1. Patients should seek a proper treatment to cure their primary disease actively, because the primary disease is the main reason to renal failure. For example, intensive insulin therapy should be taken for the diabetic nephropathy patients to slow down the decline of remaining kidney function.
2. Patients need pay attention to the renal infarction, especially for the elderly male patients who have got prostatic hyperplasia, kidney and ureter stone.
3. Avoid nephrotoxic drugs. Lots of medicine is harmful to human kidney, so when the renal failure patients take the medicine,they should be especially careful.
4. The water volume in dialyzate should be limited to 5~7% of the patients’ body weight to prevent low blood pressure. Because the inadequacy of effective blood capacity can lead to the further ischemia in kidney, worsen kidney damage.
5. Avoid high protein and high purine diet, high protein diet can increase the burden of kidneys, the renal failure patients without dialysis should take low protein diet. However, dialysis will lead to the lose of low-molecular-weight metabolites, so the patients on dialysis should take proper high protein diet following the guidance of physician to prevent malnutrition.
Kidney failure patients need to be taken good care of, in order to help to improve the effect of the treatment, early treatment is the key point to treat kidney disease.
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