Reasonable Diet of Nephritis

Nephritis is the inflammatory lesion of non suppurative of the both sides of the kidneys. There will be edema, high blood pressure, and other symptoms because of the renal corpuscle damage, which is the most commen kind of kidney diseases. There are a great variety of nephritis, such as acute glomerulus nephritis, chronic glomerulus nephritis, nephropyelitis, latent glomerulonephritis, henoch-schonlein purpura nephritis (anaphylactic purpura nephritis), lupus erythematosus nephritis (lupus nephritis).

Symptoms of nephritis

premonitory symptom

Most of the patients have pioneer history of infection one month of premorbid, the onset of the illness is mainly all of a sudden, but it can also be recessively slow onset.

urine abnormal

It is usually begain with oliguria, or oliguria little by little, even anuria. It can be accompanied by gross hematuria meanwhile, the time of duration is unequal. But the microscopic hematuria sustains. The change of routine urine test and acute glomeruloephritis are fundamentally the same.

edema

About half of the patients have edema at the begaining of oliguria, especially important about the facial and lower limbs. Once the edema occurred, it is difficult to degraded.

high blood pressure

At the onset of the illness, some patients are accompanied by high blood pressure, some patients have h igh blood pressure

Reasonable Diet of Nephritis

1. Limit the intake of water: People should limit the intake of many kinds of water to prevent causing the acute lung edema or dilutional hyponatremia because of too much body fluid. Food liquid content should be calculated, for example, 1g protein produces 0.43ml water, 1g fat produces 1.07ml water, 1g carbohydrate produces 0.55ml. People should record water intake and urine volume. The acceptable daily intake is based on fluid discharge. In general condition, patients should drink water according to the enjoin of the doctors.

2. Patients should have a protosalt and low sodium diet: The patients are generally accompanied by edema, and is conducted with a protosalt and low sodium diet based on the measure of hyponatremia.

3. Good proteins: Patients with chronic nephritis have a bad appetite, and it’s hard to meet the requirements of high quantity of heat. If the state of the illness is relatively light, the heat supply should based on digestible carbohyfrate, the patients can eat fruits, wheat starch noodles, oatmeals, biscuits, and other wheat starch snacks, add a bit of rice-water or gruel. The patients should reduce the intake of protein and non-essential amino acid to reduce the burden of the kidney, and prevent the exacerbation of the nitrogen mass stranding. Protein should be given animal protein to the greatest extent, and based on high biological value and low protein.