How to Care for the Kidney-Shut Your Mouth

As the saying goes, the disease enters from the mouth, and the kidney, as an important organ of human metabolism, is also vulnerable to toxic and harmful substances that are eaten. Every year, many people can't control their mouths, leading to acute or chronic renal function damage, and even severe cases develop uremia, which requires dialysis treatment. Here are some common foods and drugs that hurt the kidney.

Fish gall

Folk legend has it that fish gall is a treasure, which has the effects of "clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying" and even has the saying of "strengthening yang". Therefore, many ordinary people just listen to the neighbor next door saying that they can cure diseases, so they are soft-hearted, close their eyes and eat raw fish gall. There is nothing to say about this courage, but people are often sent to the emergency department before they are well. The most common fish gall poisoning in clinic is the fish gall of grass carp. The bigger the fish, the greater the toxicity of fish gall. Cyprinol sulfate in fish bile is the main component of poisoning, which can cause acute renal function damage, often manifested as nausea, vomiting, decreased urine output and so on. Carp alcohol sulfate can't be removed by cooking, and it won't decompose at high temperature, so only by not eating fish gall can you avoid poisoning. Next time, if someone recommends eating fish gall to cure something, don't try your best.

herbal medicine

Clinically, patients often encounter cases where they hear that a certain herb can cure diseases and go up the mountain to collect herbs, decoct and take them uniformly, resulting in impaired renal function. Traditional Chinese medicine is the treasure of our country, but some traditional Chinese medicines contain ingredients that cause kidney damage. If taken blindly, the result may be counterproductive. Common Chinese medicines or proprietary Chinese medicines containing aristolochic acid, such as Akebia manshuriensis, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae and Radix Aristolochiae. Traditional Chinese medicine or Chinese patent medicine containing heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic and lead, such as cinnabar, realgar and arsenolite. If you really need to take these drugs, you should take them under the guidance of a regular Chinese medicine doctor and strictly control the dosage and course of treatment. Non-professionals should try not to collect herbs in the wild and decoct them themselves. Even if this herb is really effective, it may cause kidney damage for several reasons: first, they don't know the dosage and course of treatment, second, they don't know the processing technology, and third, they may mistake the plant.

obesity drug

Speaking of losing weight, young girls may be more interested, and all kinds of diet pills sell well on various sales platforms. I once met a little girl who bought an imported diet pill online from an X company. After eating for a few days, she developed jaundice and oliguria, which was already acute liver and kidney failure. Later, the little girl lived in the intensive care unit for more than a month and was finally rescued. She is already very thin, but this is obviously not the kind of slimness she wants. Moreover, her kidney function can't be restored and she needs lifelong dialysis treatment. I also met people who came to the clinic to consult whether they could take some diet pills. At first glance, there are various ingredients, such as caffeine, diuretics and acetaminophen (the main ingredient of cold medicine), which may achieve the effect of "losing weight" to a certain extent, but there are great health risks. The correct way to lose weight is to keep your mouth shut and open your legs. If you can really do these two things, you can lose weight scientifically and safely. Don't believe in weight loss advertisements on various platforms. If you must buy it, you may wish to see a doctor first to see what ingredients are in the diet pills.

Now people's quality of life has improved, they are tired of eating ordinary vegetables and occasionally pick some wild vegetables for a change. But these games are a bit "wild inside" after all. A little carelessness may harm our fragile kidneys.

1. There may be pesticides and herbicides: with the spring breeze, wild vegetables are born and the weather is getting warmer. Now is the season for the growth of wild vegetables. Some wild vegetables, such as shepherd's purse and Malantou, can often be seen in Shan Ye. However, if you are not sure whether you have used pesticides or herbicides, it is not recommended to eat wild vegetables on the roadside and in the mountains. In particular, some wild vegetables on the edge of vegetable fields and orchards are probably accidentally sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Once taken by mistake, it is easy to be poisoned, causing acute kidney injury and even life-threatening.

2. Some wild vegetables themselves can cause kidney damage, such as purslane. Portulaca oleracea is a common wild vegetable in China, which is called longevity vegetable. However, purslane is rich in oxalic acid, which can lead to kidney crystallization, block renal tubules and cause acute renal function damage. I have met several such patients in clinic. If you really want to taste the taste of purslane, I suggest you blanch it with water, dissolve oxalic acid in water, scoop it up, and then pour it out before cooking. Similar foods rich in oxalic acid include amaranth and spinach. Their oxalic acid content is not as high as that of purslane. Although it will not cause acute kidney injury, it is recommended to blanch it before cooking.

It will be the rainy season in Jiangnan in a few months, and the humid environment provides an excellent growth environment for mushrooms. It is also in this season that the high incidence of mushroom poisoning will be ushered in. The main reason of mushroom poisoning is that poisonous mushrooms are mistaken for non-toxic mushrooms, and it is difficult for non-professionals to judge whether mushrooms are poisonous by experience. Maybe I didn't eat anything last year, but I was poisoned when I went to the same mountain to pick mushrooms with similar shapes this year. I also met an old man who knew that mushrooms were poisonous, but he couldn't resist the temptation of fresh beauty. He was poisoned many times by eating mushrooms. This is probably the unique charm of mushrooms. If you are interested, you can launch a special issue in the future to talk about the clinical manifestations of various mushroom poisoning and how to deal with some basic medical knowledge.

At the end of the article, I wish everyone a healthy kidney and stay away from disease and suffering!