The Harm Which High Salt does to CKD

What is the harm that high salt does? Too much intake of salt can firstly lead to the increase of high blood pressure, which is also the greatest harm it does. Water can combine with sodium easily, which leads to the retention of water and sodium in the body. The blood vessels will swell, the wall of blood vessels will become thinner and the barrier of blood vessels increases. At the same time, the blood content increases, which gives more burden to the heart and kidney, thus leading to further difficulties of discharging sodium and increased high blood pressure.
When people are suffering from kidney disease, effective kidney nephrons decrease, the concentrating capacity of convoluted tubules declines. In addition, the discharge ability to sodium also decreases, which leads to the excessive content of sodium in blood. If kidneys are not capable of discharging the sodium in the blood, the organs such as kidney will be damaged, and what’s worse, such damage is hard to recover. In addition, if the sodium in the body is too high, it can also lead a large amount of potassium to discharge out together with urine. Potassium plays an important role in adjusting the contract of cardiac muscles. If a large amount of potassium is lost, the excitement of cardiac muscles will decrease, which may even lead to the severe weakness of cardiac muscles, and even lead to death to CKD.