It is common that people with uremia usually have anorexia, no matter how 
great appetite they have before. Many people feel puzzled about this, then, why 
do people with uremia have this symptom?
Actually, anorexia can be caused bay many reasons such as decreased 
gastrointestinal motility, dysfunction of gastrointestinal tract and poor test 
of foods. Then, what are the causes of anorexia for patients with uremia?
First of all, dysfunction of gastrointestinal tract is one of the reasons for 
patients with uremia to have poor appetite. We all know patients with uremia 
have decreased glomerular filtration rate, which means their kidneys can not 
help them to remove waste products smoothly. Among these waste products, some of 
them are poisonous and due to the retention of these toxic substances in their 
body, damages in other organs such as gastrointestinal tract will appear. As a 
result, dysfunction of gastrointestinal tract will appear.
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Meanwhile, due to the 
accumulation of waste products in their body, decreased gastrointestinal 
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Moreover, dialysis can also affect patients’ appetite in different degree. It 
is well known that our kidneys can help us remove metabolism from our body. 
However, for patients with uremia, their kidneys have lost almost all their 
function, so they usually have to do dialysis to keep them live a normal life. 
Usually, during dialysis or after undergoing dialysis, patients’ cardiovascular Immunotherapy will become unstable, which have a bad influence on patients’ 
digestive tract. As a result, symptoms such as nausea and vomit appear, leading 
to poor appetite.
Poor appetite is common in our daily life and it has a direct relationship 
with the intake of protein or other nutrient substances. Therefore, we should 
change this situation quickly by cooking different foods or doing some exercises 
which may improve our appetite. For patients with uremia, even if they do not 
like eating, they should try to ingest enough nutrient substances, so as to meet 
the demand of their body.
