Can I Smoke with IgA Nephropathy

IgA Kidney Disease patients can not smoke as smoking is an important inducement of kidney damages. Therefore, if someone with IgA Kidney Disease (IgA Nephropathy) has developed the habit of smoking, he need to kick this habit immediately. Also, if he found it is hard for him to give up smoking, he can ask his doctors, family members and friends for help.
As a matter of fact, since 2003, a substantial number of clinical and experimental data regarding the adverse renal effects of smoking have been published. Although many IgA Kidney Disease patients know that smoking is the number one preventable death in most countries, they do not take it seriously as they do not know how does smoking affect their life.
And as one of the dominant cause of death for people, smoking affect people's immune system seriously. Because of strong immune system, our immunity is powerful to against varies diseases. However, under the effects of smoking, we are very likely to suffer from immune dysfunction. IgA Kidney Disease is a autoimmune disease and it occurs due to abnormal immune system. Hence, for IgA Kidney Disease patients, they need to adjust their immune system and increase their immunity, at least protect their present immune system. Smoking damage their immune system, so they need to avoid smoking; otherwise, the possibility that they suffer from cardiovascular disease will be increased greatly.
Actually, smoking not only affects our immune system, as well as many our other internal organs like respiratory tract, digestive tract, brain, heart and lung. Smoking can cause so many life-threatening diseases. Since smoking means so much, IgA Kidney Disease patients should and must give up smoking and also, to live more healthily, they need to even avoid having too much contact with smokers because they can be affected by second hand smoking.
Warmth warning: smoking not only push IgA Kidney Disease patients into a more dangerous condition, they can also cause so many other fatal diseases such as Cancer and Leukemia. Hence, please keep being far away from smoking if your cherish your life as well as your family members' life.
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