Home Remedies for Kidney Shrinkage
Is there any chance to make shrinking kidneys go back to normal? Do home remedies work for kidney shrinkage patients? With these two questions, we will introduce more about shrunken kidneys and its home remedies today.
Kidney Shrinkage
Kidney shrinkage describes one process that kidney size declines abnormally and kidney functioning tissues lose gradually. Many disorders can cause this problem. If you have this disorder, you must be recommended to take some medical therapies to save your kidneys. In fact, some home remedies indeed can support medical therapies to treat shrinking kidneys.
What home remedies can help achieve this goal?
As we all know, kidneys are excretory organs, and their main function is to remove waste products and toxins from the body. From this point, effective home remedies should be able to reduce the burden on kidneys, protect remaining kidney functioning tissues or even help repair damaged kidney cells. According to these requirements, several home remedies are helpful.
1. Follow a kidney-friendly diet plan
Foods are essential in our daily life and most foods’ metabolic waste products are discharged via kidneys, so our home remedies begin from modifying patients’ diet plan. When kidneys are damaged, a low-sodium and low-protein diet is a must. Besides, patients may also need to control the intake of fluid, sugar, potassium, phosphorus and so on.
2. Do gentle exercise regularly
Regular exercise can help strong patients’ bone and improve their ability to fight against various diseases like high blood pressure, which one common cause of kidney shrinkage. For example, having a walk for half an hour three times one week, so you can find a great difference about your health condition.
3. Take Hot Compress Therapy
Hot Compress Therapy is one externally applied method that is easy to handle. This therapy can improve blood circulation all over the body as well as kidneys, so as to provide more blood and oxygen for inherent kidney cells. This is a great help to recover shrinking kidneys.
4. Do Foot Bath
As introduced by doctors of TCM, every organ has a corresponding acupoint under feet, so doing foot bath can help stimulate these acupoints and boost patients’ overall health condition. This is another method to improve blood circulation throughout the body.
The words here are limited, so we can’t list all helpful home remedies for kidney shrinkage one by one. If you want to learn more about them, you can send email to kidneyservice@hotmail.com. Therefore, we can send a detailed introduction of these remedies in detail.
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