Diet Suggestions for Hypertensive Nephropathy Patients

Hypertensive nephropathy, or hypertensive kidney disease, refers to the kidney damage caused by long term unwell controlled high blood pressure. When patients get high blood pressure, they need to pay attention to their daily diet, which can help reduce the kidney burden and protect their kidneys.

Here are some of the diet suggestions for hypertensive nephropathy patients.

First: hypertensive nephropathy patients to quit bad habits diet.

Should be under the guidance of professional doctors to analyze your diet, change bad eating habits, restrict certain foods, in order to meet nutritional requirements, improve quality of life.

Second: hypertensive nephropathy patients to control calorie intake.

Hypertensive renal disease patients according to their own situation to supplement the heat setting, and generally to maintain ideal body weight as the standard. Because these patients often have lipid metabolism, so reducing fat intake not only helps control the heat, but also to improve metabolism.

Third: low-salt hypertensive kidney disease, high vitamin diet.

Hypertensive renal disease patients should control salt intake, to eat salted food; added food preservatives should eat. Adequate intake of vitamins, especially B vitamins, to regulate metabolism useful to take vitamin supplements if necessary.

Fourth: hypertensive nephropathy patients need to control the protein intake

high blood pressure kidney disease usually occurs impaired kidney function, but if protein intake is too high, will increase the burden on the kidneys, increased kidney damage; if insufficient intake , it will affect the nutrient supply of the human body. Therefore, patients should decide the amount of protein intake according to renal function: when no significant renal dysfunction, protein intake to about daily 50g; if serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen apparent abnormalities, protein intake should be reduced daily 20 ~ 40g.


Above are some of the diet suggestions for hypertensive nephropathy patients, and we hope this will be beneficial for their disease. if you still have any questions after reading, you can send e-mail to chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com, or you can also leave a message below. we will do our best to help you.