Heavy Diarrhea Causes Acute Renal Failure

Recently, in the hospital bed of emergency treatment room lies a young man. His wife chokes to the doctor :’ how does diarrhea cause kidney failure?’

Fu is the family name of the man in bed, 30years old, company white-collar. Three days ago, he and his friends got together in a small tearoom. They had hot spot, ordering piles of food, mutton, meatballs, needle mushroom till 1 o’clock in the morning.

Mr. Fu told the doctor with a frown : He might have the unclean and uncooked food. When he had a stomachache, he went away. After he arrived at home, he couldn’t stop the diarrhea in the whole night. In the next morning, he also had the trots for a few times. Because he would go to work and it was troublesome to go to hospital, he asked his family for the antidiarrheic and then went to work. After two days with pills, families found Mr. Fu’s abnormal: in the three days, Mr. Fu seemed to get heavy sick, eyes deep concave, face paleaswax. Strangely, diarrhea was over but he couldn’t pee.

Based on Mr. Fu’s condition, the doctor knew fairly well that it was probably acute kidney failure caused by heavy diarrhea. As a result, his serum creatinine values ( standard of renal function) reached up to 900 mM/ L.

While how does diarrhea harm to kidney?

Expert explains, heavy diarrhea can cause fluid loss even severe dehydration. if there is no replenishing water in time, blood volume will be inadequate, and kidney will lack in blood, which will cause acute kidney failure.

Generally, in diarrhea-prone summer, there will be more patients with this condition. But in the end of the year, there are more opportunity for gluttony. So many people who have diarrhea will get chronic kidney failure.

Experts remind that, compared to healthy people, if people who have kidney foundation in origin get heavy diarrhea, they will easily appear acute kidney failure. While kidney diseases like chronic nephritis are normal among youngster. Young people always overestimate their body condition and underestimate the dangerousness of diarrhea. After early aggressive treatment, renal functions of most patients will return to normal. If the disease drags for a long time, it may developed into chronic kidney failure, which needs long-term dialysis.