The nursing essentials of diabetic nephropathy on dialysis

Diabetic nephropathy is a severe complication of diabetes, which is a main reason of death due to diabetes. Dialysis is a treatment for end stage of diabetic nephropathy. The major concern of the family numbers of diabetic nephropathy patients is nursing essential for long-term dialysis. Professional proposals are as follow:

1. Provide a quiet and comfortable environment for patients.
2. Monitor the weigh index at regular time
3. The patients with normal blood pressure, unconspicuous edema, less proteinuria can take exercise appropriately to strengthen their physique, enhance the body immunity. The patients with evident edema and renal insufficiency have to stay in bed.
4. Observe the volume, color, character changes of urine, test routine urine and urine specific gravity at least once a week.
5. Limit the intake of water and sodium, the water intake should be controlled in Yesterday's urine volume and add 500 ml.
6. Guide patients to use insulin.

7. Strengthens diet nursing, keep the balance nutrition on the basis of reasonable control total quantity of heat equilibrium. Choose the food with less sugar, low fat, high-quality protein, digestive food and light food enriched with vitamin is preferred. reasonable mix diet to enhance the patients’physique.
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