The Common Misdiagnoses of Renal Failure

Once someone's kidneys are seriously damaged, there will be some clinical symptoms occur, such as complications of digestive system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, Nerve-muscle system, respiratory system and so on. However, above-mentioned symptoms maybe not occur together, it varies from person to person. We can see that the symptoms of renal failure are similar with other kinds of diseases. That’s why renal failure is relatively easy to be misdiagnosed.
Here we will introduce and analyze some Common Misdiagnoses of Renal Failure, we hope it will be helpful for all the patients.
I When patients feel thirsty and urinate much during night, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as Diabetes Mellitus or hypertension;
II Many renal failure patients will suffer with nausea, vomiting and abdominal discomfort, which can be misdiagnosed as gastrointestinal diseases. It may cause further damage on kidneys when taking wrong medicines, especially some medicines with renal toxicity;
III As for some patients with history of high blood pressure, renal failure can also be misdiagnosed as hypertension;
IV Renal anemia, in china, the treatment method for people who have anemia is blood transfusion, because some doctors think that the main reason of anemia is undernutrition. However, anemia can be caused by many diseases, and Renal anemia is a common manifestation of chronic renal failure. It is also an important dangerous factor that promotes the progressing of chronic renal failure. So if the doctor do not consider about the other symptoms of patients or analyze patients’ illness condition carefully, renal anemia maybe easily misdiagnosed.
The above-mentioned are some common misdiagnoses of kidney, when diagnosing, general doctors should also consider about the kidney disease if there are multi-symptoms. Otherwise, the valuable treatment time for renal failure patients will be missed.
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