Notices for Patients with IgA Nephropathy

After you are diagnosed with IgA Nephropathy, you should change your previous life style and develop new one. In this way, it will be able to slow down the disease progression and decrease the incidence of Renal Failure. The following are some notices for the patients with IgA Kidney Disease.

1. Stop smoking

Once you are diagnosed with IgA Nephropathy, you should quit smoking at once. The nicotine in cigarette can thicken the blood vessel wall thus causing high blood pressure. As the patients with IgA Nephropathy often have blood circulation disorder, high blood pressure can aggravate it thus accelerating disease progression.

2. Increase the purified water intake

If you are IgA Nephropathy suffer, you should drink more purified water. However, you should avoid drinking soda drinks such as cola. As those drinks contain a large amount of phosphoric acid, high intake can aggravate renal damage.

3. Protect liver

The immune complexes are removed from blood by liver. Therefore, you should protect your liver very well. You should limit and even avoid eating foods that contain caffeine. In addition, the patients should drink alcohol moderately. Excessive alcohol intake can do much harm to liver and decreasing the excretion of immune complexes.

4. Take antioxidants

The renal damage is mainly caused by radicals that are released into body during inflammatory reaction. Antioxidants can help remove the radicals out of body thus reducing renal damage.

Heath care plays an important role in protecting renal function. However, the patients should only consider it as an assistant method. What should the patients with IgA Nephropathy firstly do is to receive effective treatments as early as possible.

5. Keep away from medicines with renal toxicity

Some common medicines may contain renal toxicity that can do much harm to kidneys. In order to avoid renal toxicity, you should tell your doctor you have IgA Nephropathy so that he/ she will avoid prescribing medicines with renal toxicity. Also, you are inhibited to take medicines without your doctor’s guidance.

If can receive effective treatment in time together with follow the above notices, you will be able to slow down the progression of IgA Nephropathy and avoid it from progressing into Renal Failure.

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