The temperature is higher in summer and the days are long. For patients with kidney disease, more attention should be paid to monitoring blood pressure, proteinuria, edema, urine volume, urine volume and other symptoms to avoid fluctuations in the condition.
In fact, some behaviors in summer are very unfavorable to the stability of the disease, and many kidney friends don't care. If you want to keep your condition stable for a year, you should also pay attention to these little things!
Always forget to take your blood pressure?
As we said earlier, some patients have low blood pressure when they relapse. The main reason is that high temperature in summer will lead to vasodilation around the body, and drinking more water will lead to a drop in blood pressure. Generally, it will drop by 5- 10mmHg, and it will be lower for patients with normal hypotension to take antihypertensive drugs at the same time.
Moreover, many kidney friends do not have the habit of measuring blood pressure every day, and do not know the condition in time, which is prone to misjudgment. Some patients with low blood pressure have dizziness and headache, and often think that their blood pressure is high, so taking antihypertensive drugs is counterproductive.
Hypertension or hypotension is very unfavorable to renal function, so kidney friends should insist on measuring blood pressure in summer. It is best to test it three times a day, in the morning, in the middle and in the evening. It is acceptable to measure 5~ 10mmHg lower than usual in summer, but we should pay attention to it when it is lower.
Is drinking water always enough or too much?
In summer, you sweat more and lose more water, so you need to take more water than usual. Generally, you should drink at least 2000 ml of water every day to meet your needs. The kidney is an organ with abundant blood flow. Replenishing water in time is helpful to stabilize blood circulation and maintain the stability of blood pressure, proteinuria and other indicators.
Although it is said that more water should be added, the water consumption of patients with edema dialysis should also be determined according to the actual situation. For example, patients with severe edema need to see the urine volume before drinking water. The amount of water in a day is mostly the amount of urine in the previous day +500-700 ml of water. So are dialysis patients.
Some patients drink 3000 ml or more water every day, which will increase the filtration burden of the kidneys and is not recommended. It is best to take a small amount for many times each time, so as to keep the water and sodium in the body stable and contribute to the stability of renal function.
Eating without restraint?
It is too hot in summer, and many people have a bad appetite, so they are willing to eat cold things, such as cold salad, ice cream and cold watermelon, which are all taken out of the refrigerator by themselves. But there is a hidden danger, it is easy to eat bad stomach, cause diarrhea, and even induce gastroenteritis seriously. Lead to infection symptoms, and then aggravate kidney disease.
Therefore, for patients with poor immunity, it is best to pay attention to diet management and try not to eat too cold food, which will increase the burden on the kidneys.
In addition, in summer, young people's favorite food collocation is beer and barbecue. Are these two foods really different? Beautiful? Both of them are foods with very high purine content, which will cause high uric acid, and the barbecue oil and cholesterol are high, and the seasoning contains a lot of salt, which is very unfavorable to the kidneys. Therefore, the combination of these two foods is not suitable for kidney friends. Try to shut your mouth.