Can renal insufficiency be cured? How to treat renal insufficiency

Renal insufficiency is a relatively common kidney disease nowadays. There are many factors in daily life that can cause renal insufficiency. Therefore, the question of whether renal insufficiency can be cured has become a hot topic of great concern. So, can renal insufficiency be cured? Let’s take a closer look at it below!

Renal insufficiency is a clinical syndrome caused by a variety of reasons. It is a serious damage to the glomerulus, which causes the body to have disorders in excreting metabolic waste and regulating water, electrolyte, acid and base balance. Divided into acute and chronic. The treatment of renal insufficiency is a very long process. For patients with early and middle stages of chronic renal failure, conservative treatment is currently the main approach. Patients with late-stage chronic renal failure require dialysis treatment or kidney transplantation.

Chinese medicine treatment for renal insufficiency

1. The basic pathology of renal failure is glomerular fibrosis. An important factor causing fibrosis is the disorder of coagulation mechanism, which causes fibrin deposition in the kidney, resulting in decreased glomerular filtration rate, decreased renal function, and ultimately damage to the renal unit. In the field of treatment, the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine focuses on the characteristics of the disease and advocates the use of triple complementary therapies to comprehensively treat chronic renal failure with the purpose of maintaining the overall health of the body, traditional Chinese medicine physical therapy, traditional Chinese medicine enema and other traditional Chinese medicine treatments and symptomatic treatments. Thereby improving the function of the remaining renal units and achieving the goal of curing chronic renal failure.

2. According to the patient's condition, use different foods to treat the symptoms. It can nourish the kidney and reduce turbidity, clear away heat and detoxify; warm the kidney and strengthen the spleen, invigorate qi and produce blood; specific Chinese medicine preparations can increase the excretion of toxins in the blood of patients with chronic renal failure, improve lipid metabolism, increase serum albumin and reduce kidney pathological damage; Chinese medicine intravenous infusion can achieve the effects of strengthening the foundation, invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis; and Chinese medicine enema acts directly on the colon, plays a role in clearing the bowels and reducing turbidity, so that toxins in the blood are directly discharged from the intestines. There are also many physical therapies, including ear acupuncture, water acupuncture, light therapy, cupping, walking cupping, Chinese medicine therapy, ion introduction, large and medium frequency, small and medium frequency, ultrasound, etc. In clinical application, the physical therapist will use Chinese medicine diagnosis to select appropriate physical therapy items according to the patient's different constitution, pulse, cold, heat, deficiency and excess, and combined with the patient's different clinical manifestations.

What should patients with renal insufficiency pay attention to in their diet?

Kidney patients, if their urine volume is normal, without oliguria and renal failure, should eat more vegetables and fruits to provide adequate vitamins. If the patient's urine volume decreases, especially when it is less than 500 ml per day, he or she should selectively consume vegetables and fruits. Because vegetables and fruits are generally rich in potassium, and patients with renal disease and oliguria have elevated potassium levels in their serum. High blood potassium levels can cause cardiac arrest, which is life-threatening.

Vegetables, fruits, and grains are all foods rich in potassium. Fruits with higher potassium content include watermelon, banana, pineapple, mango, dates, cantaloupe, etc.; vegetables with higher potassium content include amaranth, spinach, celery, carrots, bamboo shoots, potatoes, etc. Kidney patients should eat less during the oliguria stage. If the blood potassium is low after using diuretics, they can eat more, especially fresh fruit juice which is rich in potassium and can be used as an oral potassium supplement.