What Should People do after Getting Glomerulonephritis?

To be honest, depending on a good doctor to treat glomerulonephritis is certainly needed for people who are suffering from glomerulonephritis. However, doctors are always busy, so learning some caring information is also necessary for people who are suffering from this disease.
Besides the limit on water and salt, protein intake is also mostly concerned by many people. For people who are having nephrotic syndrome, but no renal insufficiency, more protein is needed. Normally, it should not be less than 1gram per kilogram body weight in 24 hours. However, one people kidney function become lower, they have to limit protein intake. According to the information on World Kidney Disease Conference, it is easy to damage glomeruli and fasten the progress of getting Uremia if the protein intake is excessive than renal discharging ability. For people who are suffering from renal insufficiency, protein intake should be limit in 30 to 40 gram per day so as to reduce the burden to kidney. In order to supply enough nutrition to our body, high quality protein is more important, like egg, milk, lean meat, etc. One egg or 35g lean meat is equal to 6 gram protein. People can roughly calculate their protein intake like this. Besides, it is not good to take too much vegetable protein with high non-essential amino acid, such as beans or bean products. In some research, researchers also insist that the progress of Uremia can be delayed greatly by strict diet plan.
People with glomerulonephritis should be surely avoid renal toxic medicine, especially gentamicin, or X ray contrast agent.
What's more, glomerulonephritis is also easily complicated with infection which can worsen the kidney condition. Therefore, preventing infection is very important. Once people gets infection, cefradine capsules 0.25 gram for time per day is always suggested for continuing 2 to 3 days, but it is much better to find doctor for suggestions because doctors know patients condition more clearly. This is used to eliminate the bacterium and virus which may become to antigens gets into blood.
People with glomerulonephritis should also have urine protein test and GFR test. Once there is sign of getting worse, proper treatment should be taken as early as possible. For example, prednisone is effective to control the acute progression in glomerulonephritis, or even to save the life.
Of course, specialized doctors will pay more attention on it, but if patient know these information clearly, it is also much more helpful for them.