How Can I Lower My High BUN Level
For patients with kidney disease, a significant thing is to lower their high BUN level down. While, how can patient achieve this purpose?
What is BUN?
BUN refers to blood urea nitrogen, which is a major metabolic product of protein and it should be filtrated out by kidney.
In fact, high BUN can be caused by many factors, but for patients with kidney disease, that is usually caused by kidney damage.
What does high BUN indicate?
As we have said, renal patient’s high BUN is mainly caused by kidney damage. However, our kidney has strong metabolic ability and strong compensation, and if there is more than half kidney function is normal, patient will not have high BUN.
Thereby, that is also to say, if patient finds he has high BUN, that will indicate his kidney damage si already very severe.
How can high BUN be lowered?
In fact, many measures can be taken for patient to lower his high BUN level.
1.Diet regulation:
To lower BUN, patient should regulate his diet according to his condition.
Protein is the source of BUN, so it is necessary for patient to avoid take much excess protein. And there are many other points should be cared by patients for protecting their kidney health, like the intake of sodium, potassium, calcium, vitamin, calory,etc.
2. Exercise:
Taking appropriate exercise regularly is very beneficial for patient with kidney disease, because that is very helpful for patient’s cardiovascular health and immunity, and that is also helpful for improving patient’s kidney function, which will help reducing high BUN.
3. Good emotion:
Patients should keep good emotion, which is very beneficial for them to conquer their problem. In fact, bad emotion can lower patient’s immunity, and the shortage of confidence is an important factor which lead patient to quit hope and treatment.
4. Right treatment:
Treatments that combine Chinese medicine and western medicine will a perfect to treat kidney disease and improve patient’s kidney function. Because western medicine is good at controlling patient’s condition, while Chinese medicine is good at improving patient’s kidney function by regulating patient’s body function systemically. And each advantage of them is also the other’s disadvantage, while their combination can reach the effect of controlling their condition and improving their kidney function.
Therapies such as Blood Polluted Therapy and Micro-Chimnese Medicine Osmotherapy are namely the treatments that combine western and traditional Chinese medicine.
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