How to Increase Shrunken Kidney to Normal
Kidney shrinkage is commonly caused by end stage kidney disease, renal artery stenosis, renal dysplasia, etc. When kidneys shrink severely, they will be unable to filter blood normally. Thereby, patients hope to take some remedies to increase their shrunken kidneys to normal.
According to the characteristics of shrunken kidneys, we firstly give out several general methods to improve patients' overall health condition. If you want to get some special suggestions suitable for yourself, you can send your illness description or medical test to kidneyservice@hotmail.com or kidneyservice@hotmail.com. We are glad to help you in detail.
1. Arrange a scientific diet plan
Although no special food can treat shrunken kidneys effectively, a healthy diet plan is indeed helpful to manage patients' symptoms and complications to some extent. To reduce the burden on kidneys, patients are required to follow a low-sodium and low-protein diet plan. In severe cases, they also need to limit the intake of potassium and phosphorus.
2. Well management of kidney shrinkage symptoms and complications
In addition to the underlying cause, proteinuria, high blood pressure, and some other problems may also accelerate the progression of kidney disease. If you have one of these problems, you should check with your doctor to take medications and treatments timely.
3. Do gentle exercise regularly
Patients with kidney shrinkage may feel fatigue or weakness easily. Doing gentle exercise moderately can not only help control patients' high blood pressure but also improve patients' immune ability, strengthen their body, and so on.
4. Take effective treatments to restore impaired kidney cells
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is one effective therapy to improve the kidney condition through preserving the remaining kidney functioning tissues and repairing damaged kidney cells. As these cells recover to work normally, patients' kidney size can be increased to some extent. However, at present, it is still impossible to increase shrunk kidneys to normal.
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