How does urea acid affect kidney? What’s the relationship between urea acid
and kidney damage? Kidney plays a main leading role in the metabolism of urea
acid. Every day, about two thirds of urea acid produced is secreted through
kidney. The left one third is degraded in stomach and guts by bacteria. So we
can see that kidney is the main organ to discharge urea acid. If the out amount
of urea acid is more than 600 to 700 ml, the urine is called high urea acid
urine. When there is something wrong with the kidney, kidney will fail to
secrete urea acid, which lead to high urea acid in blood also called
hyperuricemia. Gout is a kind of disease which is caused by too high urea acid
in blood. Extra urea acid can be caused by either the increased combination of
urea acid or the decreased secretion of urea acid into urine. When kidney fails,
there will be less urea acid into guts, so the decreased secretion of urea acid
is also a main factor of high urea acid in blood.
On the other hand, kidney is also an organ which can be affected by high
blood urea acid, which is due to the specific structure and function of kidney.
The solubility of urea acid is low. Every day, a lot of acid metabolic products
come into being. Kidney is the main organ of secreting this. In renal tubules,
due to the absorption of water, the level of urea acid is high. All these
factors can make urea acid into crystals thus causing urea acid kidney disease
or worsen the primary chronic kidney disease.
