How the kidney "works" during acute renal failure

Your kidneys will suddenly stop functioning for one or more reasons. In general, there are three main reasons: toxic substances, immune response to drugs, as well as acute glomerulonephritis and other infections or diseases, can seriously damage the kidneys enough to make it the point of failure; severe burns Sudden decline in blood pressure, severe bleeding (such as crushed trauma), or a large heart attack, will lead to blood loss, thus damaging the kidneys; the last reason is the urinary tract somewhere blocked, so that the urine suddenly and completely blocked The

The disease caused by the dysfunction, will make your kidneys can not produce urine, resulting in waste products accumulated in the blood. Your body of water can no longer effectively discharge, so the phenomenon of water accumulation. Finally, under normal circumstances, the concentration of chemical concentrations adjusted by the kidneys at any time also poses a dangerous imbalance.

Acute renal failure is a common condition, but the more severe acute renal failure (such as acute renal failure caused by glomerulonephritis) is extremely rare.

What are the symptoms?
The most obvious symptoms, that is, your urine output is less than usual, urinating every day may be less than half a liter. In a very short time, you will lose appetite, nausea more and more serious, and began to vomit. If not timely treatment, drowsiness, insanity, cramps and coma and other symptoms will occur. In most cases, the symptoms of acute renal failure, at first, will be more obvious than the symptoms of renal failure.

What are the dangers
Acute renal failure is a potentially dangerous disease that depends on the severity of the underlying cause of renal failure. Even if the use of artificial kidney machine for treatment, patients will not necessarily be restored.

How should I deal with it? If you have acute renal failure, you need to be hospitalized for treatment, it is best to live in a hospital with a special treatment unit for kidney disease. If the cause of acute renal failure is unknown, you may have to undergo a series of diagnostic tests including blood and urine sampling, intravenous renal imaging, and renal biopsy.

How to treat
If acute renal failure is caused by severe bleeding or a heart attack, it is usually necessary to receive emergency treatment. Treatment of the formal rules may be. If the diagnostic test shows that the cause of acute renal failure is blocked, you may need to undergo abdominal surgery to block the exclusion. If the cause of the disease is the disease of the kidney itself, even if the basic cause of renal failure to obtain a successful treatment, but the kidney continues to suffer serious damage (this situation often occurs), the treatment method is different.

For example, take blood or plasma from the veins, or add diuretics that increase urine output, and other drugs that restore your kidneys to normal function. In some cases (eg, acute glomerulonephritis), the use of special and effective drugs to treat. In other cases, the doctor may use the artificial kidney machine to replace the function of your kidney until your kidneys return to normal function so far. This treatment is called dialysis. Dialysis therapy is painless, but if you have acute kidney failure, you may have to wait several weeks before kidney function returns to normal.

During your treatment, you may need a special diet of high-calorie low-protein, and the liquid you drink every day should not exceed half a liter. This diet can minimize the workload of your kidneys (or artificial kidneys).

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