How to Improve the Prognosis of Hypertension Nephropathy

1.Lose weight

You′re suggested to control your weight and reach the goal of being lower than 24kg/m2

2.Take balance diet

(a)How much salt do you take each day? WHO advise you to take no more than 6g each day. If you haven′t reach that standard, then reduce it immediately. Firstly, use less salt when cooking. Secondly, eat less salty foods like pickles.

(b)Reduce intake of dietary fat, eat more vegetables and fruits, and supplement some proper high-quality protein but not much. It′s adviced that fat occupies less than 30% in the total calories and saturated fat counts less than 10%; Protein counts for about 15% in the total calories and animal protein couts less than 20% in the total protein.

(c)Limit the intake of alcohol drinks

Hypertension patients are suggested to quit alcohol drinking because alcolhol could increase body′s resistance to the medicines they take. If you are a drinker, you should stop drinking as soon as possible. A healthy man shouldn′t drink more than 20-30g per day, a woman should not drink 10-15g plus each day.

3.Increase physical exercises

Physical exercises could not only reduce blood pressure, but it′s also in favor of losing weight, increase strength, and reducing insulin resistance. Patients should choose right exercise methods according to their age and health condition, such as jogging, brisk walking, and Taichi. Usually it′s safe if you can enforce "3, 5 ,7 " rules. "3" means to walk about 3kms each day, and time is up to 30 minutes; "5" means to take five times exercises each week; "7" means that you age plus heart rate after exercise is around 170. This kind of exercise is moderate and could help keep aerobic metabolism.

4.Reduce mental pressure and keep psychological balance

As longstanding mental pressure and depression is one of major reasons that lead to hypertension and other chronic disease. You could reduce pressure through many ways, such as consulting psychologist doctors, making friends and increasing social activities, developing sport or art hobby and so on.

5.Don′t smoke

It already has been proven that smoking is bad to health. In addition, smoking could reduce the compliance of taking medicines and increase the dose of hypotensor(medicines to reduce blood pressure)