Nephritis refers to the inflammation of kidneys. Nephritis is a kind of chronic and lingering clinical disease. Nephritis is the most common producer of glomerular injury. It is a disturbance of the glomerular structure with inflammatory cell proliferation.
Nephritis can lead to:
- Oligouria(urine output decrease)
- Uremia(retention of waste product in the body)
- Hematouria(present of blood in the urine)
- Proteinuria(present of protein in the urine)
Nephritis is one of the highest cause of human death. Proteinuria is the most severe because it leads to losing of protein in the body.This may cause blood clotting in the body and sudden stroke occur.
For better curing the patient with chronic disease,we need to prescribe a well and suitable diet for the patient.
What causes nephritis?
Glomerulonephritis may be caused by problems with the body’s immune system. Often, the exact cause of glomerulonephritis is unknown. Damage to the glomeruli causes blood and protein to be lost in the urine. The condition may develop quickly and kidney function is lost within weeks or months ( rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis). A quarter of people with chronic glomerulonephritis have no history of kidney disease.
The following may increase your risk of this condition:
- Blood or lymphatic system disorders
- Exposure to hydrocarbon solvents
- History of cancer
- Infections such as strep infections, viruses, heart infections, or abscesses
Many conditions cause or increase the risk for glomerulonephritis, including:
- Amyloidosis
- Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody disease
- Blood vessel diseases such as vasculitis or polyarteritis
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Goodpasture syndrome
- Heavy use of pain relievers, especially NSAIDs
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- IgA nephropathy
- Lupus nephritis
- Membranoproliferative GN
Common symptoms of glomerulonephritis are:
- Blood in the urine (dark, rust-colored, or brown urine)
- Foamy urine (due to excess protein in the urine)
- Swelling (edema) of the face, eyes, ankles, feet, legs, or abdomen
Symptoms may also include the following:
- Abdominal pain
- Blood in the vomit or stools
- Cough and shortness of breath
- Diarrhea
- Excessive urination
- Fever
- General ill feeling, fatigue, and loss of appetite
- Joint or muscle aches
- Nosebleed
The symptoms of chronic kidney disease may develop over time. Chronic renal failure symptoms may gradually develop.
Patients with Nephritis should avoid smoking, intake of alcohol, white bread, tea, coffee, fried foods, meat products, sugar cakes, pastries, condiments and syrups to get better result and to cure this disease.
Food to take:
- Grapes
They have been a superb pill for strident as well as ongoing nephritis. They retain a superb diuretic value upon reason of their tall essence of H2O as well as potassium salt. Their cost in kidney troubles similar to nephritis is softened by their low albumin as well as sodium chloride happy.
- Bananas
They are also effective for nephritis.Due to low protein, salt, and high carbohydrate content bananas are considered as suitable for nephritis patients.
- Avocados
They have been changed as a shave food in nephritis. The value of this ripened offspring arises from a vast unfeeling as well as small protein contents.
Food to limit/avoid:
- Decrease Salt Intake
A diet low in salt content should be followed if swelling of the hands or feet is present. Consuming no more than 1500mg of sodium a day. You can reduce the amount of sodium in your diet by avoiding processed foods, which tend to be high in sodium, and choosing fresh foods instead. In particular, canned foods, broths, soups, pretzels, chips and condiments typically contain the most sodium. Look for foods labeled “low sodium,” meaning it contains less than 140mg of sodium. Also avoid adding salt to foods. Just ¼ teaspoon of salt adds 600mg of sodium, which is almost half your daily allowance for salt.
- Limit Consumption of Protein
Protein consumption should be limited in those with proteinuria, a condition in which protein is present in the urine. Proteinuria is dangerous because it can damage the kidney and even lead to kidney failure. It also contributes to swelling of the body due to loss of proteins. Moderate protein intake of about one gram of protein per kilogram of body weight a day is recommended.
- Vitamin D Supplementation
Vitamin D supplementation may be required for patients with chronic membranous nephritis that is not responsive to treatment. Vitamin D is converted to its active form, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, in the kidney. In chronic kidney disease, the ability of the kidney to synthesize this vitamin is reduced, therefore supplementation is sometimes warranted. The recommended dietary allowance of vitamin D is 15mcg a day for adults ages 19 to 70 years and 20mcg a day for adults age 71 years and older.
- Reduce Fat and Cholesterol
A low fat, low cholesterol diet should be followed to avoid further elevation of cholesterol levels associated with membranous nephritis and to lower the risk of cardiovascular events. Dietary modification alone, however, will not lower your cholesterol as it is primarily caused by an increase in cholesterol synthesis by the liver and not because of diet. Saturated fats should be avoided as well as foods high in cholesterol. This includes foods such as eggs, whole milk, butter, fatty cuts of meats and fried foods. Your doctor may recommend a cholesterol lowering medication such as a statin to keep your cholesterol levels under control.
- Limit plant protein
Protein intake should depend on the condition of renal function. If patients with Nephritis suffer from Oliguria, Edema, Hypertension and Nitrogen qualitative retention, the intake of protein per day should be limited less than 20-40 grams so as to unburden the kidney, and avoid the deposition of non protein nitrogen in the body. In particular, the large amount of Fat moans alkali in the plant protein will worsen the intermediary metabolism of kidney. So we shouldn’t take beans and bean product as supplemental nutrition, such as soybean, mung bean, broad bean, soybean milk, and bean curd, etc.
- Avoid spicy condiments
Spicy condiments such as pepper, mustard, hot pepper, etc is bad for renal function. In addition, excessive aginomoto will make patients thirsty and drink more.
- Limit fluid volume
If patients with Chronic Nephritis have hypertension and edema, they should limit the fluid intake. The volume should be limited in the range of 1200-1500ml per day, 400ml drink and water in the food included. If the edema is serious, we should strictly limit the water intake.
Tips
Patients with Nephritis must avoid spinach, chocolate, cocoa and rhubarb because it contains oxalic acid in large quantities. Common salt also should be eliminated from the diet. Carrot juice is an effective remedy for nephritis. One portion of carrot juice, sundry with a tablespoon of sugar as well as a teaspoon of uninformed orange Juice, should be taken any day, first thing in a morning when stomach is empty.
References:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000484.htm
http://www.livestrong.com/article/361280-nutrition-diet-for-chronic-membranous-nephritis/
http://www.kidneycn.com/kidney-diseases/nephritis/nephritis-diet/1200.html
http://www.kidneycn.com/kidney-diseases/nephritis/nephritis-diet/824.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephritis
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