1. Avoid unhealthiness food
Avoid unhealthiness food is one of the methods to prevent infection for nephrotic syndrome patients, which is the most important point of infection prevention. Patients should not eat cold food, especially in summer, in case of suffering intestinal infection.
2. Pay attention to hygiene
After meals, patients had better clean the teeth promptly or rinse mouth to avoid decayed tooth, keep perineum health, take a bath and change underpants frequently to avoid local infection.
3. Avoid catching a cold
4. Avoid aetiological agent
Avoid the place in poor environment or crowded, wear respirator if need be, keep away from the people with infection.
5. Boost immunity
Patients with nephrotic syndrome will loss massive protein from their urine, the lost material include important constituent of human immunity, such as immune globulin and alexin. So patients should boost immunity through moderate exercise and well-balanced diet.
6. Once the patients get infection, please treat it with caution
When nephrotic syndrome patients get upper respiratory tract infections, some of them may take antibiotics to kill bacteria and treat infections, that's definitely the wrong path to take. Because most of the antibiotics have liver and kidney toxicity, if the patients take wrong drugs, their renal disease will be deteriorated severely.
As everyone knows, nephrotic syndrome patients have weak immunity, they are vulnerable to bacterial infection and suffer complication easily. Thus to prevent infection is important for nephrotic syndrome patients. If you have any problem, please feel free to ask online renal medicine specialists.
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