The water intake of kidney disease patients should be limited depending on the extent of edema.
1. If patients experience massive proteinuria, hypoproteinaemia, severe edema, their water intake should be limited to less than 1000 ml per day, ensure water intake is less than urine volume, in order to detumescence as soon as possible.
2. Patients with mild edema can drink 800~1500 ml water per day.
3. Kidney disease patients without obvious edema, high blood pressure, oliguria, cardiomegaly, congestive heart failure do not need to limit water intake. However, patient should avoid excessive water to alleviate the burden of the kidney.
Besides, the timing of drinking is also a significant point needing to be concerned. patients shouldn't drink water from 15 minute before meals to 30 minute after meals, time of forbidding water should be lengthened if the food is not easy to digest. In addition, after eating fruit patients shouldn’t drink water in 30 minute,and after eating meats patients shouldn’t drink in 3 hours.
The proper time of drinking is ten o’clock in the morning, three o’clock in the afternoon and before sleeping in the evening. What you should note here is that patients should drink slowly instead of in haste, which will put a burden on systemic organ.
Drinking water is a common thing for healthy people, which is a big problem for kidney disease patients, drinking water scientifically can improve kidney function, help to treat the disease, the patients should pay more attention to it to help them get well soon.
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