Nourishing the kidneys is like saving lives! These 6 good habits for accelerating kidney disease recovery

Spring is the season for the recovery of all things, and naturally it is also a good time for the growth and development of kidney qi. Seizing this opportunity to nourish the kidneys can make the condition more stable! So, what good habits can make our kidneys healthier? Come and take a look together!

Develop a habit of loving drinking water

Some patients are afraid that drinking water can cause edema, so they can hardly drink much water throughout the day. However, spring weather is windy and dry, and it is also a season of frequent pharyngitis, so water is needed to maintain resistance; Adequate water is also a necessary condition for the kidneys to regulate water and electrolyte balance in the body and metabolize waste.

So everyone should develop the habit of loving drinking water. There is no need to deliberately control edema, and one can drink around 1500ml of water a day, including milk, porridge, and other liquids; Edema patients must be controlled within 1000ml, and not too much (which will worsen edema) or too little (which will worsen oliguria).

The correct way to consume vegetables and fruits

Kidney disease patients should eat more vegetables and fruits to supplement vitamins, fiber, and other nutrients, in order to avoid dietary restrictions that may lead to nutritional imbalance.

But eating vegetables and fruits also requires attention. Most beneficial vegetables and fruits are high in potassium, which plays an important role in balancing blood pressure and normal functioning of nerves and muscles in the human body. They are also good nutritional supplements for patients with low potassium nephropathy; But for patients with concurrent hyperkalemia, vegetables and fruits with high potassium levels are very dangerous. Therefore, patients with hyperkalemia should blanch their vegetables and fruits before consuming them to remove water-soluble potassium.

Maintain a light diet

Due to the dry weather in spring, it is easy for the body to develop internal fire. Therefore, when nourishing the kidneys, avoid eating dry fried and greasy foods, and maintain a light diet. Drinking Congee is the best choice, which can meet the nutritional needs of water, dietary fiber, calories and other aspects, and is light and easy to digest. It is also necessary to increase the proportion of green leafy vegetables.

Dry fried greasy foods are rich in fats and oils, which can exacerbate hyperlipidemia and harm the cardiovascular system; Moreover, dry fried foods have a relatively high salt content. Adding a high salt diet to dry spring can inevitably cause various symptoms of overheating and inflammation.

Eat meat directly and avoid soup

Patients should supplement high-quality protein to nourish and protect their kidneys, and stay away from kidney damaging substances. You can eat some lean pork, chicken, and fish in moderation to supplement protein and ensure comprehensive nutrition; But a diet that is unfavorable for the kidneys, such as soup, which contains a large amount of purines and oils, can exacerbate gout and cause an increase in uric acid. This type of food should be avoided.

Increase outdoor activities

The plan for a year lies in spring. Increasing exercise in spring can not only enhance physical fitness, prevent influenza, but also stretch and activate muscles and bones, injecting vitality into the kidneys. The winter climate is cold, and it is understandable not to go out for exercise; But now it's spring, if you're lazy at home and don't want to move, your kidneys will protest.

Now that spring has just begun, the temperature difference between day and night is still quite large. If patients have time, they should try to go out for exercise after 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning or during the period when the temperature has warmed up to prevent heavy humidity and haze in the morning.

Don't listen to folk remedies casually

This is a very serious problem. Although there are many folk formulas for nourishing and tonifying the kidneys, some of which have indeed been verified in clinical practice, we cannot freely dispense drugs according to these formulas. For example, fish bile, snake bile, etc. have the effects of strengthening yang, tonifying kidney, clearing heat and detoxifying, but they must be purchased from a legitimate Chinese pharmacy and can only be taken after special methods have removed kidney toxicity; Cases of acute kidney failure caused by direct consumption of fish bile and snake bile are not uncommon.

Patients must not blindly listen to the "folk remedies" spoken by others around them. They need to communicate with the doctor first, confirm that there are no toxic side effects, and then go to a regular pharmacy to dispense medication.

There are many benefits to nourishing the kidneys in spring. In order not to miss this opportunity, everyone must strive to cultivate these good habits!