Six Steps to Healthier Kidney

2015-09-09 11:52

Kidney disease is more and more common in people at present, thus, it is vital for us to prevent kidney disease in daily life. How to keep our kidney in good condition and healthy is one of our great concern. Please see the below six steps which benefits our kidney:

1. You should have some basic knowledge of kidney function and what symptoms kidney disease leads to, like high blood pressure, heart disease, and anemia.

2. Judge risks of kidney disease you may get. If you or your family have high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, heart disease, these may be the risk of kidney disease for you. Besides, some factors such as age, race, urinary tract infection, obesity, kidney stones and immune diseases can result in kidney disease in the end.

3. You need to know what signs of kidney disease are:

Tiredness, protein in urine like foamy urine, more urination, blood in urine, and swelling in body parts.

4. Do examinations in hospital. After these three steps, You should go to get tested with creatinine, proteinuria and GFR as soon as possible if you think you have the high risk of kidney disease.

5. It is important for you to have a healthy lifestyle. You need to have a moderate protein, low fat, low salt diet in daily life. And control blood pressure, blood sugar well. Avoiding smoking and drinking. Never stay up too late.

6. Study more information about kidney disease in life, making yourself keep up with technology and medication. In this way, you can know how to help prevent or treat kidney disease more effectively.

The six steps are very convenient for you to take notes and easy to get followed for us in daily life. More information or any doubt, confusion, welcome to leave a message or contact online doctors anytime. Reply will be given very soon.

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