Uremia and High Blood Pressure

As we all know, hypertension is one of the most common symptoms and complications of the disease of Polycystic Kidney Disease . And the worst prognosis of this disease is uremia. Many patients with this disease, however, don’t know that hypertension is one of the important factors for this disease to develop to uremia. So, what the patients should do to control the blood pressure and prevent uremia?

First, control the blood pressure on the ideal level

According to the general survey, more than half of patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease suffer from hypertension. Only less than 50 percent of patients, however, have realized they have hypertension. And among them, less than 12.5percent are taking medicine to treat the hypertension; and only 2.9percent of them can control the blood pressure in the ideal level. Therefore, we should spread the publicity of hypertension and it is extremely urgent to enhance the people′s cognition of the hazard of hypertension.

Second, take close examination of renal function

It is the precondition of preventing the damage of renal function to control the blood pressure in the ideal level. At the same time, we should take close examination of the renal function of the hypertension patients.

Third, choose therapeutic schedule and medicine reasonably

There are varieties of categories of antihypertensive drugs, which are suitable for different types of symptoms. The basic principle of choosing antihypertensive drugs is that the drugs do not contain the renal toxicity or even possess the function of renal protection. Research shows that ACEI, ARB, CCB, and βBRB can not only control the blood pressure but also can protect our kidney.

What Foods Can Patients with Nephritis and High Blood Pressure Eat

Some useful suggestions as follows:

Water and sodium

High blood volume is very common even among early nephritis patients. Limiting the intake of water and sodium intake through diets can help relieve high blood volume so as to help reduce water and sodium retention, lower high blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart failure.

Protein

A protein-controlled diet is necessary for nephritis and high blood pressure. The significance of a low-protein diet is that less protein-related wastes can be reduced such as urea nitrogen, creatinine, etc. Therefore it can help reduce burdens to the already inflamed kidneys and help slow down illness deterioration.

Celery is a natural diet therapy for nephritis patients with high blood pressure. It can be cooked or you can have the celery juice which are very helpful for lowering high blood pressure. Besides there are many foods in our daily life that can help reduce high blood pressure such as spinach, black fungus, fresh corn, mungbean sprout, etc.

It has been found that if high blood pressure can be well controlled, the risk of cardiovascular complications can be much reduced and patients can have a better prognosis.