Why Hypertensive Nephropathy Patients Have Frequent Urination at night

For patient with hypertensive nephropathy, a common symptom in their body is frequent urination at night, which is a reflection of their kidney problem. Why patient has this symptom? How can this problem be treated?

Why hypertensive nephropathy patients have frequent urination at night?

For patient with hypertensive nephropathy, his high blood pressure can damage his blood vessels, and kidney mainly consists of blood vessels, so hypertension can damage patient’s kidney easily.

As a matter of fact, the damage caused by hypertension will firstly appear in kidney tubule, which has the function of reabsorption. About 99% fluid that is filtered by glomeruli will be reabsorbed by kidney tubules, and there is 1~2L fluid will be excreted out as urine. So if kidney tubules are damaged, a lot of fluid can not be reabsorbed back to blood and will be excreted as urine.

Because patient’s daily activity will need lots of fluid, and there is much fluid will be excreted out by sweating, urination will be the major way for patient to excrete his fluid at bight, which cause patient to have frequent urination at night.

How can frequent urination be treated?

This symptom is caused by the damage in kidney tubules caused by hypertension, so the treatment should aim at controlling patient’s hypertension and repairing the damage in patient’s kidney.

To control patient’s high blood pressure, diet regulation is an important aspect. Patient will need to reduce his sodium intake, because too much sodium in body can cause and aggravate patient’s hypertension. And patient will also need to reduce the intake of fat and cholesterol, because too much of them is also bad for patient’s blood vessel.

Medicines like ACEI, ARB, etc, are effective in controlling patient’s hypertension. Besides, taking regular exercise will be a great for patient to control and reduce his blood pressure.

On the other hand, to repair the damaged nephrons, Chinese medicine will be a good choice, because it has obvious effect in improving patient’s self-repairing ability by regulating patient’s body function systemically. Even so, western medicine is still needed, because it is a good help in controlling patient’s condition.

These above are the basic introduction about this problem that patient with hypertensive nephropathy often meet. In the end, if you need any help in dealing with hypertensive nephropathy, you can contact our online experts, and we can do our best to help you.

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