Uremia refers to the most advanced stage of acute and chronic renal failure, generally referring to the fourth and fifth stages of chronic kidney disease. Once entering this stage, the renal function of the patient will be greatly changed, the endocrine function of the kidney will also be disordered, and the water, electrolyte and acid-base balance will be disturbed.
It causes a large amount of harmful substances to stay in the body, which affects the functions of various systems, and has great harm to health and even life.
Therefore, when early symptoms of uremia appear, it is necessary to check and treat as soon as possible.
However, many people don’t know the early symptoms of uremia. Below, we will introduce it in detail.
What are the early symptoms of uremia ?
1. Gastrointestinal symptoms
Due to abnormal kidney function, more and more metabolites and other substances will accumulate in the body. These substances can irritate the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract and induce disturbances in water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance.
In the early stage, patients will repeatedly experience sudden loss of appetite, frequent nausea, and even diarrhea and vomiting.
2. Symptoms of anemia
In the early stage of uremia, the patient’s renal function has undergone abnormal changes, which will lead to a large decrease in erythropoietin in the patient’s body, and the number of red blood cells will also be reduced. subsequently decreased.
It will not be able to provide more blood support for various organs, resulting in anemia of the patient. So even if the patient is in a static state, it will show excessive fatigue, frequent dizziness and other symptoms of anemia.
Three, body edema
In the early stage, edema will occur in the patient’s calf, feet and face. With the gradual development of the disease, the function of the kidneys to filter and form urine becomes lower and lower, which will lead to poor excretion of water in the body and retention in the body.
The phenomenon of edema becomes more and more obvious, and even systemic edema may occur.
4. Abnormal complexion
Because the metabolites in the blood cannot be excreted in time, they will enter the skin system, causing a lot of pigmentation on the patient’s facial skin. The skin on the body will experience repeated itching and excessive dryness.
5. Continuously unstable blood pressure
Because the water-electrolyte and acid-base balance in the patient’s body has been out of balance, and too much water cannot be excreted, It increases the pressure on the blood vessel wall.
The patient’s blood pressure value will be very unstable, such as a sudden increase or a sudden decrease. At this time, patients are usually accompanied by cardiovascular system symptoms such as dyspnea, repeated palpitations, and palpitation.
Six. Nervous system symptoms
Due to the accumulation of a large number of toxic substances in the body, these substances are very likely to cause damage to nerve cells, resulting in neurological symptoms in patients. Systemic symptoms.
For example, patients will suffer from frequent insomnia, difficulty concentrating, depression and disturbance of consciousness.
All in all, in the early stages of uremia, patients will The above 6 different symptoms appear. In addition, there are also patients who will be accompanied by the smell of ammonia in the mouth, frequent bone soreness or easy fractures, and easy infection of some bacteria and viruses.
Once these symptoms appear, they must be admitted to the hospital for regular examination as soon as possible. Then, after comprehensive consideration of the patient’s constitution and other aspects, treatments such as drugs, surgery, and blood purification are adopted. And do a good job of daily care, in order to maximize the maintenance of the patient’s health.