What Does Frequent Urination At Night Indicate

When it comes to frequent urination at night, you think it is because you drink too much water at night. It is true for someone but not everyone. Does frequent urination at night indicate some illness conditions?

Actually frequent urination at night may indicate kidney problem. If you have frequent urination at night for a long time, you should take it seriously.

A patient has frequent urination at night for a long time but she does not take it seriously until her condition becomes serious. At this time, she feels dizzy and weak and there are also lots of bubbles in her urine. Under her husband’s accompany, she takes a thorough check up. Her medical reports show urine protein 1+ and creatinine 221umol/L. She is diagnosed with chronic interstitial nephritis and chronic kidney failure.

After two weeks of treatment, she feels a great improvement so she leaves the hospital. However, her condition relapses again and her frequent urination becomes worse at this time. Her medical reports show urine protein 2+ and creatinine level 486umol/L. After half year of treatment, her creatinine level increases to 550umol/L. Seeing her condition become worse and worse, she decides to have a try of Chinese medicine treatment.

Through internet searching, she finds our hospital-Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital and decides to come here. When she just comes to our hospital, her creatinine level is 541umol/L and uric acid level is 374umol/L. According to her specific condition, experts make a systematic Chinese medicine treatment plan for her. This treatment plan includes Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Medicated Bath, Medicated Full Bath Therapy, Medicinal Soup and Mai Kang Mixture and Steaming Therapy. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can make the active ingredients in Chinese medicines come into kidney lesion directly through shenshu acupoints. This can improve blood microcirculation. Besides, steaming therapy can also make Chinese medicines permeate into your body directly and dilate your whole body’s blood circulation.

This systematic Chinese medicine therapy aims to repair injured kidney tissues and improve renal function. After one week of treatment, her creatinine level is reduced to 483umol/L from 541umol/L. Half month later, creatinine level is reduced to 433umol/L and uric acid level is reduced to 334umol/L which is within the normal range. Besides, frequent urination at night is also relieved.

The treatment principle of our Chinese medicine treatment is to cleanse her blood, improve kidney internal environment and protect residual kidney function. This can provide a good environment for recovering renal function and lay a good foundation for the following treatment.