Foods Renal Failure Patients Should not Eat

High-phosphorus Food:
Patients with Kidney Failure are not allowed to eat high-phosphorus food. Excess intake of phosphorus will result in hyperphosphatemia, which will do harm to repairing damaged kidneys and their whole body. Kelp, nori, animal offal, honey and yolk rich in phosphorus are not allowed to eat.

High-fat Food:
Excessive intake of fat may lead to hyperliperia, which is not benefical to patients’ recover. Damaged kidneys will deteriorate further. Patients are not allowed to cook with animal oil. Greasy food (hamburger, beefsteak, fried drumstick and chicken wings) is also not advocated to them. Plant oil, especially maize oil is recommended to be used to cook.

High-potassium Food:
Patients with Kidney Failure had better not eat food rich in potassium, such as banana, lily, Hami melon, orange, tremella, raisin and potato. The inability of patients’ kidneys to discharge extra potassium may cause hyperkalemia, which may lead to abnormal heart rhythm and even death. Even when their disease condition can be controlled well, they are allowed to be supplied proper quantity of potassium. In this condition, patients must follow their doctor’s advice strictly.

High-salt Food:
Large intake of salt will cause water and sodium retention in blood for kidneys’ inability to discharge sodium, which may damage patients’ kidneys further. And this condition will give rise to high blood pressure, which is harmful to damaged kidneys. Patients should eat low-food food, such as seafood. When they cook, they are allowed to take a small spoon of salt in food. Consult your doctor that whether the food you eat regularly are allowed to eat.

High-protein Food:
High-protein food is not allowed to eat for them, such as beans, soymilk, melon seeds, peanut and walnut. High-quality, low protein food contributes to supplying needed protein for body and repairing damaged kidneys. Excessive intake of protein will damage glomerulis, and renal tubules. All of these will aggravate kidney fibrosis.

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Causes for Nausea in Renal Failure

Nausea is a common symptom of Renal Failure. Many patients have poor appetite and can not get enough nutrition intakes, declining their immunity seriously. Therefore, it is very important for the patients with Renal Failure to know why they have nausea.

The urea nitrogen level in Renal Failure is usually very high. The urea will be resolved by the urease in the stomach and intestine thus irritating the gastrointestinal mucosa causing inflammation and ulcer. According to some researches, the higher the urine nitrogen level is, the more serious the nausea will be.

Metabolic acidosis is also an important cause of nausea for patients with Renal Failure. As the kidneys fail to discharge the metabolic products out of body, much acid metabolites will deposit in the body, leading to metabolic acidosis. In this case, the patients may have nausea and vomit.

Some medicines also can lead to nausea. If the patients with Renal Failure use cyclophosphamide over time, it can injure their liver function leading to nausea. If the patients stop taking cyclophosphamide for a period, their liver function will recover gradually and the nausea and vomit will disappear.
If you have any follow-up questions about nausea in Renal Failure or you want to know the efficient and natural treatment for Renal Failure, you are welcomed to send us an email to doctornickzhang@hotmail.com, or you can leave us a message.

Skin Disease in Renal Failure

Skin itching is the most common disease problem for the patients with End Stage Renal Failure. Based on some research, about 60 to 80 percent of them will experience skin itching problem. It is also said that nearly 86 to 95 of the patients on dialysis also have to encounter the problems of skin itching for the phosphorus can not be filtrated out of blood abundantly.

Besides skin itching, they still have pale skin, which is related to the secondary anemia. Extensive bruising of the skin for the platelets and other hemostatic abnormalities is often seen. Some patients experience firm plaques or nodules on the surfaces of the larger joints with a chalky material exuding because of calcium deposits in the skin.

In order to solve the skin problems, the patients should use a hypo-allergenic soap and avoid long and warm baths. Moreover, they should avoid drying of the skin. After towel drying, they should apply a thick moisturizer while the skin is still damp. However, those measures can only alleviate the skin problems to some extent, but they can not solve them from the root cause. As the skin problems are caused by the build-up of wastes in body, the patients should firstly remove those wastes out of their bodies firstly.

In normal cases, our kidneys can filtrate our blood and excrete the wastes and excessive fluid out of body so as to keep our internal environment clean and maintain our normal physiological activities. However, for the patients with Renal Failure, their kidneys can not function normally. Therefore, the patients should improve renal blood circulation thus promoting the excretion of wastes.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy makes full use of traditional Chinese medicines in improving blood circulation. The effective integrants of Chinese medicines can dilate blood vessels thus accelerating blood flow. As a result, the accumulated wastes will be able to brought into urine and be discharged out of body in urine. In this way, the patients can treat skin disease from the root cause. If you have any follow-up questions, you are welcomed to leave us a message or you can send us an email to doctornickzhang@hotmail.com.

IgA Nephropathy: High Creatinine Level And Prognosis

When kidney damages develop seriously, high creatinine levels will send a signal. The following information is about high creatinine level in IgA Nephropathy and its prognosis.

Creatinine is a kind of micromolecule urotoxins, which is the byproduct of muscle activity. In normal condition, these urotoxins will be filtered out by kidneys and keep your blood and body healthy. However, once your kidneys cannot cleanse them out, it will elevate the levels of creatinine.

Creatinine reflects the kidney function levels, however, it is not fast enough. Only when kidney functions decline more than 30%~50%, the creatinine levels goes up later on.

