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Acute Renal Failure Symptoms

Acute Renal Failure: Symptoms


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1. Drowsiness along with confused mind, anxiousness and restlessness

The disease may cause symptoms like drowsiness and anxiety along with restlessness. The patient may also suffer from a confused state of mind. While standing up dizziness too may be experienced by the patient. Along with restlessness and anxiousness, the sufferer may also have irregular heart beats or pulse rate that may be too weak at times and too rapid at other times.

2. Shortness of breath

Many patients of acute renal failure often experience shortness of breath. This means that when the person is breathing he/she may feel that not enough or sufficient oxygen is entering the body. The patient might gasp for more oxygen or may start breathing faster. This situation arises when some of the fluid enters and collects in the lungs of the patient.

3. Fatigue and lethargy

Fatigue and lethargy also start perturbing a patient of acute renal failure. The person may feel tired and lethargic. There may be loss of energy and the patient may not feel or have the energy to perform the regular day-to-day tasks. Lethargy caused by acute renal failure is the effect of the toxic of waste products in the body on the brain of the patient. Fatigue, on the other hand, is caused due to anemia (caused by decreased life span of red blood cells due to toxin deposited in the blood), malnutrition, and loss of protein.

4. Pain in abdomen or back of the body

During acute renal failure, pain can occur in both back and front of the body ranging between waist to just below the rib cage. This pain is known as flank pain. This pain can be moderate to extremely intense. In certain cases, flank pain affects the movement of the patient too making it difficult for him/her to walk or sit. Since the urinary tract is obstructed during such a condition, it leads to flank pain on either or both sides of the body.

5. Nausea and vomiting

Feeling of nausea is a prominent sign of acute renal failure. Often, nausea is accompanied by vomiting too. Nausea, with or without vomiting, often leads to less or no interest in food intake. Thus, a person suffering from acute renal failure may lose his/her appetite and may not feel like eating. The body metabolism changes during acute renal failure, which leads to stimulation of bacteria in gastrointestinal tract and causes secretion of urea enzymes. This urea enzyme breaks down urine into amino acids that lead to strong stimulation of gastrointestinal tract. This, in turn, causes nausea and vomiting along with loss of appetite.

6. Body swelling

During acute renal failure the body of the patient swells up. The swelling primarily occurs in the legs and feet of the patient. When the kidneys are unable to remove the salt and water from the body, then the overload of that water and salt creates the swelling in the body. Basically, the retention of the fluid that the kidneys are supposed to release through urine, causes the body to swell up.

7. Little or no urine production

The strongest symptom of acute renal failure is the sudden decrease of urine while urinating. Urine production in the body may completely cease too in such a condition. Releasing waste products from the body through urine after filtering the blood is the main function of the kidneys. Therefore, when the kidneys are damaged or acute renal failure occurs we find nil or little urine production in the body of the patient.

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