Symptoms Indicating Kidney Problem Caused by Hypertension

Hypertension is a common medical condition and causes no damages to our body in short term, so it is ignored easily. However, without effective control, long-term high blood pressure causes kidney problem directly, which may finally become the real cause of patient's death. Therefore, a timely treatment is essential for people with kidney problem caused by Hypertension to live a better and longer life. Well then for Hypertension patients, how do they know whether their high blood pressure has caused kidney problem?

Generally speaking, if Hypertension patients suffering the following symptoms, they need to alert and put into kidney problem into consideration.

1. Frequent urination

High blood pressure damages tiny blood vessels easily, so in our kidney, renal tubule is damaged more easily. Renal tubule has function to reabsorb nutrition and fluids and once it is damaged, renal reabsorption will be affected, as a consequence of which, much more urine is formed. Therefore, people with kidney problem caused by Hypertension always found they have increased urine at night.

2. Foamy urine

Foamy urine indicates there are too much protein in urine. In early stage of kidney disease caused by Hypertension, only a small amount of protein leak into urine. But with the progression of kidney disease, more and more protein get into urine and while they get out of patient's body with urine, foams are formed. Therefore, if Hypertension patients found they have lots of foams in their urine, they are very likely to have developed kidney problem.

3. Swelling/Edema

In cases of kidney problem caused by Hypertension, swelling, also can be called edema, always occurs as a consequence of long-term leakage of protein. As lots of protein leak with urine, colloid osmotic pressure in the blood decreases, as a result of which, fluids ooze into surrounding tissues and therefore causes swelling symptom.

4. Other symptoms

With the development of kidney problem, more and more symptoms will occur like poor concentration, poor appetite, fatigue, dizziness, poor immunity and nausea and so on.

All these symptoms can be directly caused by kidney damages, so once Hypertension patients found they have some or all these symptoms, they need to pay extra attention to their kidney. Lastly, Hypertension is one of the leading causes of kidney problem around this world and so many people have lost their life because of overlook for Hypertension. Therefore, keeping your blood pressure under control as much as possible, and we are sure you will definitely benefit from it.