Experts on Diabetes hold that it can make people with Diabetes live as
normally as common people to follow the doctor’s advice, be careful with diet
and keep exercising, although there are no methods to cure Diabetes at present.
However，if patients pay less attention to their diet and monitoring of blood
sugar, Diabetes will cause irreversible damage to many organs including
kidneys
1. Diabetic Nephropathy is likely to directly shorten patient’s lifetime
‘At present, Diabetes with high rate of morbidity is a chronic disease of
which complications do harm to human body like kidney disease caused by
capillary influenced by Diabetes that will directly shorten patient’s lifetime’
says an expert. For the onset of Diabetic Nephropathy is slow and patients can
not feel ailing during the progression of condition, once symptoms can be found,
kidney has been hurt, causing many problems like decline of kidney function,
Uremia, congestive heart failure, hypoproteinemia etc. Now, dialysis is needed
to lengthen life for some patients and other patients will choose kidney
transplantation to maintain life which have great effects on patients’ mental
status and quality of life. So kidney disease caused by Diabetes seriously
threatens patient’s health, which should not be neglected.
2. Control the blood sugar with many ways
It is the best method to prevent the condition ahead of the occurrence of
complications for Diabetes patients. The blood sugar should be under control and
this state should last for a long term in order to keep patients away from the
complications.
Patients should control blood sugar with many ways. Firstly, patients should
restrict the amount of diet scientifically and reasonably, not eating too much
or having too much food containing proteins in case of aggravating the burden of
kidney. Secondly, Patients should also eat less salt. Food containing
high-quality protein is good for patient’s health like eggs, milk, lean meat and
fish etc. Meanwhile, aerobic exercise should be persisted which is beneficial to
the circulation of organs. In addition, Diabetes patients need to notice the
amount of water intake in order to avoid the urinary tract infection and reduce
the attack rate of Pyelonephritis so that they should drink boiled water or
green tea more often.
3. Control blood sugar, blood pressure and blood fat together.
Patients should control blood pressure besides controlling the blood sugar
for 60 percent of Diabetes patients have high blood pressure which will damage
the orgns seriously. It is optimal to control blood pressure under 125/80
mmHg.
Besides restricting the amounts of salt, patients should persist to take
medicine that not only controls blood pressure within the proper scope but also
controls blood pressure of patients with Diabetic kidney disease. Some patients
are used to taking some hypotensor, not willing to change other medicine. In
fact, choosing hypotensor should consider not only the reducing of blood
pressure but also the protection of fragile organs especially your kidney.
It is also very crucial to control blood fat for Diabetes patients. It is a
factor to make kidney disease worsen if the low density lipoprotein in body
increases. So blood fat should be under control.
4. High risk group for Diabetic Nephropathy needs monitoring.
Diabetes patients with kidney disease family history belong to the high risk
group. They should be aware of checking the urine proteins regulate especially
the testing for microalbuminuria. At the same time it is good method to prevent
and treat Diabetic Nephropathy to notice their blood pressure and blood fat.
There are also many Diabetes patients with microalbuminuria in ward. Especially
patients with Diabetes for several years should watch out for the condition.
Don’t be worried about it. If Diabetes can be found and treated early,
complications can be prevented in great degree and life is normal as what it
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