Renal Osteodystrophy — Bone Disease in Kidney Failure:Cause and Symptoms

Kidney has the function of removing the wastes out of body. With these function, kidney can keep the materials in body in balance, thus people can have a healthy life. But when people are attacked by kidney failure, they will suffer a lot of complications, one of them is bone disease which also can be called osteodystrophy.

Cause of bone disease in kidney failure

1. Calcium is the most plentiful mineral in the body that is essential for building new bone cells and keeping existing bones strong. If calcium levels in your blood become too low due to kidney failure, your parathyroid glands (four small glands in your neck) release a hormone called parathyroid hormone (PTH). This hormone regulates calcium levels in your blood. If blood calcium levels are too low, the PTH hormone will begin removing calcium from your bones to get calcium blood levels back to normal. Over months and years, as calcium is stripped from the bones, this can make the bones weak, so their texture becomes more like a piece of chalk than of a sturdy bone.

2. when your kidneys don’t work, phosphorus builds up in your blood. A high blood phosphorus level causes your body to pull calcium from your bones in an attempt to balance all the body’s minerals. When calcium is being pulled from your bones, your bones begin to break down and lose the ability to provide structural support.

3. Healthy kidneys activate vitamin D. The activated form of vitamin D is called calcitriol. Calcitriol helps the body absorb calcium. Working together, calcitriol helps maintain normal parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels, and they carefully balance calcium in your system. When kidneys fail, they stop converting inactive vitamin D to calcitriol. The result is your body is unable to absorb calcium from food, so it“borrows” the calcium it needs from the greatest calcium storage depot — your bones.

Treatment for bone disease in kidney failure


Traditional Chinese Medicine has magic effect in treating kidney failure. The active substances in Chinese medicines can expend the blood vessel and dissolve blood stasis, improving the condition of kidney hypoxic-ischemic. At the same time, it also can block the ultra immune response and remove the toxins in blood out of body. With the normal blood in kidney, the kidney damage can be stopped. With the improve of kidney function, the osteodystrophy — bone disease in Kidney Failure will turn better. If you are interested in our therapy, you can send email to kidneyfigh@hotmail.com.