The uremia is so horrible that it is important to recognize the early symptoms. It helps us to discover the uremia in the early stage; of course, it is also helpful to cure. However, there are different symptoms in the early stage, which symptoms need us to notice specially?
1. Digestive system symptoms
in the early stage, most patients have a poor appetite, they sometimes feel sick; but a few of them have the symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal distension and constipation. These are the early symptoms but is not the dyspepsia after the retention of the uremic toxins, yet, most people don’t realize it.
2. Swelling
general dropsy is also one of the early symptoms of uremia. The ankle and the eyelid edema will be puffy firstly; but after a rest it will disappear quickly. That is because kidney cannot clear away the redundant water from the body in time. If we don’t take measure, the patients will appear dropsy continually and bodily. When they realize, it is the time of uremia.
3. Tiredness
if the patients feel tired and exhausted easily, this phenomenon is seen as the most obvious symptom of the early uremia. But there are lots of reasons which can lead to feeling exhausted and after a rest it will feel better. So it can be neglected easily.
4. Anemia
sallow complexion caused by anemia is one of the early symptoms of uremia, too. It has a little change in clinical feature. So it is also easy to be neglected.
5. Elevated blood pressure
if the kidney is impaired, the body appears the excretion of water and sodium and cannot drain away them. Meanwhile, the impaired kidney can secrete some elevated blood pressure. Thus, it will appear varying degrees of high blood pressure in the early stage of uremia. It is noticed that high blood pressure and clotting mechanism can lead to nasal or gums bleeding easily.
Besides, early uremia symptoms are characterized by swelling eyelids after getting up. Lack of power may be a manifestation of early nephropathy. Some other symptoms also should be alerted, for example, the urine is red, more bubbles and has a long duration. Limbs face and body skin appears more red dots or erythema and joints in limbs feel sore.
