When it comes to low back pain, people can easily associate it with kidney deficiency, kidney deficiency, and other kidney diseases. However, in reality, low back pain is not the most accurate signal of kidney disease. Generally, only acute pyelonephritis, kidney stones, and kidney tumors are prone to low back pain. Most of the time, kidney damage is silent, and by the time symptoms appear, most of the kidney's function may have been lost. A patient with renal insufficiency may have no symptoms.
So what are the signals of kidney disease? The common complaints of kidney disease referred to by the general public are swelling and low back pain. Observing carefully also includes urinary abnormalities such as hematuria and urinary vesicles. There are many foam in the urine, indicating that the content of solute in the urine is high, and probably the urine protein is high. At this point, be vigilant and conduct timely testing. This is the accurate signal for early kidney disease.
So besides careful observation on weekdays, how can early kidney disease be detected? Then we need to achieve the following points.
1. Regular physical examination. A considerable portion of patients with asymptomatic hematuria, proteinuria, and mild decrease in renal function are detected through regular health examinations. Reasonable regular examination should include routine urine examination, routine blood examination, routine stool examination, renal function examination and urinary system ultrasound examination. If abnormal phenomena are found in the above examinations, more specific examinations need to be carried out, such as CT or magnetic resonance imaging, renal isotope dynamic examination or endogenous creatinine clearance measurement, percutaneous renal biopsy histopathology examination, morphological examination of urinary red blood cells, quantitative detection of urinary protein, electrophoretic analysis of urinary protein, etc. It is best to have an inspection once a year.
2. Timely detection of suspicious signals of chronic kidney disease. In the morning, eyelid edema, lower limb edema, increased foam in urine (especially those who do not disappear for a long time), and increased nocturnal urine often indicate the possibility of chronic kidney disease.
3. For patients with hypertension and diabetes whose course of disease exceeds 5 years, the risk of kidney damage will greatly increase, and the frequency of examination should increase accordingly. In addition, newly diagnosed diabetes patients are also a group that needs special attention. This is because many diabetes patients have been diagnosed with metabolic abnormalities for a long time, which may have involved the kidneys.
Therefore, in daily life, it is not necessary to wait for obvious symptoms such as back pain to be noticed. For the early detection of kidney disease, it is still important to pay attention to urination in daily life.