A 65 -year -old man ate wild vegetables to treat prostatitis, but he had kidney damage

Wuhan Evening News July 28th. In order to treat prostatitis, Mr. Zhang in Hunan listened to the prescription and squeezed the purslane juice.

Mr. Zhang, 65, detected prostatitis during the medical examination this year. Because he suffered from chronic kidney disease, Mr. Zhang could not be used when treating prostatitis, and some drugs could not be used, and the treatment effect was not satisfactory. In early July, Mr. Zhang got a recipe for wild purslane to treat prostatitis from the patient. With the mentality of trying it, Mr. Zhang used the prescription provided by the patient to use a wall breaking machine to break the purslane and squeeze the juice.

One week later, Mr. Zhang felt painful abdomen, nausea, fatigue, and uncomfortable. He came to Tongji Hospital on July 12 to check the blood creatinine as high as 324 μmol/L (the normal value was 84 μmol/L). Associate Professor Zeng Rui, Department of Nephrology, Tongji Hospital immediately arranged for Mr. Zhang to be hospitalized, conducted a renal biopsy and other examinations, and found calcium oxalate crystals in his renal tube. After inquiring about the condition and living habits in detail, Associate Professor Zeng Rui confirmed that Mr. Zhang suffered from oxalic acid. Salt crystalline nephropathy, and the culprit is the prescription: purslane squeezing juice. After comprehensive treatment of hormone and kidney -care drugs, Mr. Zhang's kidney function was recovered and was discharged smoothly last week.

Associate Professor Zeng Rui said: "Some patients will use some recipes and secret recipes to resist disease. This mood can be understood, but the practice is inappropriate, even harmful. Clinically, we can often encounter eating remedies and unknown wild vegetables. Patients with acute renal failure caused by cooking methods. Mr. Zhang continued to drink a lot of purslane fresh squeezing juice before the onset, and purslane is a plant rich in oxalic acid. After a large number of oxalic acid enters the body, it is combined with calcium in the kidneys to form calcium oxalate crystals, which eventually leads to renal injuries and inflammatory reactions. "

With the improvement of living conditions, there are more and more "sharp eyes" on the people's dining table, and there are more and more foods that have not been seen before and have not heard. For the foods that we do not know Be cautious, especially patients with basic diseases should pay more attention to this. As for word of mouth, there is no remedy, it is not recommended that everyone try it rashly. In addition, remind everyone that even a partial test of some curative effects may be wrong, or the patient is sensitive to the medicine. If you want to try it, you can take it to the hospital to ask the doctor's safety. Eat well, eat cautiously, unknown Ono vegetables, and small recipes that do not know the source. We must not follow blindly to prevent illness from entering the mouth. (Changjiang Daily reporter Wang Kaining Correspondent Deng Guohuan Zuo Meiying)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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