Metallic Taste in Mouth May Indicate Kidney Failure
Metallic Taste in Mouth May Indicate Kidney Failure, Symptoms
Patients with Kidney Failure commonly experience a sore throat with a bad taste, which feels like urine or chemical fertilizer. It is often called bad breath simply. As it can occur in our daily life, we tend to attribute it to the problems of poor oral hygiene and think there no need to see a doctor or taking any urine test. Actually, any pathological damage has happened when its symptoms occur. Metallic taste in mouth may indicate Kidney Failure. Kidney owns the function of filtrating blood stream and forming urine. Although liver can also detoxify blood stream, it is the most metabolic wastes drain out that along with urine forming in kidneys. Nephrons are the functional units of kidneys. As kidney fails, the intrinsic cells mainly responsible for filtrating function begin to die and be replaced by fibrous tissues. Glomeruli filtration rate (GFR) decreases. GFR is used to evaluate the efficiency of kidney’s filtrating wastes from body. If it turns down to a certain degree, a lot of metabolic wastes will accumulate in the body. The tissues turn to get swellings, such as in feet, face, legs or hands.
The wastes deposited in body will be degraded by bacteria or other microbes. As we all know, vomitus will stink when it is under sunlight. The same goes to the wastes accumulating in body. Particularly, urea nitrogen from the metabolism of protein can not drain out and it is broke down by the bacteria with urease in intestinal tract, releasing ammonia. It will make your breath smelly. The ammonia can also harm or stimulate the oral mucosa and gastrointestinal villus, causing anabrosis or ulcer in gastrointestinal tract. In the course of anabrosis, some smelly gases including ammonia are released. In addition, patients with Kidney Failure usually have antiallergic agent, diuretics and hypotensor, which...... See all of contents:http://www.renalfailuresite.com/symptoms/600.html
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