Sodium and Chronic Kidney Disease

2015-07-28 17:20

As is known to all, patients with chronic kidney disease should limit sodium intake in daily life. Sodium plays an important role in our body, and is one of leading electrolytes. Please see the functions of sodium in body:

It can control blood pressure, transfer impulses with nerves and muscle contractions, and adjust acid-base balance in blood. Fluids balance is also regulated with sodium volume. People can not eat much sodium in daily life, because too much sodium can cause swelling of body and high blood pressure. In chronic kidney disease, kidney has difficulty in eliminating excessive sodium from body through urine, leading to high sodium level. In addition, much fluid in blood can lead to heart disease, and make people feel short breath.

Patients with chronic kidney disease must pay attention to sodium amount in daily diet, and avoid high sodium food. Besides, to make a good kidney condition, patients with CKD should have a low protein, low phosphorus, low potassium diet in daily life. a healthy diet can do much good to patients with chronic kidney disease to slow down disease condition. Taking regular exercise increase immunity of patients and help get removed from body.

Patients with chronic kidney disease should not only pay attention to diet, but also to treatment. Hot Compress Therapy is very effective to treat kidney disease with recovering kidney function. And it is very easy to operate by putting Chinese medicine crushed on bilateral shenshu acupoints place. These medicine can get into kidney, repairing kidney damage and prevent inflammation. After a period treatment with Hot Compress Therapy, kidney can revive gradually, eliminating excessive sodium form body. As for the specific amount of sodium, you can send your disease conditions to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com, leave a message or contact our online doctors.

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