Chronic kidney disease (CKD), or chronic renal failure as it is alsoknown, is a growing burden for many Vietnamese families.
Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung of Bach Mai Hospital's Artificial KidneyDepartment, said that more than 8,000 new cases were reported each year.
The number of patients nationwide currently standsat 6.73 percent of the population or about 6 million people, of whom,about 800,000 patients (0.09 percent of the national population) are atstage five (final stage).
This means that they needrenal replacement therapy through blood filtration (haemodialysis) or akidney transplant to stay alive.
But, Dung said,only 10 percent of stage-five patients could afford haemodialysis whilethe rest had to face a grim future.
Meanwhile, areport by the Department of Health Examination under the Ministry ofHealth, said all the centres that did blood filtration were overloadedand could not handle all the work.
Dr. Vu Le Chuyenof Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said that most CKD patientswere not aware that they suffered from CKD until 90 percent of thekidney function was lost.
This is because adeficiency of blood, caused by CKD, occurred slowly, thus goingunnoticed, Chuyen said, adding that the more critical the shortage, themore serious the disease.
This was the reason theHealth Information and Education Centre under the HCM City HealthDepartment held a seminar Understanding the deficiency of blood inpatients last Thursday.
The seminar was anopportunity for CKD doctors to educate the general public about CKD aswell as how to detect the disease at early stages and to keep it fromgetting worse.
Following are the symptoms doctors say might appear at early stages of CKD:
Appetite loss, general ill feeling and fatigue, headaches, itching(pruritus) and dry skin, nausea and weight loss without trying.
And if kidney function deteriorates, patients may develop the following symptoms:
Abnormally dark or light skin, bone pain, drowsiness or problemsconcentrating or thinking, numbness or swelling in the hands and feet,muscle twitching or cramps, breath odour, easy bruising or blood in thestool, excessive thirst, frequent hiccups, problems with sexualfunction, menstrual periods stop (amenorrhoea), shortness of breath,sleep problems, vomiting - often in the morning.-VNA
Dr. Nguyen Huu Dung of Bach Mai Hospital's Artificial KidneyDepartment, said that more than 8,000 new cases were reported each year.
The number of patients nationwide currently standsat 6.73 percent of the population or about 6 million people, of whom,about 800,000 patients (0.09 percent of the national population) are atstage five (final stage).
This means that they needrenal replacement therapy through blood filtration (haemodialysis) or akidney transplant to stay alive.
But, Dung said,only 10 percent of stage-five patients could afford haemodialysis whilethe rest had to face a grim future.
Meanwhile, areport by the Department of Health Examination under the Ministry ofHealth, said all the centres that did blood filtration were overloadedand could not handle all the work.
Dr. Vu Le Chuyenof Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said that most CKD patientswere not aware that they suffered from CKD until 90 percent of thekidney function was lost.
This is because adeficiency of blood, caused by CKD, occurred slowly, thus goingunnoticed, Chuyen said, adding that the more critical the shortage, themore serious the disease.
This was the reason theHealth Information and Education Centre under the HCM City HealthDepartment held a seminar Understanding the deficiency of blood inpatients last Thursday.
The seminar was anopportunity for CKD doctors to educate the general public about CKD aswell as how to detect the disease at early stages and to keep it fromgetting worse.
Following are the symptoms doctors say might appear at early stages of CKD:
Appetite loss, general ill feeling and fatigue, headaches, itching(pruritus) and dry skin, nausea and weight loss without trying.
And if kidney function deteriorates, patients may develop the following symptoms:
Abnormally dark or light skin, bone pain, drowsiness or problemsconcentrating or thinking, numbness or swelling in the hands and feet,muscle twitching or cramps, breath odour, easy bruising or blood in thestool, excessive thirst, frequent hiccups, problems with sexualfunction, menstrual periods stop (amenorrhoea), shortness of breath,sleep problems, vomiting - often in the morning.-VNA
