Proper skin care for Chronic Kidney Disease is an important work to prevent
skin infection and bedsore or some other relative complications. Chronic Kidney
Disease patients can not expel toxin out of the body which is easy to cause
pruritus. Sometimes pruritus affects patients so seriously that make the
patients suffer from insomnia. Patients should avoid scratching the skin and
then prevent the occurrence of damaged skin and bacterial infection so as to
avoid aggravation of the disease.Chinese Herbal Medicine
People with skin itch can use calamine lotion which contains phenol to
relieve it. In addition people can choose one or two types of Chinese medicines
among these four types. The medicines are folium artemisiae argyi, radix
sophorae, cocklebur fruit and radix sileris. We boil each kind of medicine for
30 kilograms in hot water and patients can use the water to wash their body. Or
we can use radix sileris, folium artemisiae argyi each for 30 kilograms and
pepper, realgar each for 60 kilograms to boil and then wash the body.
Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy also can achieve the purpose of relieving
itch. We can choose acupoints such as Quchi (LI 11), ho ku, xue hai , zusanli
etc.Skin Itching and Kidney Disease Severe Fatigue With Stage 4 Kidney Failure Treatment Options for Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
The patients of Chronic Kidney Disease who is in the end-stage lie in bed and
bear pressure for a long–term, and then causing neurotrophy disorder and blood
circulation barrier. It causes constant soft tissues ischemia and malnutrition
which is easy to cause bedsore. So proper skin care is the key point to prevent
decubital occurrence. Patients should change their body posture and should
better turn their body over once for two or three hours. Patients should avoid
the motion of drag, pull and push so as to prevent to bruise skin. Patients’ bed
should keep smooth and tidy. The most important work is to keep skin clean and
dry.Hot Compress Therapy for Kidney Disease Acupuncture for Kidney Disease Foot Bath for Kidney Disease
In addition, Chronic Kidney Disease Patients should often use hot water to
take a sponge bath or scrub back and have partial massage so as to promote
partial blood circulation and prevent the occurrence of bedsore. If the Renal
Failure patients have occurred bedsore, the work of preventing and treating skin
infection seems to be more important. Patients can use infrared light
irradiation and floor lamp irradiation to dry the surface of wound, and then
promote blood circulation and keep the granulation tissue of the surface of
wound growing healthily. Remember to observe carefully and avoid scald.