Chronic renal failure is a serious health hazard of the disease, but also damages the whole body system. Regardless of the treatment period or after treatment, to have significant effect on sexual life.
Decreased sexual function caused by chronic renal failure and weakened by the relevant factors are: ① physiological dysfunction: patients with chronic renal failure often have anemia, hypertension, elevated creatinine and urea from nausea, vomiting, poor cardiac function, These factors can cause sexual dysfunction. ② hormone metabolic disorder: women serious renal insufficiency, and often inadequate performance of estrogen symptoms, such as amenorrhea, on a small, infertility, breast atrophy, atrophic vaginitis, vaginal lubrication of the decline; male patients with androgen levels were significantly Decline, equivalent to only normal 1 / 2. Some patients hypothyroidism, showing the lower sexual desire and impotence. ③ of factors: uremia toxic substances because of the impact caused the nervous system dysfunction and degeneration, nerve conduction velocity and less regulation nerve dysfunction. Changes in the nervous system spread to pelvic autonomic nervous, so there sexual dysfunction. ④ associated with the disease and drug factors: lead to chronic renal failure of certain diseases, its impact on sexual function and kidney damage itself has nothing to do, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and so on. But with the incidence of treatment, and some can affect sexual function, antihypertensive agents sometimes three to four kinds of combination, often inhibit sexual desire, leading to impotence. ⑤ psychological factors: uremia is a serious life-threatening diseases, the patient because of depression, depression, anxiety, fear, and a heavy economic burden, leading to decreased sexual desire and sexual dysfunction; ⑥ traditional concept of the impact: Lord of the renal , Sex life will affect kidney, in people's lives has become a concept, so some patients self-ban on sexual life.
Sex life obstacles patients with chronic renal failure, regardless of renal insufficiency in the period, the period of dialysis or kidney transplantation, their sexual quality of life are not satisfactory. With the illness before, compared to 90 percent of the male patients and 80 percent of female patients decreased sexual desire in 80 percent of the male patients can not erect penis erection or maintain an erection can not be state. Male patients of the ability to control ejaculation significantly decreased, early ejaculation time, the feelings of poor self-climax. Female patients about 3 / 4 to arouse sexual excitement, the great majority of female patients have secondary, for the performance of the upsurge in the frequency or intensity decreased significantly, or even completely disappeared.
Uremia patients using hemodialysis, a treatment that can remedy some of uremia, and continue with life, but we can not improve their sexual function. Successful kidney transplant, the female sex life satisfaction has improved, and some also easy to achieve orgasm. However, male patients sex life is not optimistic, there are still vast majority of impotence, erectile not determined, to maintain an erection difficulties and difficulties in controlling ejaculation. Therefore, patients with chronic renal failure sex life issues, mainly to provide advisory services, guidance patients thinking, increase their confidence in life, to patients with mental comfort and encouragement.
