1. General nursing method
The patients with acute glomerular nephritis should rest in bed. The diet principle including low salt, high vitamin and high heat. The intake of protein should be kept in 40~70 g per day, the salt intake is 2~3 g per day. The food rich in potassium should be avoided.
2. Symptomatic treatment
Diuresis: Thiazide diuretics are the most general.
Reduce blood press: the common drugs include thiazide diuretics and vasodilator, if necessary, patients can take ganglionic blocking agent or adding calcium channel blocker.
The therapy of hyperkalemia: limit the high potassium food and take diuretics for expelling potassium.
3. Complication therapy
Heart failure: treatment should focus on correcting water sodium retention and repairing blood capacity.
Hypertensive encephalopathy: the patients can be injected sodium nitroprusside.
4. Treat the infection
Use antibiotics therapy to treat the infection for two weeks or till healing.
5. Anticoagulation and thrombolysis
6. Dialysis
The acute glomerular nephritis patients experience severe water-sodium retention and acute kidney failure should do dialysis.
7. Receive the treatment combined traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine to treat the disease.
The patients with glomerular nephritis should go to hospital as early as possible to avoid further kidney damage.
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