Dietary Limitation for Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy

1. Protein foods
What NOT to eat: processed food such as sausage, and foods high in fat such as streaky pork, beef, whale meat, ribchop, eel, tunny and menhaden
Though these foods contain high protein, their content of saturated fatty acid is also very high, which will cause high level of blood lipid and finally induce Coronary Heart Disease
2. Carbohydrate foods
What NOT to eat: dry beans, sweet potatoes and biscuits of strong taste
As dry beans and sweet potatoes can easily lead to flatulence, patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy had better not eat the two kind food. And biscuits of strong taste contain much sugar and sodium, so they are also not appropriate for patients.
3. Fat foods
What NOT to eat: animal oil, bacon
4. Foods high in vitamins and mineral substance
What NOT to eat: condiment vegetables such as celery, leaf mustard and green onion, and vegetables containing hard fibre such as bamboo shoots and corn
5. Other foods
What NOT to eat: spices such as mustard, curry powder and hot pepper, alcoholic drinks, coffee, strong black tea, carbonated beverage, pickled foods such as salted fish roe, salted salmon and pickles

Innovative Therapy in Treating Hypertensive Nephropathy

Since western medicine can not treat Hypertensive Nephropathy fundamentally and has obvious side effect, some patients begin to take Traditional Chinese Medicine into consideration. In fact, the curative effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine is good, and this disease can be treated from the root cause. In addition, Traditional Chinese Medicine has few side effects. However, generally, it will take a long time to show obvious curative effect, and few people like to take the oral Chinese herbal soup which has a bitter taste. Therefore, some people begin to wonder whether there is a kind of medicine which has no side effect, no bitter taste and also can treat Hypertensive Nephropathy fundamentally. The answer is "Yes". It is an innovative therapy in treating this disease.

On the one hand, it is aimed at improving the blood vessels at all levels, thus decreasing the blood pressure fundamentally. There are a large quantity of vasodilatation factors in the Traditional Chinese Medicine which has been superfinely shattered. The vasodilatation factors will enter into the tiny blood vessels, and can have a synergistic effect with the vascular tension factors, thus relaxing the blood vessels at all levels, and finally remitting the high blood pressure caused by insufficient diastole and overstrain of the blood vessels.
On the other hand, it is aimed at repairing the damaged nephron and improving the renal function. Once the superfinely-shattered medicines are permeated into our human body by external application, it will takes effect directly at the kidney lesions, thus repairing the damaged kidney and rebuilding the renal function. As the root cause has been removed, the high blood pressure will recover to normal naturally.

Complications of Hypertensive Nephropathy

1. Renal arteriosclerosis and Renal Failure
Hypertension has a close relation with kidneys. On one hand, Hypertension can cause kidney lesions; on the other hand, the kidney lesions can aggravate Hypertension. Hypertension and kidney lesions influence each other, thus forming a vicious circle. In addition, rapidly progressive Hypertension can lead to malignant renal arteriosclerosis, which will develop into Renal Failure quickly.
2. Cerebrovascular Accident
Cerebrovascular Accident is also known as stroke. It is serious, and its fatality rate is high. Even if it will not cause death, it will lead to disability in most cases. For patients with Hypertension, the higher the blood pressure is, the higher the incidence of stroke is. If patients have dizziness, headache, nausea, fatigue and other symptoms caused by anger, sudden accident, strenuous exercise and other incentives, the occurrence of stroke should be highly suspected, and the patients had better be taken to the hospitals immediately.
3. Coronary Heart Disease
The changes of the blood pressure can cause the imbalance of oxygen supply and oxygen demand of the myocardium. When patients with Hypertension have Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, it means Hypertensive Heart Disease occurs, which will finally lead to Heart Failure.

How Should Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy Drink Water

Why should drink more water nephropathy hypertension?
Hypertensive Nephropathy patients had better drink a glass of warm water every morning after getting up. This is because after a night's sleep, our body are lacking water relatively, and it will cause hemoconcentration. If we drink a glass of water, then the blood will be diluted and return to normal circulation, thus preventing Cerebral Thrombosis and Myocardial Infarction effectively.

· Drinking water before sleep is also very important for patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy. Some people would worry about that drinking water will cause frequent night urination. However, lacking of water in the night is also dangerous for patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy. For the elderly with Hypertension, due to the decline of their renal function and the frequent night urination, the plasma concentration and the hyperfunction of platelet cohesion will be increased. Therefore, in order to decrease the risk of thrombosis, drinking water before sleep is necessary.

· When drinking water, patients should pay attention to the principle of drinking a little at a time, for drinking a lot at a time will increase the burden on the heart.

2. What kind of drink is appropriate for patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy?

For patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy, the most appropriate drink which can supply water and is beneficial to the patients' health is green tea. The reason is that green tea contains abundant tea polyphenols. And the strong antioxidation of tea polyphenols can restrain the development of tumor and arteriosclerosis.

However, the tea also contains caffeine, theobromine and other active substances which can excite the central nervous system, and accelerate the excitement of the cerebral cortex, thus contracting the blood vessel of brain. For patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy, it is a potential risk. Therefore, strong tea is not appropriate.
Water is the source of life, drink more water is good for the body.

Can Hypertensive Nephropathy Be Found Early?

How early found Hypertensive Nephropathy.
1. Early detection of Hypertensive Nephropathy

There are some symptoms of Hypertensive Nephropathy which can help find this disease early:

· Backache: Patients will have backache of no clear or definite reason, and they had better go to hospital and have a check.

· There are many foams in the urine and they will not disappear in a short time.

· The color of the urine will change. In patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy, the color of their urine is like that of soy sauce.

· Nighttime urination: Generally, for normal people who are no more than 60 years old, nighttime urination is not frequent. However, if the young people have frequent urination at night, then it may indicates that the renal function of young people is not good.

· Edema: Edema will occur on the eyelids or the face when patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy get up in the morning, and it will disappear gradually after noon.

· Too much or too little urine: The average urine volume of normal people is 1500 ml/d, and the frequency is 4~8 times per day. If we have not had excessive sweating, drink large quantities of water, or had fever, we need to see a doctor to insure whether it is caused by renal lesions when the urine volume decreases or increases suddenly.

2. Definite diagnosis of Hypertensive Nephropathy

In the early stage of Hypertensive Nephropathy, the symptoms may not obvious in some patients, and the occurrence of the aforementioned symptoms can just indicate that we may have this disease, therefore, in order to make a definite diagnosis, we need to take the following tests in a hospital:

· Urinary microalbumin determination: When Hypertension begins to cause damage to the kidneys, the level of microalbumin in urine will increase. Therefore, the urinary microalbumin determination can help find out whether the kidney has been damaged.

· Red blood cell count: By routine urine test, there is often no microscopic hematuria. However, by the examination of urinary sediments, it is found that the red blood cells(mainly are abnormal red blood cells) in urine increase.

· β2 microglobulin determination in blood and urine