischemia and anoxia, to inhibit kidney inflammation, and to prevent kidney fibrosis. The injured part of kidneys can gradually regain their ability.

Poor digestive system affects the nutrition intake and further worsen your medical condition, so you had better attach importance to it as early as possible.

At last, hope you can live a healthy and happy life.

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