Unwittingly infected: "Most patients are infected without even sensing it," states Dr. Li. Because patients often do not feel discomfort in the process of suffering kidney damage, they only discover that they are in the final stages of kidney disease--which is to say uremia--when they experience overt symptoms like fainting or vomiting.
「大部分的病人都是在不知不覺中得病的」，李醫師表示，由於腎臟在受損過程中，病人不會有不適的感覺，等到身體開始有不舒服的現象，如昏倒、嘔吐等症狀時，才發覺已到腎臟病末期，也就是尿毒症。