Self-medication, using antibiotics and anti-inflammatories, can lead to chronic kidney failure, due to drug toxicity, warned yesterday, Tuesday, in Luanda, the president of the College of Nephrology of the Order of Doctors of Angola, José Malanda.
Speaking to ANGOP, within the framework of World Kidney Day, which is celebrated on Thursday, he said that there are medicines that are toxic to the kidney and, if the dosage is not well calculated, it can affect the organ. progressive loss of the kidneys’ ability to filter blood, which leads patients to hemodialysis.
According to José Malanda, there are a large number of people who are in the habit of self-medicating and some of these drugs are purchased in informal markets with poor quality due to poor conservation.
On the other hand, the specialist also drew attention to the excessive consumption of natural or industrialized tea, remembering that teas do not replace the consumption of water.
“There are people who carry large quantities of teas to drink throughout the day and many of them are diuretics that can dry out the body too much, leading to dehydration,” he said.
He asserted that the kidney is an organ that lacks sufficient water to circulate and, in the event of a shortage, it blocks, causing serious problems in its functioning.
The kidneys are fundamental in the functioning of the body. They filter the blood and help eliminate toxins from the body. The country controls more than 14 Hemodialysis Centers.
From this perspective, it has the capacity to carry out more than 8 thousand hemodialysis sessions per week, a procedure that did not happen in past years, when hospitalized patients waited for a place in dialysis services.
The Ministry of Health has been working on the aspect of prevention, which allows for early diagnosis of patients suffering from kidney disease, the response to which is limited to the construction of several hemodialysis centers in all provinces.
