Caution Children Nephritis Patients

Nephritis in children is one of children's disease, drug treatment, while some habits and eating habits parents should pay special attention. When the children suffering from nephritis, control the amount of salt must pay special attention. So as to better control the disease, to avoid the deterioration of nephritis. The following content can give parents some guidance.

Acute nephritis, often advocated control of sodium into the body, because when nephritis due to abnormal kidney function natriuresis, glomerular filtration rate is poor, difficult to discharge into the body after sodium and retention, causing edema.

In addition, more aldosterone secretion nephritis, renal tubular sodium potassium security enhancements, prompting Shuinazhuliu. When the salt absorbed into the bloodstream into the body, not only increase the burden on the kidneys, and the plasma penetration increased permeability, high osmotic pressure is absorbent, increased blood volume, cardiac burden. Sodium ions can enter the tissue through the capillary wall, is a tissue fluid osmotic pressure, and part of the water is transferred to the organization, the increase in interstitial water, adding to the swelling.

So to avoid salt, but it should be noted that when nephritis, long-term impact not only avoid salt appetite, but also does not help the recovery of kidney disease, growth and development in children with systemic harmful to health, and even can cause hyponatremia syndrome.

Pediatric acute nephritis have heart failure, hypertension, edema, oliguria should also avoid salt, to prevent increased blood volume, high blood pressure and swelling worse. Until the swelling subsided, normal urine output, blood pressure returned to normal can be as low-salt diet, no more than 2 grams per day, and then continue to observe the condition Richao improved gradually over the normal diet.

When severe nephritis edema, hypertension significantly decreased urine output, or have heart involvement, in addition to avoid salt, but also limit the amount of protein and fluid into the condition of patients, based diet with carbohydrates and fats.


Children lively, fast body on behalf of the vent, so prefer the taste of heavier foods. So as the parents must help children to good relations, to the children with a scientific diet. Reasonable control salt intake, so let the child's condition worsened. Is not conducive to the treatment of nephritis. Will lead to kidney failure, the consequences could be disastrous.