High risk of potassium nephropathy

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I often feel weak, and somehow my body is swollen, especially my eyes are very swollen. I dare not drink water every night, and my eyelids are still swollen in the morning. Later, the situation became more and more serious. I found out that I have nephrotic syndrome, and now I am taking some related drugs to treat it. But after suffering from this disease, especially the patients with high potassium nephrosis, I don't know what harm it will cause What should we pay attention to in our diet? Now let's share some experience.

High risk of potassium nephropathy

First of all, patients with chronic nephritis because of renal function damage, itself is easy to cause hyperkalemia, and hyperkalemia will cause arrhythmia, and even shock. Therefore, can not eat high potassium food, so as not to cause hyperkalemia. If the diagnosis is nephrotic syndrome, should eat fresh vegetables and appropriate amount of fruit, appropriate drinking water; avoid all supplements, tonics and easy to catch fire food, such as: pepper, litchi, chocolate, etc. Especially Yin deficiency and internal heat, such as tongue purple, pulse stagnation, chest tightness, abdominal distension and other blood stasis patients.

Secondly, patients with kidney disease are suitable for light and easy to digest food, avoid seafood, beef, mutton, spicy food, wine and all hair, such as: spiced ingredients, coffee, coriander, etc.; especially patients with Yin deficiency For example: red tongue, big pulse, night sweat, dry stool, hematuria and other diseases; but patients with Yang deficiency such as: pale tongue, white fur, deep pulse, cold body, cold limbs, thin stool, edible hot food.

Finally, those with kidney disease and skin edema should eat less salt, limit the amount of protein food and drink less water. If the edema is not serious, you can eat low sodium diet; if there is no edema, you can not limit the intake of drinking water and protein food; if there is hematuria under the microscope, you should drink more water, and eat more apple, sugar, black sesame, Auricularia auricula and other Yin nourishing and fire reducing food.

matters needing attention

When we find kidney disease, we often lose confidence in our own body, but we need to insist on treatment. When we find that the renal function is slowly declining, in addition to drug treatment, doctors usually recommend patients to reduce protein intake, so as to reduce the burden of the kidney and delay the time of becoming end-stage renal disease. In addition to limiting protein, doctors also choose to limit sodium according to the different conditions Or phosphorus or water diet.