2013年9月24日星期二

How to Reduce Protein in Urine with Kidney Disease


Many people believe that if there is no pain in the body, there is no disease at all. They nearly ignore the existence of diseases. It is extremely dangerous, because the kidney has lesions already. If kidney disease is left untreated, it will develop into more serious stage, even renal failure. So, how to reduce protein in urine with kidney disease?
1. A healthy lifestyle
Such as not smoking, not drinking alcohol; get plenty of sleep, maintain a certain amount of physical exercise and sunshine bath time; avoid high-fat, high sugar, high salt, and high greasy foods, etc. These foods can increase the burden of our kidneys, accelerate the decline of renal function and cause illness.
2. Actively treating the primary disease and protect the renal function
For nephropathy high-risk groups, right treatment for primary diseases is to use the drugs scientifically and rationally. Taking personalized treatment plan which aimed at individual genetic factors (detect DNA screening for drug sensitivity, etc.), physical and psychological conditions.
3. Healthy Diet
The patients should eat a well-balanced diet, especially foods rich in proteins (such as fish, shrimp, eggs and lean meat etc.) and fresh vegetables. It is important for reducing proteinuria by restricting the intake of protein, having low-salt diet, controlling extra water drinking, and quitting smoking etc.
4. Minerals Supplement
Because the patients’ permeability of glomerular basement membrane increase, lost not only a lot of protein in urine, but also some trace elements that bind to protein. It causes the deficiency of calcium, magnesium, zinc and iron in human body. So we shall be granted appropriate supplementation, like eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
5. Infection Prevention
Due to a large number of protein loss, lowered albuminuria patients’ immunity, often prone to infections. If the symptom once appears, it often can make the illness repeatedly. For a healthy person, cold doesn’t account much, but for a kidney disease patient, sometimes it can lead to very serious result.
All of the above is the introduction on how to reduce protein in urine with kidney disease; I hope these suggestions will be helpful.

2013年9月21日星期六

How Can I Know If I Have CKD


High-risk group of CKD including: people who have hypertension, hyperglycaemia and hyperlipemia; have a family history of CKD; kidney impairment caused by taking drugs; contact with heavy metals or organic solvents; smokers; women who get urinary tract infection repeatedly or men with prostatitis.
If you want an early detection of the disease, you should do as the following:
·Check the urine
Check the color urine: the normal urine is light yellow and it’s very clear. If the urine is white, has precipitate, and may have bubbles in it, this is called proteinuria. If the color of the urine is like meat washing water, this is called hematuria. The patients should pay fully attention to the proteinuria or hematuria, and make further examinations.
·Check the eyes and feet
If your eyes swelled when get up but are normal in the afternoon, but your feet begin to swell, this is typical symptoms of CKD.
·Hematuria Examination
Eye observation is only a preliminary judgment, but the test of urine and hematuria in the professional experiment is the accurate one. Urinalysis is one of the most common and convenient tests, it can help to know your kidney condition. Microalbuminuria test is one of the sensitive indexes in judging early renal damage. Creatinine, uric acid, and uric acid nitrogen are important reference data for evaluation of renal function. It makes correct estimate of renal function by blood and urine tests.
For most people, they should do blood and urine tests once a year, and measure blood pressure normally. But the CKD high-risk groups should examine twice a year. The CKD patients should examine once a month or more.
·B-scan ultrasonography
It can further diagnose the disease; check the kidney’s size and shape, or if there is uronephrosis, kidney stone or tumor lesions etc.
The CKD is curable, early diagnosis and treatment is very crucial. In addition, pay attention to diet and do not overeat. It is important not to increase the burden to kidney.

2013年9月19日星期四

Hypertension and Chronic Renal Failure


Renal failure is a pathological state of chronic kidney disease develops to the end stage that causes the loss of partial or all renal function. Hypertension is a most common chronic disease, and also a main risk element of cardo-cerebrovascular disease. Cerebral apoplexy, myocardial infarction, heart failure and chronic kidney disease is its complications.
With the constantly development of the course of hypertension, most of the patients with hypertension will complicated with kidney disease. Hypertension nephropathy is an advanced stage referring to damage to the kidney due to chronic high blood pressure. In other words, blood pressure of patients is unsatisfactorily controlled and is not cured correctly in time; it causes damage to renal vessels and the shortage of blood supply in the kidney. These causes renal dysfunction and hypertensive nephropathy.
The patients need to make changes in diet, including:
·Light breakfast. The patient can choose a cup of milk or soy milk, an egg, and a piece of bread.
·Low-salt and less oil diet. Do not add lots of seasoning.
·Be 70% full at dinner. The patient should have soups or porridges.
Early prevention of the disease:
The early prevention of hypertensive nephropathy is very important; here are some common preventive measures of the disease:
·If the patient has the symptoms of frequent urination at night, albuminuria or transient hematuresis, he/she should often check renal function, 24 hours urinary protein quantity, blood pressure and fundus (eye).
·If the age of the patient is at 40-50, or over 50, and his/her history of hypertension is 5-10 year or more, also be defined the increase of microalbuminuria, he/she should be high alert of the disease.
·Avoid the contact with heavy metals, poisonous substances and drugs that may damage the kidney.

