Friday 20 July 2012

Nursing Care for Diabetic nephropathy


Care is the basis for the treatment of diabetes and its complications, is also true for patients with diabetic nephropathy, patients with diabetic nephropathy how to care it?
1, for patients with diabetic nephropathy, should adhere to the low protein diet, low-protein diet can reduce the glomerular filtration rate, can also reduce urinary protein excretion.
Two patients with diabetic nephropathy to keep the skin clean and free from infection. Ground, bathing, changing clothes, dry skin, you can wipe a point of moisturizing cream.
3, no high blood pressure, edema is not obvious, no renal dysfunction, little protein in patients with diabetic nephropathy may be appropriate to participate in physical exercise to enhance physical fitness, prevention of infection; edema, high blood pressure patients or renal insufficiency patients, should be bed rest, keep warm.
4, the diet should be light, heavy diet of salted fish, bacon, salt is not edible. In the cold winter, many people like to eat hot pot, warm the body, but in patients with diabetic nephropathy is not suitable to eat spicy hot pot. As well as in cold weather favorable for beef and mutton, diabetic nephropathy in patients unfit for human consumption.
5, more than to breathe the fresh air, help to help the psychological care of patients with diabetic nephropathy.
Patients with diabetic nephropathy should ban smoking, mainly because of high blood pressure, high-protein, high blood sugar diet, smoking is the main reason that can aggravate diabetic nephropathy.