What Are The Reasons For High Level Of Blood Urea
Urea is a major end product of protein, which should be filtrated out by kidney. For patients with kidney disease, high urea level in blood is a common condition, and that can cause many health problems in patients’ body.
What are the reasons for high urea level in blood?
As a matter of fact, many factors can cause people to have high urea in their body. But for patients with kidney disease, it is more likely to be a dangerous sign.
For example, if people lose lots of fluid due to vomiting, diarrhea or sweating, their blood fluid will reduce, and they are very likely to have high urea level in blood. When people takes much foods that contain abundant protein, much urea will be produced and their urea level can also be higher than normal. Besides, factors like fever, burn, infection, bleeding in digestive tract, etc, can also cause patients to have high urea level in blood.
For patients with kidney disease, high urea in blood is a common condition, and that is mainly caused by kidney damage. Patients’ kidney disease can damage their kidney structure and cause low kidney function, which can lead to the metabolic wastes accumulating in their body.
As a result, high urea caused will be persistent, but high urea caused by other factors can recover to normal in a short time.
Is it dangerous for patients with kidney disease to have high urea?
As we have said, high urea in blood can cause many problems to patients’ health. Except for that, high urea is also a dangerous indicator of patient’s kidney function.
Kidney has strong metabolic ability and strong compensation, and half normal kidney function will be able to guarantee our body health. So, if patient with kidney disease has high urea in his blood which is caused by kidney damage, that means more than half normal kidney function has already been damaged. So, patient’s condition is very dangerous at that point.
Thereby, if patient’s find he has high urea and caused by his kidney disease, patient should take effective measures as soon as possible.
Kidney disease is very dangerous for our body health, and you can leave us a message if you need any help. We will do what we can to help you.
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