Nursing Care of Chronic Nephritis

The incidence of Chronic Nephritis increases very fast in recent years. The onset of this disease is concealed and the damage to kidney function is small, so that this disease usually has developed into the advanced stage when the patient finds it. In view of this situation, nursing care of Chronic Nephritis causes not only experts’ attention but also ordinary citizens’. In fact, we should pay more attention to five aspects in the nursing care of Chronic Nephritis.
1. Disease nursing: According to the difference of patients’ conditions, the doctor should closely observe the location, characteristic and distribution of patient’s edema, take the patient’s blood pressure at regular intervals and record the change of the patient’s urine output strictly.
2. Life nursing: The patients can increase the intake of saccharide and starchy food which will produce water and carbon dioxide, while they should reduce the intake of plant protein and salted food which will aggravate the kidney burden. Besides the above, chronic nephritis patients should have more rest and open their windows more often to get fresh air.
3. Medication nursing: Chronic nephritis patients should pay more attention to their usage of medicine, for example, they should closely observe the change of their blood pressure when they have blood pressure medicine.
4. Symptom nursing: Symptoms usually reflect patients’ condition so they must treat their diseases timely according to their clinical symptoms. Strengthening the clean sanitation of the body skin and oral mucosa and avoiding suprainfection are all benefit to their treatment.
5. Mental nursing: Patients suffering from chronic nephritis usually have heavy mental burden that requires their family members and doctors enlighten these patients. The last point but not the least importance is that we should help the patients to defeat the disease.
Chronic nephritis is so harmful that many patients are full of fears. But if we give them perfect nursing care, they will rebuild their confidence and have a new understanding of their life value.