What should Patients Pay Attention to after the Kidney Transplant

What should patients notice on diet?

There are many limitations for uremia patients. Due to the serious kidney damage, the improper diet can aggravate damage, which is unfavourable for the recovery. Then regarding the diet of uremia patients who have received the kidney transplantation, what should they notice?

If patients have high uric acid, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia or hypertension, they should make a proper dietary arrangement, following the instruction of their doctors, because the long-term high uric acid, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension will cause more complications, even can shorten survival time of transplant kidney.

After the kidney transplant operation, patient should take more rest.

Enough rest is quite important. Because of the operation and hospitalization, patients are easily tired. But once the renal function restore, the energy will recover soon. In the early time after the operation, taking a walk is a good choice. Of course, patients also can do some slight homework.

What kind of sport is suitable for patients after the operation?

The physical condition of many patients has been improved a lot by activities. The immune system of human body needs a balance state, which can keep our body healthy. The purpose of taking anti-rejection medicines is to make the body and transplant kidney in a balance state. On this basis, to enhance physical ability is helpful for the long-term survival of patients.

What are the risk factors which can influence the transplant kidney lifetime?

At present, the main problems which threaten the survival time of kidney transplant patients are medicine toxicity, cardiovascular disease, viral infection, exclusive reaction. Among them, the most trouble one is infection. According to the global date, 50% of patients will get the cytomegalovirus infection after the operation.