Jade is a kidney disease. Symptoms and treatment, diet

Jade is a kidney disease that affects the glomerular system. More often the disease occurs in women. It has several species that differ in symptoms and severity. Nephritis appears both as an independent disease, and after the transfer of other diseases.

Causes

The reasons for the development of nephritis depend on whether the mechanism of inflammation of the kidneys occurred - primary or secondary.

1. The cause of the primary mechanism is the development of inflammation due to the pathogen entering the organ structure.
2. The cause of the secondary mechanism is a large-scale infection with an infection that can affect not only the body as a whole, but also the kidneys.

More often the disease happens if the immune system has already lost its ability to resist microbes and allowed to spread throughout the body. But it is also important to consider the general causes that contribute to infection:

• mercury or lead poisoning;
• intoxication of the body with poisons;
• the presence of autoimmune diseases;
• pathology in the perinephric space;
• excessive sugar intake in diabetes;
• metabolic disorders in the body;
• oncopathology;
• infectious diseases;
• some diseases of the reproductive system;
• the presence of thrombotic vessels surrounding the kidney;
• taking potent drugs based on antibiotics, often synthetic ones.

Symptoms

Symptoms of nephritis disease do not depend on the causes, but vary depending on the duration of infection. Common symptoms are listed below:

• pain in the pelvic organs;
• discomfort during urination;
• frequent forced urination;
• the presence of sediment in the urine;
• the presence of pus or blood components in the urine;
• swelling of different parts of the body;
• the presence of vomiting;
• fever and chills;
• increase or decrease in pressure.

Depending on the type of disease, the symptoms of kidney nephritis in adults may be different.

Diagnostics

The effectiveness of the treatment of nephritis mainly depends on the quality of the patient’s diagnosis and the correct determination of the type of disease. This is due to the fact that jade has several stages that need to be treated differently. If there are symptoms characteristic of nephritis, the doctor has the right to prescribe the following types of studies:

1. Analysis of urine. Since the kidneys participate in the formation and excretion of urine, their condition is also determined by the state of the urine. A sign of the disease is the presence of a large number of red blood cells or white blood cells in the urine.
2. Blood analysis. If doctors find a high number of white blood cells in the blood, this will mean that the body is trying to defeat the infection. To clarify in which kidney inflammation passes, blood is taken from both sides of the lower back. It is also important to donate blood for biochemistry, since the presence of urea in the blood indicates pathology in the kidneys.
3. Ultrasound of the kidneys. An ultrasound of the kidneys allows you to quickly determine what condition the kidney is in, namely, the condition of the nodules and tubules. Since at the initial stages the above methods may not show the result, the doctor prescribes a kidney biopsy.

Kinds

There are four types of common inflammatory kidney pathologies:

1. Glomerulonephritis is a kidney lesion that affects the renal glomeruli. Since the main component for the filter is the glomerulus, when it is damaged, the ability to filter is reduced. This leads to the fact that, on the one hand, blood enters the urine, and on the other hand, the ability to remove toxins from the body is lost.
2. Pyelonephritis is an acute course of nephritis in which the renal pelvis, parenchyma and calyx of the kidneys are affected, which leads to difficulties in removing urine from the kidney. Inflammation begins after bacteria enter the bladder. Due to the structure of the pelvic organs in people, more often women suffer from this type of jade.
3. Interstitial nephritis is a pathological process that affects the interstitial tissue that is located between the renal tubules, while other parts of the kidneys do not suffer. This leads to an increase and swelling of the kidney. Interstitial nephritis is characterized by the non-infectious nature of the formation. The disease occurs at any age. According to statistics, people aged 20 to 50 years get sick with interstitial nephritis. The form is divided into acute and chronic.
4. Radiation nephritis - nephritis resulting from irradiation. The disease occurs both after a single and regular charging with radionuclides. Accompanied by dystrophy of the tubular epithelium. Sensitive parenchyma of the kidneys also suffers when irradiated.

For all types of inflammatory pathology, common symptoms are characteristic, but additional symptoms that depend on the state of the person are allocated to determine the specific type.

