Quit Smoking and Quit Drinking Alcohol so Important for Patients with Kidney Problems

Smoking is bad for health, and is fatal for patients with kidney problems. Tobacco has nicotine which has the effect of contracting blood vessels, reducing blood flow into the kidneys, leading to renal vascular sclerosis, and all of these will aggravates the renal ischemia and anoxia situation and makes it more difficult to control nephritic hypertension. Smoking damages the protective screen of respiratory , and makes it more vulnerable to infections. Respiratory infection is the most common reason of kidney inflammatory activity and renal aggravation. In addition, the due infection can also influence the effectiveness of medicines like hormone and immunosuppressant, thus makes the treating even more difficult. So, for patients with kidney problems, quit smoking is something of necessity.About Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy
We have already known that smoking do various harm to patients with kidney problems. Then why quit drinking alcohol is also recommended by doctors?
Alcohol has little direct impact on kidneys, but lead to many troubles with the liver. Damages to the liver make it more difficult to control dangerous factors of renal damages like hypertension, hyperlipemia, high uric acid and edema. these are some of the common accompanying factors of kidney disease. And the controlling of these due factors are important for the kidney disease treatment. Alcohol drinking will surely make it more difficult to control these dangerous factors which are often the main causation of renal diseases like Hypertension Nephropathy, High Uric Acid Nephropathy and other Nephropathies related with overweight.

In conclusion, quit smoking and quit drinking alcohol not only reduce dangerous factors that can easily lead to renal problems and renal disease aggravation, but also help with improving immunity of the whole body. And for patients with kidney problems, quit smoking and quit drinking alcohol is not something negotiable but something of necessity.