What Should Diabetic Nephropathy Stage 4 Patients Pay Attention To

Diabetic nephropathy can be divided into 5 stages. As for a stage 4 diabetic nephropathy, the disease is near to end stage and at this time patients should pay more attention to so as to prevent deterioration. Let’s see what patients in stage 4 should focus on.

Diabetic Nephropathy patients should pay attention to the following aspects:

1. prevent cold and tiredness.

2. eat light and easily-digestible foods. Keep far away from beef, mutton, spicy foods, liquor and all stimulated foods like coffee, caraway and wait spiced aniseed.

3. edema patients should avoid salt and limit the intake of protein as well as limit water intake. Patients with mild edema can follow a low salt diet. Patients without edema have no need to limit the intake of water and protein.

4. microscopic hematuria patients should eat more apples, white sugar, semen sesami nigrum and fungus.

5. high potassium patients should not eat foods with high potassium like sea foods, mushroom, fungus, nuts, bananas, oranges, potatoes, soybean sauce, tea leaf and dried turnip.

6. patients with high uric acids should not eat animal organs, fish, shrimp, crab, mushroom, beans and spinach.

7. kidney failure patients are allowed to drink half a pound of milk, one egg and some lean meat per day.

8. Hypertension patients should take hypotensive medications to control blood pressure. Patients who have taken steroids should reduce the dosage under the instruction of doctor. Acidosis patients should rectify acid intoxication.

9. married patients should pay particular attention to their sex life.

10. diabetic nephropathy patients should also build confidence and adhere to their treatment.

We hope the above is helpful for you. If you or your beloved one has diabetic nephropathy, you can leave a message below or consult our online doctor directly. We will provide suggestion according to your specific conditions.