The symptoms of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are not obvious and also do not
have any unique characteristics. Therefore, the only about 20% of patients can
receive treatment in early time. In most causes, their renal function has been
seriously damaged when they visit a doctor for the first time and even has
developed into End Stage Renal Failure. Therefore, early discovering of Chronic
Kidney Disease (CKD) is very important for all of us. Early Kidney Disease often
has the following symptoms.
1. Edema in eyelids and low limbs
Once the patients have renal damage, their kidneys can not adjust the water
and electrolyte balance, which will cause retention of water and sodium in their
bodies thus causing edema. It often appears in their eyelids and low limbs,
especially in the morning.
2. Back pain
Some patients with kidney disease usually have back pain, which is caused by
bleeding in kidneys, stretching of renal capsule by edema or oppression to
kidney tissues caused by Renal Cysts and so on.
Therefore, if you have back pain for too long without clear reason, you may
be affected by kidney problem.
3. High blood pressure
High blood pressure and kidney disease is related to each other closely. High
blood pressure can cause and aggravate kidney disease. In return, kidney disease
also can cause high blood pressure. Therefore, the patients with long history of
high blood pressure should go to do urine routine test and urine albumin
excretion rate regularly. Moreover, all patients with kidney disease should
monitor blood pressure per day.
4. Urine output volume and its color
If the urine become red-colored or has a mass of foam or the urine output
increases at night, these are usually the signs of early kidney disease.
5. Increased creatinin level
If the creatinine level is higher than the normal level, it proves that your
kidney has been damaged seriously.
If you have the above symptoms, you should go to see a nephrologist at once,
those are very likely the early signal of kidney disease.