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The main symptom of kidney disease is not feeling anything! That's right! Chronic kidney disease is treacherous and silent. You can have it and feel absolutely nothing.

When you start to feel something it is because the disease is advanced. That is, you have reached stage 5 of kidney disease which is the last stage when your kidneys are functioning less than 15%.

And to make the symptoms more difficult they are NOTHING specific to kidney disease. So if you do not know you have the disease it is very likely that your doctor will not diagnose your symptoms unless he asks for tests.

When the kidneys are functioning less than 15% they may have difficulty performing their function of straining the blood, that is, of cleaning the blood of the impurities that our metabolism produces. Failing to filter the blood well, these impurities accumulate and are retained in our body and function as toxins and can cause various symptoms that are collectively known as uremia.

Uremia is poisoning by urea and dozens of other toxins and such poisoning can affect various organs of the body such as:

Stomach: lack of appetite, nausea and vomiting more pronounced as soon as you wake up, altered sense of smell, altered taste with a metallic taste in your mouth (like sucking a coin), uremic breath (the same as urine-smelling breath), gastritis, peptic ulcers that can cause intestinal bleeding or even malnutrition.

It can affect the heart leading to uncontrolled blood pressure despite the use of drugs, pericarditis (which is an inflammation of the membrane that lines the heart) or even arrhythmias.

Accumulation of water in the lungs leading to shortness of breath, increased frequency of breathing.

Skin stretched and shiny because of swelling, itchy body.

Muscle cramps.

Descaling bones making them fragile, deformed and with fractures. Did you know that bones are the factory of blood cells? They are of 3 types: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Problem with red blood cells will cause anemia, problem with white blood cells will cause repeated infections, while problem with platelets will cause bleeding in different regions of the body.

It can also affect the brain causing discouragement, difficulty concentrating, disturbed sleep, restless legs while sleeping, hiccups that are slow to pass, convulsion or even coma. There are many symptoms, huh?

That is why uremia is considered a syndrome, that is, a set of signs and symptoms!

When kidney disease is chronic, these symptoms appear slowly so that the patient adapts and thinks everything is normal. They gradually lose energy and become less active, gradually lose their appetite and eat less and less. The symptoms are ignored by the patient but can be noticed by family members.

The curious thing is that many only realize that they were sick after starting some type of dialysis. Because dialysis does what the kidneys were not doing and thus cleans the blood of waste retained and many patients realize that what seemed to be normal is now better!