Many patients feel worried and fearful after learning that they have chronic renal failure, “Will poor kidneys affect sex life?” “Can I still get married and have children?” “Is this disease incurable? ?” These worries and fears affect the mood invisibly, leading to depression.
Actually, chronic renal failure is not a monster. Director Wang Yiping, Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that in the face of chronic renal failure Don’t panic, you should “despise it strategically and pay attention to it tactically”: In thought, we must establish confidence in defeating the disease, and in action, we must actively cooperate with doctors to carry out scientific and standardized treatment.
Wang Yiping, Director, Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
We hereby invite Director Wang to answer the patients’ questions.
Worry 1: Will kidney function problems affect sex life?
Chronic renal failure generally does not affect sex life. However, it may have a certain impact on most kidney patients, especially those with dialysis, and psychological factors are considered to be the main reason for the abnormal sexual function of hemodialysis patients. Other factors include hormones, drugs or complications, neurological factors, etc.
Editor’s Comment: Take it easy, you know.
Worry 2: Is it possible to get married and have children with renal failure?
Chronic renal failure patients can form happy families just like ordinary people. It’s just that there are differences between men and women when it comes to childbirth. Chronic renal failure does not affect the male reproductive system, and men can be decent fathers.
However, women’s pregnancy often increases the burden on the kidneys, which may lead to aggravated renal damage. At the same time, due to the storage of toxins in the body, it may also lead to miscarriage or stillbirth. . If women with chronic renal failure want to become pregnant, they should consider carefully, and ask doctors from the nephrology department and obstetrics and gynecology department to jointly evaluate the condition and make a decision.
Editor’s comment: Being a mother is not easy, please cherish it.
Worry three: Is this disease hopeless?
Chronic renal failure is a worldwide problem, and there is currently no cure.
However, currently available for patients with chronic renal failure who do not require dialysis Non-dialysis integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapy. It mainly includes three aspects:
■Traditional Chinese medicine orally by adopting the method of syndrome differentiation and treatment
■ Take the method of traditional Chinese medicine retention enema to remove excess toxins from the body through the colon
■ Strictly control diet and adopt “three low strategies”: low salt, low fat, low phosphorus and low protein p>
Editor’s comment: There are always more solutions than difficulties.
In short, “despise strategically and pay attention to tactics”, patients with chronic renal failure can coexist harmoniously with the disease and live a good life quality.
At the same time, Director Wang emphasized that early screening, early diagnosis and early treatment are very important for chronic renal failure.
Ordinary people should have routine urinalysis and renal function tests every year, especially those with chronic nephritis, diabetes, and hypertension should have routine urinalysis and renal function tests , so that kidney problems can be detected early.