Diet for Hypertensive Nephropathy

Hypertensive nephropathy is a kind of kidney disease seriously threatening to patients’ health. Many patients received treatment, but they don’t not pay attention to their diet in the daily life, which causes to worsen the disease. What patients with hypertension nephropathy should do in diet to control the disease?

Diet is one of the treatment to hypertensive nephropathy. And good habits would control disease well.

When patients occur edema and hypertension, patients with hypertensive nephropathy should pay attention to limit the intake of salt which should gradually decrease to less than 6g. Decreasing the intake of salt contributes to reduce blood pressure and decrease the water and salt retention.

Patients should control the supplement of heat which should depend on the disease of patients. Because patients occur lipid metabolism disturbance, decreasing the intake of fat is good for controlling the supplement of heat, but not limit the intake of fat.

Patients should pay attention to supply proper vitamin in life which can enhance resistance of patients that is helpful to the treatment of disease.

Patients should pay more attention to the intake of salt, don’t take too much, which would increase the burden of kidneys, even to worsen the disease of patients. But too little intake of protein would make patients occur hypoproteinemia which would affect the health of patients.

Patients can drink tea properly because drinking tea can have a function of clearing heat as well as the function of bating blood vessels.