Do you know why everyone is afraid of diabetes? Is it really because of a simple blood sugar metabolism disorder? wrong!
Although diabetes is based on hyperglycemia as the main sign, it is more worrying about the various complications that develop from long-term patients and poor blood sugar control.
At present, there are more than 100 known complications of diabetes, which is one of the most complications. Diabetes can cause damage to multiple systems throughout the body, including the kidneys.
Kidney disease is one of the most important comorbidities in diabetic patients, and the incidence rate in China has shown a clear upward trend. Nearly 10% of diabetics eventually die, which is related to kidney disease.
Of all the causes of chronic renal failure, it ranks second, after various glomerulonephritis. Moreover, because diabetics have extremely complex metabolic disorders, once they develop end-stage kidney disease, it is often more difficult than other kidney disease treatment!
Therefore, the preventive significance of diabetic nephropathy is far more important than treatment. And if you want to prevent diabetic nephropathy, all you have to do is the following:
1. Understand the sugar kidney: In the clinical view, diabetic nephropathy in a broad sense can be divided into two categories, which are infectious and vascular lesions.
Infectious lesions include pyelonephritis and renal papillary necrosis. Vascular lesions are more complex, which are divided into microvascular and macrovascular lesions, large vascular lesions refer specifically to renal arteriosclerosis, renal arteriosclerosis, and vascular lesions refer to glomerulosclerosis.
Clinically in China, the most common type is nodular glomerulosclerosis. Therefore, what is commonly referred to clinically as diabetic nephropathy refers to glomerulosclerosis;
2. Understand the symptoms: Diabetic nephropathy in the early stage, often do not have typical symptoms. In particular, glomerulosclerosis may exist shortly after diabetes is developed, and there is basically no initial manifestation, and it will gradually manifest itself in about 10 years.
This symptom is usually initially proteinuria, and then manifests as a change in renal function, an increase in the number of nocturia, a large amount of proteinuria, and eventually develops into a nephrotic syndrome. Diabetics with nephrotic syndrome may develop chronic renal failure within 4 years;
3, control blood sugar: after understanding diabetic nephropathy, patients have to do is to actively prevent. We should clearly understand that the basis for the emergence of diabetic nephropathy is based on long-term disease and poor blood sugar control.
Therefore, to prevent diabetic nephropathy, the first thing patients have to do is to control the growth of blood sugar. Whether it is type 1 or type 2 diabetes, after the diagnosis of the disease, they should begin to cooperate with the doctor to choose drug treatment, and cooperate with changes in lifestyle and diet, and regularly test blood glucose;
4. Control blood pressure: Clinically available data show that hypertension is a common complication of diabetes and one of the important factors leading to the emergence and aggravation of diabetic nephropathy.
Therefore, diabetics should maintain a light diet, a stable state of mind, and regularly measure blood sugar and blood pressure. Diabetic patients with hypertension should be treated with relevant antihypertensive drugs to maintain blood pressure within the normal range.
In addition to doing the above points, it is also necessary to regularly check kidney function. As mentioned above, some people with diabetes may have glomerular sclerosis shortly after the onset of the disease.
Therefore, patients should have regular tests for renal function, which is the best way to detect in time, diagnose early, and reverse.