2013年9月17日星期二

How Does Kidney Failure Cause High Blood Pressure


Renal hypertension is a secondary high blood pressure that caused by chronic kidney disease (CKD). More than 80% of CKD patients in late renal failure have high blood pressure. Do you know why and how does kidney failure cause high blood pressure?
We all know that the increase of pressure are of two reasons: one is (that) the substance that flow through vessels increases when the vessels invariant, the other is the vessels become narrower and the amount of substance the same as before. So we know the reason why kidney failure cause high blood pressure.
1 The capacity factors for high blood pressure: The function of renal artery is to filter the blood which flow through it, and then return these blood into the body’s circulation. When the renal parenchyma damaged, the capacity of filtering water and sodium weaken. When sodium intake exceeds the discharge capacity of the body, there will be retention of water and sodium. In this condition, the vessels don’t change and the amount of blood increased (water sodium retention), the pressure of blood increases. At the same time, the retention of water and sodium cause the thickening of vessel wall, the decrease of elasticity and the enhancement of vascular resistance, hence lead to hypertension.
2 Renin dependent high blood pressure: Renal artery stenosis, reduce of renal perfusion pressure, renal parenchyma disease, as well as cell tumour of the renin secretion, can make the juxtaglomerular cells release a lot of rennin. The main function of renin is to shrink blood vessels. The amount of blood don’t change, the vessels become smaller, so the pressure boosting. Renin and angiotensin can prompt the increase of aldosterone secretion again, then cause water sodium retention. Water sodium retention make further increases of blood volume, thus aggravate hypertension.
We have known that kidney failure can cause high blood pressure, and high blood pressure aggravates kidney disease. So if we want to control kidney disease, we have to control the high blood pressure, hence to reverse the stage of CKD.

2013年9月16日星期一

Some Advices to the Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease


Scientific diet is vital to the treatment of chronic kidney disease. A healthy diet structure not only can slow down the deterioration of disease effectively, but also slow down the symptoms caused by chronic kidney disease. So patients should have an examination of diet structure systematically. According to their symptoms, they can make an analysis of the body to find which elements is too much or what kind of elements is lack of, and then find a suitable diet structure. For example, the patients with chronic kidney disease should eat more grains, vegetables and fresh fruit, but if the content of potassium in your body is above the normal level, you should avoid some foods high in potassium, such as buckwheat, bananas, tomatoes, etc.
These are some analysis towards diet demand of different symptoms:
1) The patients of chronic kidney disease with diabetes, heart disease or high cholesterol should reduce the intake of fat and cholesterol. Animal fat and internal organs all contain high cholesterol and fat, and the peanuts, walnuts, almonds and sesame seeds also contain high fat.
2) If there is a symptom of proteinuria, you need to limit the intake of protein to reduce the damage of kidney from proteinuria. Generally speaking, 0.6 / kg of protein one day can meet the body's physiological needs. The selection of protein should give priority to fish, lean meat, chicken, milk, and avoid intake of vegetable protein, which contains non-essential amino acids. If the phosphorous is too high and accompanied by acidosis symptoms, the intake of protein should also be limited, as the intake of protein is often associated with the intake of phosphorus and other inorganic acid ion.
3) If there are edema symptoms, the patients should eat some light food, because salt contains a lot of sodium. The too much sodium in the body can cause edema.
4) The patients should intake enough calories and vitamins to maintain the normal function of the body, and eat some food of high quantity of heat after exercise, such as rice, wheat, potatoes, apples, etc.
Generally speaking, the patients should supplement the kind of elements they are lack of, and limit the intake of those elements of high proportion. The aim is to keep each function of the body in a normal level.

Is Fish Good for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients?


Fish is common food in our daily life, especially in costal cities. It is well known that eating fish regularly is beneficial to people’s health. As everyone knows, fish is nutritious, due to its abundant protein. However, is fish good for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients? Does fish always helpful to the renal disease remedy?
Does CKD patients need to replenish protein?
According to the health care for CKD patients, people should restrict the intake of protein. Reducing protein content in food can improve azotemia, and relieve damages made by proteinuria to kidneys. It can also reduce serum inorganic phosphorus and lighten acidosis, for there always are phosphorus and other mineral acid ionic when ingesting protein. Generally speaking, 30~60g protein supplication is enough for a CKD patient. Besides, the choice of protein is also very pivotal. They must choose superior protein.
Is fish a good choice as protein provider?s
There are many protein-containing foods, such as egg, soybean, peanut, beef, lobster, nut, oat, fish. Among them, fish, lean, milk and so on, are foods with high quality protein. As mentioned, fish is nutritious, and is a kind of high protein. Take less food with vegetable protein as much as possible, for they always contain non-essential amino acid. Excess intake will harm patients’ health on the contrary. So, fish is one of good food with first-class protein. And it is appropriate for CKD patients to eat, in the scientific guidance of doctors.
So, fish is a good choice for CKD patients to eat. Having appropriate diet under the guidance of doctor is helpful with your health.

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