What To Do With High Blood Pressure And IgA Nephropathy

High blood pressure is the most common complication of IgA Nephropathy. In order to slow down the progression of IgA Nephropathy, we need to control its complication, high blood pressure. What can we do with high blood pressure and IgA Nephropathy?

First, we should know why we need to control high blood pressure.

As IgA Nephropathy advances, it is most common for patients to develop high blood pressure. It is most important for patients to treat high blood pressure, since high blood pressure easily put you at a risk of end-stage renal disease. In addition, there is actually a relationship between high blood pressure and IgA Nephropathy. In other words, high blood pressure and IgA Nephropathy do affects each other. High blood pressure burdens your heart and for a long time can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels are damaged, they may stop excreting wastes and fluid out of the body. In addition, IgA Nephropathy patients with high blood pressure are more likely to have further damaged kidneys than those without high blood pressure. For the reason, IgA Nephropathy patients should take effective measures to control their blood pressure to stop the progression of IgA Nephropathy.

Second, what are effective measures to do with high blood pressure and IgA Nephropathy?

1. Medications used to treat high blood pressure in IgA Nephropathy

If IgA Nephropathy patients have high blood pressure, they can take some high blood pressure medications, including angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), which can lower your blood pressure and also reduce your amount of protein in urine.

2. Dietary tips for IgA Nephropathy patients with high blood pressure

1) You had better have a light diet and be vegetarian. Be vegetarian can lower your blood pressure. As a result, high blood pressure can choose some light foods which include high vitamin, high fiber, high calcium, low fat and low cholesterol. It is more helpful for you to eat coarse grains, coarse cereals, fresh vegetables, fruits, bean products, lean meat and fish etc. What you should avoid is pig oil, spicy foods, greasy foods and coffee.

2) Limit salt intake: the ingredient of salt is sodium. Too much salt intake is the main cause of high blood pressure. In this case, limiting your salt intake is able to lower and maintain your blood pressure. Clinical tests show that IgA Nephropathy patients with high blood pressure should ingest salt of 4.7g/d to 5.8g/d.

3) Stop smoking and drinking

Smoke and alcohol are dangerous factors of high blood pressure. If you smoke and drink, your blood pressure will increase, which leads to the possibility of cardiovascular disease. Besides, alcohol also can reduce the reactivity of patients against high blood pressure medications. As a result, high blood pressure patients should stop smoking and drinking.

Do not be frightened by IgA Nephropathy and high blood pressure. If you treat it properly, you can control the progression of IgA Nephropathy as well as its complications like high blood pressure.