If Kidney Failure patients experience diarrhea, they shouldn’t overlook this symptom, as it can induce many serious conditions, such as dehydration and electrolyte disturbance.

This symptom can be caused by the following cases:

Toxins accumulating

There are many toxins accumulating in intestinal tract, and bacteria are apt to breed in this environment. Once the bacteria in foods, like escherichia coli, salmonella and shigella, get into this environment, they will multiply quickly. Kidney failure patients may suffer enteritis and bacillary dysentery, which will cause stomachache, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting and fever.

Hypoproteinemia

Kidney failure patients with hypoproteinemia may suffer diarrhea, as protein in blood has the effect of maintaining osmotic pressure. For these patients, the osmotic pressure in blood is lower than that in enteric cavity, so fluids will move from blood to enteric cavity. When there is a lot of fluid accumulating in enteric cavity, this symptom will occur.

Hypoadrenocorticism

Kidney damage is followed by hypoadrenocorticism, which can cause decrease of gastric acid and pepsinum, so stomach will fail to play its function to digest food effectively. That’s another reason of diarrhea.

What can patients do if they suffer diarrhea?

Drink some juice

There are lots of water, glucose and electrolyte lost in defecation. Kidney failure patients are at the risk of dehydration and electrolyte disturbance. Some juice, like carrot juice, apple juice and watermelon juice, not only can supplement these substances but also can supply some nutrients, such as vitamins.

Take some light foods

In this condition, patients should choose some light foods, such as liquid food, to ease the burden of digestive system. When the symptom gets relieved, they can add rice, yoghourt and lettuce to their diets. These foods are easy to digest and supply some necessary nutrients to patients.

Take some treatments

Besides the treatments to diarrhea, patients also need to receive treatments to treat kidney damage, which the underlying cause of this symptom, or it will relapse easily. There are some effective treatments for this condition, such as Blood Pollution Therapy, Immunotherapy and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. If you want more information, email us renal-disease@hotmail.com.

At last, a piece of advice for kidney failure patients: they should figure out the exact reason of diarrhea before they take any treatments or medicines.