6 bad drug habits that will destroy your kidneys
The whole treatment process of nephropathy requires the use of various drugs, whether unilateral treatment of nephropathy or prevention and treatment of various complications, such as anemia, hypertension, cardiac insufficiency, and malnutrition, long-term application of multiple drugs is often required. Kidney is an important organ for drug metabolism and excretion in the body. When renal function is damaged, it is easy to cause drug accumulation in the body. If you don't change your wrong thinking, don't get rid of wrong drug habits, and don't pay attention to the contraindications of drug use, not only will the medicine be taken for nothing, but it will also increase many adverse reactions, further damage the kidneys, and increase unnecessary drug expenses. Therefore, our medication must follow two principles: less and more refined, individualized medication.
Vice 1, unauthorized use of antibiotics. For example, common neomycin, gentamicin, amikacin, tobramycin, streptomycin and some avant-garde, polymyxin, vancomycin, amphotericin, sulfonamides, Tetracyclines, etc., some drugs may cause allergy and damage the kidney, such as: new penicillin can cause acute allergic interstitial nephritis, manifested as fever, rash, eosinophilia, oliguria and renal dysfunction. There are also commonly used cold medicines and painkillers, which directly have toxic effects on renal tubules, and sometimes cause allergic reactions in renal tissue. Therefore, patients with renal disease should be cautious when using such drugs.
Vice 2. Blindly believe in remedies. Most of the patients who seek home remedies are eager to seek success and are bewitched by the "magic curative effect". Folk remedies may come from the accumulation of experience and spread within the family, but the curative effect will vary depending on the season, region and the physical condition of each person; it may also be deceived under the guise of "home remedies", patients and friends must not use it Test medicine. I have seen many patients with kidney disease who misbelieve in home remedies and cause their disease to worsen. Not only are they ineffective in treating kidney disease, but some people have accelerated kidney failure due to ingestion of drugs with unknown pharmacology.
Bad habit 3. Excessive medication. Some patients hold the erroneous view of "more flavors, more dosage, more money, and better curative effect". In clinical practice, patients with kidney disease are often in a hurry to cure the disease. After the doctor prescribes western medicine, they buy traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese patent medicine at the pharmacy by themselves to eat together, or stop taking the medicine at random. This will not only fail to cure kidney disease, but will make the disease more complicated and difficult to treat.
Vice 4. Feel free to use traditional Chinese medicine preparations or herbal decoctions. We have been following the "integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine" in the treatment of kidney disease, and traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in the treatment of kidney disease and the aftercare. But the premise is that the medicine is prescribed by a nephrologist in a regular hospital to understand the pathology. Some traditional Chinese medicines contain high levels of heavy metals, especially Chinese herbal medicines such as Guanmutong, cinnabar, realgar, fish gall, centipede, and Tripterygium wilfordii. Gongniuhuang Wan should also be banned. The risk of uremia will be greatly increased if the consequences of inadvertent use are unimaginable.
Vice 5, just take medicine, do not pay attention to other taboos. For example, people with kidneys often use antihypertensive drugs such as Puli and sartan. If they take cold medicines, pain relievers, etc. widely containing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, creatinine will rise; Drink water to ensure that the kidneys should have enough blood flow without damaging the kidneys; sartan drugs can lead to increased blood potassium; patients are also required to eat a low-salt diet, and continuous high-salt diets lead to the accumulation of sodium in the body, which will offset some of the drugs It is not conducive to the stability of blood pressure and proteinuria levels.
There are also drugs such as cyclosporine and tacrolimus, which are also affected by diet. You cannot eat grapefruit before and after taking the medicine, otherwise the efficacy of the medicine will be reduced. Before taking the medicine, it is necessary to understand the contraindications of the medicine, in order to exert the effect of the medicine and minimize the damage to the kidneys.
Bad habit 6. If you don't take medicine on time, eat it when you think of it. Taking the medicine is related to the biological rhythm of the human body. To maximize the effect of the medicine and reduce the toxic and side effects, it is best to take it strictly according to the time:
Such as glucocorticoids: prednisone, prednisolone, etc., antihypertensive drugs: amlodipine, enalapril, losartan, valsartan, etc., diuretics: furosemide (furosemide), spironolactone ( Spironolactone), etc. are suitable for taking at 7-8 in the morning;
Such as lipid-lowering drugs: lovastatin, simvastatin, etc., sleeping pills: diazepam, etc., stomach drugs: cimetidine, famotidine, omeprazole, take 15-30 minutes before going to bed at night.
It is not difficult to get rid of 6 bad habits, take medicine scientifically, regular treatment, self-management, self-discipline, kidney disease treatment is not difficult.