Many young people suffer from end-stage chronic kidney failure without any obvious warning signs beforehand - Photo: XUAN MAI
While working normally, many young people are suddenly diagnosed with end-stage chronic kidney failure during a health check, even though they had no warning signs of the disease before. Meanwhile, this is a disease that requires lifelong treatment, is costly to treat, and has a significant impact on health.
According to statistics from the artificial kidney department of Cho Ray Hospital (HCMC), since the beginning of the year, it has received 450 patients for regular dialysis, of which nearly 60 patients are under 35 years old (accounting for 15%). The common point is that these patients entering the department are almost all in the final stage.
Doctor CKI Pham Minh Khoi - Department of Nephrology, Cho Ray Hospital - said that chronic kidney failure often progresses silently and has no obvious symptoms.
Symptoms appear when the disease progresses or is in a severe stage. These signs are often nonspecific and can be easily confused with symptoms of other organ systems.
Accordingly, the patient feels tired, dizzy, nauseous, anorexia, pale. Some other more specific signs of the disease are swelling of the limbs, more severe are shortness of breath, arrhythmia, cognitive disorders. At this time, the patient has very severe chronic kidney failure.
Doctor Khoi added that eating salty foods, drinking a lot and staying up late are habits and activities that are not good for health.
Although these factors are not the direct cause of kidney disease, they are classified as risk factors that promote kidney failure to progress and become more severe.
For patients with chronic liver diseases such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, if not treated properly and continue to drink a lot, it can easily lead to cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer. When liver failure occurs, it can easily lead to kidney failure.
In addition, foods used when drinking (snack) are often seasoned too salty or too sweet, or if not prepared hygienically, can cause food poisoning, liver failure, and kidney failure.
Because chronic kidney failure progresses silently, Dr. Khoi recommends that people need to have regular health check-ups. Kidney disease tests are performed at reputable hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centers.
Every day, you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle (sleep early and get enough sleep, exercise), reduce salt in your diet, limit the use of foods with high salt content such as: braised foods, pickled foods, canned foods, processed foods...
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