It is requisite for salt in our daily life. Without salt, which is mainly NaCl, food feels tasteless and our physical function can also be affected. Long term restriction to salt will cause hyponatrimia, patients present fatigue, weakness and lassitude etc. However, excessive salt intake does not conform to physical requirement as well. High salt intake is an essential factor to cause hypertension. For patients with Nephropathy, it is more crucial to control salt intake properly.Micro Chinese Medicine Therapy for Stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy for Kidney Failure
Sodium ions mainly exist in extracellular fluid; it is the basic component to sustain crystal osmotic pressure of extracellular fluid. And this is quite influential to keep fluid balance in cells and organs. Sodium and water is a twin sister, the body needs more water to keep balance when concentration of sodium ions in body increases. In addition, discharges of water and sodium increase through physical adjustment, so as to maintain body's sodium balance.
Kidney can not regulate sodium properly when it gets ill. Sodium secretion meets with obstruction. Due to sodium increase, water retention occurs correspondingly. In this case, hypertension and edema usually appear. Thus, edema and hypertension are the main clinical indicators for nephritic patients to control salt intake. There are two circumstances which need to control salt intake.Herbal Medicine and Kidney Disease Herbal Medicine Treats Kidney Disease
First, salt free diet Can Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Reduce Proteinuria
Salt is prohibited when patients have apparent edema(Swelling and Kidney Disease) and blood pressure(High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease) increase, even food with salt are also unavailable, like soda steamed bread, salty cookie, baking soda, soy sauce etc. this applies to acute Nephritis at the early stage; acute attack of chronic nephritis, primary renal syndrome; patients with chronic renal failure, accompanying with middle and severe hypertension and edema are also not allowed to eat those food. Free salt diet might affect patients’ appetite, which can be resolved to improve appetite by taking free salt soy or condiment like sugar, vinegar, ginger, garlic etc. Time to prohibit salt depends on the specific circumstance. Apparent edema and hypertension is the standard of free salt diet, patients can eat food with salt if edema and hypertension are not obvious or disappear basically.Chinese Medicine Inunction to Treat Kidney Failure Hot Compress Therapy for Kidney Disease
Second, low salt diet
This adapts to patients with slight edema(Bilateral Pedal Edema with Diabetic Nephropathy), hypertension and vanishing edema and hypertension. Patients with acute nephritis, chronic nephritis and renal syndrome recovery, chronic renal failure without edema and hypertension can eat low salt diet. Low salt diet requires patients absorb 3-5g salt each day and also low sodium salt is edible. During the period of low salt, salted egg, salted duck egg and pickled vegetable are not allowed.Medicated Bath for Kidney Disease
It is unnecessary to strictly control salt intake if patients have no edema, hypertension or no repetition for vanished edema and hypertension, but not too much salt intake is advisable. Mild diet is reasonable, and patients can take more vegetable and fruit. For patients taking diuretic, it is noticeable to check serum sodium, and controlling salt strictly is needed once serum sodium rises.
