Why Renal Failure Have Skin Itching

Skin itching is one major symptom and discomfort among kidney failure patients especially those that are on dialysis. Other more common problems caused by kidney failure include sleep problem, depression, bone problems, restless leg syndrome.

Skin itching can be caused by a variety of factors.

Dialysis

Dialysis can cause a series of complications and side effects and one of them is itching skin. This is because dialysis can cause the skin to produce less oil. Creams and some oil-based products can help in this case. Another reason is release of histamine due to allergies that dialysis patients might experience.

Dry skin

For end stage renal disease patients, their kidneys fail to clear metabolic wastes and excessive minerals such as calcium and phosphorus in the blood. As a result, the body will naturally remove liquid in the skin to the bloodstream to cope with too high mineral level. Skin dehydration will cause itching feeling which can be alleviated after being moisturized or rehydrated.

Histamine release

Histamine is a kind of protein which will be released by the body when there is foreign materials invading the body. The skin might feel itching as an allergic reactions to histamine release. On the other hand, histamine can cause less fluid in the blood vessels and this will worsen skin dehydration. In this cases, anti-histamine medicines might help achieve instant relief.

What are the Causes of Chronic Renal Failure

There are a variety of diseases and pathological conditions that can cause chronic renal failure. The following are the main causes.

glomerular diseases including IgA nephropathy, FSGS, diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephropathy, lupus nephritis, etc.

chronic pyelonephritis, uric acid nephropathy, obstructive nephropathy as well as kidney damages due to long term intake of certain drugs such as aristolochic acid nephropathy.

renal vascular diseases such as aneurysm, renal artery embolization, renal thrombus and renal arteriovenous fistula, etc.

hereditary kidney diseases such as polycystic kidney disease(PKD) and hereditary nephritis, etc.

Diabetic nephropathy and hypertensive arteriolosclerosis and in developing countries these two causes still follow primary glomerulonephritis. Ischemic nephropathy due to bilateral renal artery stenosis or occlusion is one important cause of chronic renal failure especially in elderly patients.

Top 7 Easily Neglected Symptoms in Chronic Renal Failure

1. A man will tend to feminine characteristics.Renal failure kidney can′t inactivated estrogen in the body,Many men will appear feminization symptoms, including breast development, hair sparse.

2. Nosebleeds: Renal failure cause the body′s blood coagulation function decline, patients often flow nosebleed.

3 .Anemia: Renal failure results in the decrease of erythropoietin, patients may produce the anemia symptoms such as fatigue.

4. Fracture: Renal failure lead to regulate calcium and phosphorus metabolism activity of vitamin D3, the patient easy to fracture.

5. Hypoglycemia: Renal failure kidney failing to effectively inactivated insulin, some had high blood sugar diabetes can appear the symptom of hypoglycemia.

6. Patients with heart failure, kidney failure when the toxin inside body and acidosis inhibits myocardial cell shrinkage and expansion ability can cause heart failure.

7 .Uremic encephalopathy: Patients with renal failure occurs due to the toxicity of the body is not able to clear, causing the central nervous system damage, triggering auditory hallucination, convulsions, seizures, aphasia and other symptoms.