Respiratory and Digestive Problems of Chronic Kidney Failure Patients

Many Chronic Kidney Failure patients have respiratory and digestive problems. In severe cases, these problems may even significantly interrupt their daily activities and threaten their life.
Respiratory Problems of Chronic Kidney Failure Patients
Metabolic acidosis is a major cause of respiratory problem. It can cause deep and rapid breath and severely irregular hear beat and even coma. Metabolic acidosis is attributable to the imbalance of acid-base in body. In Renal Failure, impaired kidneys lose the normal regulatory function and the alcaline substances can not neutralize the acid, thus leading to the problem.
Blood collection in lung is also attributable factors for respiratory problems in Chronic Renal Failure. As the impaired kidneys are not function normally to filter extra fluid from body, it will build up in body. In severe case, the lung and even blood vessels at all levels may be filled with fluid. Thus, it can cause difficult and short breath, etc.
Digestive Problem in Chronic Renal Failure
Digestive problems in Chronic Renal Failure mainly include nausea, vomiting, bleeding, etc. Usually, these problems appear along with elevated BUN.
Usually, dialysis can relieve the mentioned problems, but it is not enough to manage all the complications of Chronic Renal Failure like skin itching, because dialysis only removes the macromolecular toxins like creatinine, BUN, but the remaining toxins like PTH, IL 6, etc still remain in body to do further damage to kidneys. Therefore, the patients' renal function still keep aggravating with dialysis going on.
Respiratory and digestive problems are related to impaired kidneys, the primary goal of the treatment should focus on rebuilding the kidney structure and reversing renal function.