How to Control High Blood Pressure with Nephrotic Syndrome

High blood pressure and Nephrotic Syndrome coexist in one person easily. Because both of these two disorders can cause more severe healthy problems, it is urgent for this person to control high blood pressure with Nephrotic Syndrome. Is there a systemic therapy to treat these two diseases simultaneously?

To know the answer, we had better make clear the root cause.

As we all know, the healthy kidney performs several vital functions. It helps purify blood, remove wastes, toxins and excessive water from the body, keep electrolyte balance, and release hormones to regulate blood pressure. However, Nephrotic Syndrome, characterized by proteinuria, edema, hypoalbuminemia and hyperlipidemia, leads to kidney damage and then kidney can’t play its function normally. As a result, people with Nephrotic Syndrome retain salt and water in their bodies and develop swelling and high blood pressure.

How to control high blood pressure with Nephrotic Syndrome?

If we want to control both high blood pressure and Nephrotic Syndrome, the best treatment includes changes in diet and correct medications.

A healthy diet always play an important role in the whole treatment. Since high-salt diet can aggravate patients’ condition, a low-salt diet is recommended for Nephrotic Syndrome patients with high blood pressure. Canned food, onion soup, foods made with seasoned bread crumbs, sauerkraut, cheese, baked beans with franks, pizza, potato chips, etc, all contributes to foods high in salt.

Some medications that lower high blood pressure can also significantly slow the progression of kidney disease caused by Nephrotic Syndrome, so ACE inhibitors and ARBs do. The reason is that these medications can reduce the pressure inside the glomeruli and thereby reduce proteinuria. Besides, some diuretics may also be required to remit patients’ edema.

The above methods are able to help control high blood pressure with Nephrotic Syndrome, but they can do little for the damaged kidney. Therefore, how to protect patients’ kidney to prevent the relapse of their disease should be sought.