Skin Conceals Secret of Diabetic Nephropathy

The kidney is an important metabolic organ, with similar functions as well as the skin. The skin covering the body, rich capillaries of the body's metabolism plays an important role. That is, once kidney problems will affect the circulatory system, and thus indirectly reflected in the human skin.

Therefore, patients with diabetes in addition to urine tests to check for kidney disease through outside, you can also check the condition of the skin to make appropriate judgments.

1, skin erythema
It is much like a burn blisters. Thin wall, which contains a transparent slurry bubble around without flush. Under normal circumstances erythema long finger, toe, hand, foot and the back or bottom edge, and may be in single or multiple appear within a few weeks to heal, but it will appear again.

2, pruritus
Some patients with diabetic nephropathy can occur in systemic or topical dry skin scaling, itchy. Women are more common in patients with vaginal itching again.

3, neck folliculitis
Can appear in the occipital neck prickly heat like pus inflammation, there is tenderness, and the development of boils or cellulitis. After the pus discharge can heal, but not long after will relapse.

4, sweating abnormalities
Sweating often occur for no reason, and common in the arm or torso, some patients or even sweating phenomenon.

5, foot gangrene
Patients can often occur foot pain, temperature sensation disappeared, dry and easy to crack, prone to ulcers, suppuration, necrosis, and difficult to heal, and even perforation foot disease.

6, xanthoma
In limb flexor side, hip, neck, knee, etc. The skin often see flocks of yellow-orange burst of small nodules or papules, and around to flush, and itching feeling.


In general, if diabetes patients skin symptoms described above, it is recommended to the hospital again for further detailed examination. Early detection of disease, prevention and control of the disease has a vital role. The experts in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital which is a professional Hospital with Chinese herbal medicines can reply your answer by email: kidneyhospitalabroad@hotmail.com.