Chronic Renal Failure and Difficulty in Breathing

Why people with Chronic Renal Failure suffer from difficulty in breathing?
1. Once the kidneys are damaged, they will not be able to discharge fluid out of body normally as before. As a result, the fluid will build up in body and the increased blood volume will also collect in lungs thus making it difficult to breath.
2. As the kidneys can not filter out the potassium, the potassium level in blood will rise up. As a result, it will cause heart to beat irregularly and the patients are at high risk of developing congestive heart failure. Afterwards, heart failure can lead to difficulty in breathing.
3. Anemia is commonly seen in the patients with Chronic Renal Failure. Red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxgen to tissues and organs. For anemia, the number of red blood cells will decline thus resulting in difficulty in breathing.
The above are the main causes of difficult breathing for the patients with Chronic Renal Failure.

How to deal with it?

The patients should take some measures to relieve lung edema, heart failure and anemia by using diuretic and hemopoietin etc. However, these measures only can relieve the symptoms, but not their root causes.
The above problems are mainly attributable to renal function decline. Therefore, the primary goal in eliminating the difficulty in breathing is to restore the impaired kidneys.