Therapy

The drugs that the patient should take are prescribed only by a doctor, in no case do not self-medicate, because this leads to bad consequences. After an accurate diagnosis, a period of medication is prescribed depending on the form of the disease. If the medicine is the cause of the disease, then the drug is urgently stopped, and an injection is administered that removes the remaining drug in the blood. In infectious diseases, antiviral drugs and antibiotics are used. The elimination of symptoms is carried out using solutions that allow you to control the excretion of urine. With the help of drugs, you can normalize the pressure. When the kidneys do not cope with their function, the blood is cleaned using special equipment.

Preparations

Types of drugs for treatment:

1. Removal of toxins - diuretic drugs are prescribed.
2. The limitation of antibody formation is glucocorticosteroids.
3. Restrictions on the growth (development) of cells are cytostatics.
4. Normalization of pressure - diuretics.
5. Harvesting deficiency of vitamins in the body - vitamins A, B, C, etc.
6. It is possible to cure nephritis in the initial stages, but if you do nothing, it can be fatal.

Folk methods

Depending on the symptoms, treatment of nephritis - kidney disease in adults - has long been carried out using folk remedies. They are recommended to be used regularly with periodic recipe changes. If potent recipes are used, it is imperative to take short breaks. Before using folk remedies, it is necessary to adjust the diet. With jade, it is recommended to use the following folk recipes and recommendations:

1. Tincture, consisting of 300 g of onions, 1 teaspoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of rosemary leaves. The tincture is prepared on the basis of 700 ml of dry white wine. She insists without exposure to sunlight for about 20 days. Take 3 tablespoons 3 times daily before meals.
2. Raw kidney potato juice is used to flush the kidneys and as a diuretic. Drink freshly squeezed juice of 0.5 cup in the morning on an empty stomach.
3. To strengthen the kidneys, use a mixture of potato and mountain ash juice, which insist for 1 hour.
4. Daily consume half a liter of freshly squeezed blueberry juice.
5. Pour 1 tablespoon of dried chamomile flowers from the pharmacy with 1 glass of boiling water. Consume 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
6. Lingonberry decoction. Take 1 glass 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Diet

The diet for nephritis disease should not differ radically from everyday. But for effective treatment, however, the diet will have to be reviewed to prevent the possibility of kidney overload. Most people will not have to limit themselves in their favorite dishes, but if you are a lover of harmfulness, then only gentle products will have to be left in the diet. During the diet, it is recommended to adhere to the following recommendations, which should be followed:

• consume protein-rich foods;
• make a diet so that the calorie content of the daily diet is high;
• observe the presence in the diet of a large number of vitamins;
• adjust the water-salt balance;
• crushing the diet, i.e. there is up to 6 times a day.

The following are foods you can eat with jade:

• bread of any kind;
• all kinds of soups (best without adding meat);
• lean meats;
• lean fish meat;
• eggs in a small amount;
• from sweets - honey, wild berries and fruits;
• tea of ​​any sort is suitable as a drink.

In severe acute jade, salt must be completely eliminated. The amount of water should be comparable with the amount of urine removed from the body.

Prevention

The main points that must be observed for the prevention of jade:

• timely treatment of any infectious disease that leads to a weakening of immunity and re-infection with jade;
• engage in a healthy lifestyle, which includes regular exercise, proper nutrition and adequate rest;
• carry out activities that are able to raise the level of immunity;
• avoidance of hypothermia. Hypothermia causes a violation of the blood supply and nutrition of the kidneys, which in turn can play a role in the formation of this pathology;
• hardening the body will help in the overall strengthening of health;
• try not to communicate with a person who has this disease, since the bacteria that he has can be transmitted to you;
• the use of a normal amount of water, which will help keep the kidneys in a clean state;
• Avoid drafts at any time of the year.

Danger

The disease, if left untreated in a timely manner, does not go away without complications. The main ones are called heart failure and eclampic seizures. Pathologies of the heart system are manifested in the form of cyanosis, shortness of breath, enlarged heart. Then there is the occurrence of congestion in the lungs, manifested in the form of wheezing and cough with sputum. In rare cases, pulmonary edema is possible. With eclampsia, cerebral edema and cerebral spasm appear. It manifests itself in the form of migraine and vomiting. It is difficult, but it passes quickly enough.