What causes anemia in kidney failure?
Your kidneys make the hormone erythropoietin (EPO). EPO tells your bone marrow to make red blood cells. When your kidneys aren’t working well, they cannot make enough EPO. Without enough EPO, your body cannot make enough red blood cells.
besides, iron deficiency is another cause of anemia in kidney failure.
Your body needs iron and EPO to help your bone marrow make red blood cells. When you breathe, your body keeps the oxygen from the air you inhale. Your red blood cells take that oxygen throughout your body, through your bloodstream, to give you energy and help your organs, bones and muscles work. When you have anemia, there are not enough cells in your blood to carry the oxygen. This can make you feel weak and tired.
Iron is a nutrient that comes from your food. When you don’t have enough iron in your blood, your body cannot make enough red blood cells. Some examples of foods that are high in iron are:
Meats
Beans
Green, leafy vegetables
Dried fruits, such as raisins, prunes, and dried apricots.
what is the treatment of anemia in kidney failure?
Anemia that is caused by having too little EPO can be treated with a type of medicine called an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA). The ESA tells your bone marrow to make more red blood cells.
Anemia that is caused by having too little iron in your body can be treated by taking iron supplements. You can take iron supplement pills or have a shot to add iron directly into your bloodstream. If you are on dialysis, you can also get the iron you need with a medicine that is given through your vascular access, during your dialysis session. This type of iron supplement can also help your ESA medicine work better.
From above, we got the main cause of anemia in kidney failure, so we need to get treatment that can repair damaged glomeruli and restore the kidney function, and the anemia can be cured after the treatment.
In our hospital, we use the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to remedy kidney failure, and the featured treatment is Four-One Treatment. It includes four main therapies, Foot Bath Therapy, Oral Chinese Medicine Therapy, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Maikang Mixture.
These therapies will be used based on your own case, and the systemic Chinese treatment has following function.
- Dilate blood vessels and improve your blood circulation
- Remove toxins and wastes out and purify blood
- Increase the blood volume into kidneys and bring more nutrition and oxygen, this can stimulate the inherent renal cells and repair your damaged glomeruli and other kidney tissues
Through systemic treatment, it can help improve your kidney function effectively, and the anemia can be controlled from root. For kidney failure patients, if you want to control some of your symptoms or complications, you need first get the basic cause, then you can get the effective treatment and control the symptoms or complications fundamentally.
