Does uremia affect sexual desire

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A friend of mine said that his husband was very unfortunate. He got uremia, and there were many inconveniences in his normal life. And she also said that her husband's sexual desire decreased a lot. I went to the hospital with her to consult the doctor. Next, let me tell you something about whether uremia affects sexual desire.

Does uremia affect sexual desire

First: early symptoms can be insomnia, inattention, memory loss, etc. Uremia can have reaction apathy, delirium, convulsion, hallucination, coma, mental disorders. Peripheral neuropathy is also very common, sensory nerve disorder is more significant, the most common is the limb sock like distribution of sensory loss, can also have limb numbness, burning or pain, deep reflex dull or disappear, and can have neuromuscular excitability increase, such as muscle tremor, spasm, restless leg syndrome.

Second: when the patient has a lot of urine, and excessive water restriction, or complicated with vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, it is easy to lead to dehydration. In clinical practice, excessive volume load is more common, so uremic patients should pay attention to the appropriate control of water intake (in addition to drinking water, but also including soup, porridge, fruit and other water rich food), in the process of diagnosis and treatment should avoid excessive fluid infusion, in order to prevent the occurrence of heart failure and pulmonary edema.

Third: severe hyperkalemia (serum potassium > 6.5mmol/l) has certain risk and needs timely treatment and rescue (see the treatment of hyperkalemia). Sometimes hypokalemia may occur due to insufficient potassium intake, excessive gastrointestinal loss, application of potassium excreting diuretics and other factors. Hyperkalemia is more common in clinic, so uremic patients should strictly limit the intake of high potassium food, and should regularly review blood potassium.

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In general, uremia is a very serious kidney disease, patients as long as a disease will have a lot of clinical manifestations. For example, abnormal nerves, insomnia, dreams, memory will also decline. I don't have a good attitude towards life. Of course, my sexuality may also be affected.