Thereby, to monitor the early kidney damages, you are suggested with the specific test for early kidney damages, such as β2 microglobulin, CysC, HCY, RBP, RBP etc. These tests are smarter than creatinine to monitor kidney condition, which are especially recommended to people with diabetes, high blood pressure and whose family member suffering from kidney disease.

Once high creatinine levels occur, it indicates that IgA Kidney Disease patients have developed into a serious kidney damages. In this condition, the treatment that only controls the symptoms by limiting the inflammation is not enough. Patients are suggested to improve kidney functions in a short time. Otherwise, you may miss the key time and wait for kidney falling and go on dialysis or register on waiting list.

Generally speaking, the prognosis of IgA Nephropathy is good. Its prognosis mainly depends on the following factors.

1.Usually, the prognosis of male patients with IgA Nephropathy is bad. Moreover, the elder the patients are, the worse its prognosis will be.
2. The prognosis of the patients with frequent gross hematuiria is bad.
3. If the patients are accompanied with a mass of protein in urine, the prognosis is bad.
4. If the blood pressure is beyond control, the prognosis of IgA Nephropathy is bad.
5. The patients with serious pathological changes, its prognosis is worse.

Deal with Hematuria in IgA Nephropathy

IgA Nephropathy (Berger′s Disease) patients appear to have microscopic hematuria and gross hematuria.The symptoms are mainly caused due to damages of glomerular filtration membrane. How to deal with hematuria?

1. The best way to prevent hematuria is to have regular and balanced diet. Never eat something too salty or too greasy. Eat less meat. Eat more vegetables. Develop a good habit of drinking water in daily life.

2. Do proper physical activities regularly.

3. Have a correct understand of hematuria and do not be too worried. Gross hematuria refers to 1~3ml blood in 1000ml urine, so it will not cause serious blood loss.

4. Keep a balance between work and rest. Avoid over-strain work and strenuous exercise.

5. Treat inflammatory disease, such as urinary tract infection, etc positively.
Apart from taking daily nursing care, IgA Nephropathy patients should be clear that only with effective treatment, can you get rid of hematuria permanently. If you are interested in the natural and efficient treatment for IgA Nephropathy, you can send us an email to doctornickzhang@hotmail.com, or you can leave us a message.

The Foods That IgA Nephropathy Patients Should Avoid

Animal livers.
IgA Nephropathy patients can not eat or less eat the food rich in cholesterol, such as animal internal organs-livers or hearts and they should eat more food rich in fatty acid(such as plant oil, deep sea fish oil)and food rich in fibrin, such as green vegetables, celeries and so on.

Meat and fish
All the Kidney Disease patients including IgA Nephropathy ones need to follow what the doctor suggested and avoid to eat meat and fish during the Festivals. They should stick to the eating habits as usual.
This is because meat and fish are diet taboos for Kidney Disease patients who should have ‘quality low-protein’ diet and they also belong to high-fat foods(mainly including cholesterol and triglycerides). A high-fat diet will not only aggravate the damage to the patients’ kidney but it also can damage the kidney of the healthy people.

Fried foods
Use vegetable oil to cook food and eat less Fried foods. Eat little peanuts, because they contain much oil. But the patients can eat some walnuts, sunflower seeds, nut let and so on.

In addition, IgA Nephropathy patients cannot eat spicy food, seafood, beef, mutton, crabs, garlic, onions, parsley, dog meat and wine, coffee, dressings and other stimulating food. IgA Nephropathy patients should not eat any tonic food and hot food, such as chili, litchi, chocolate, etc. The patients are yin deficiency with purple tongue, astringent pulse, hard breath, abdominal distension and so on should keep the diet taboo in mind.

If you still want to know more about diet for IgA Nephropathy or its natural treatment, you can send us an email to doctornickzhang@hotmail.com.

Chinese Herbal Medicine for IgA Nephropathy

If you are suffering from IgA Nephropathy, the following information about pathogenesis and treatment for IgA Nephropathy can be helpful.
In fact, the pathological changes of IgA Nephropathy are caused due to IgA and immune complex deposits in mesangial area of the glomeruli. So renal ischemia and anoxia will appear. Gradually, part of the glomeruli become impaired or scarred, and even sclerosed finally. Glomeruli function as the filtering units of the kidneys and are in charging of cleaning the blood. With scarred glomeruli, big molecules like proteins and red blood cells will spill out into the urine, resulting in proteinuria and hematuria.Metabolic disorders can also appear, so wastes products like BUN, uric acid, creatine, etc will buildup within patient′s body.

Chinese herbs have long been used to treat many diseases in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM), and their curative effects are also significant. However, the decoction tastes bitter and long-term application will also cause digestive ailments.

To overcome the above incompetent sides of traditional Chinese herbs, nephrologists in our hospital create an innovative therapy-Traditional Chinese medicine iontophoresis with our own equipment. It is an external application. The Chinese herbs are micronized into granules which can be permeated into lesions directly with the help of modern osmosis technology.

Traditional Chinese medicine iontophoresis can remove the IgA and immune complex deposited in masangial area by improving blood circulation. Then the states of ischemia and anoxia will be remitted, and further damages to the glomeruli can be prevented. Moreover, Chinese herbal medicine can provide abundant micronutrients to repair the impaired or scarred glomeruli as well as improve overall immunity.

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