Daily Care for Patients with Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis is a kidney disorder caused by systemic lupus erythematosus. As the disease is very likely to relapse, the daily care is very important for the patients with Lupus Nephritis.

1. Prevent infections: The patients with Lupus Nephritis often use steroids, immunosuppressive agents and other hormones to restrain the abnormal immune reactions. However, those medicines also can impair the healthy immunity thus causing immunity to decline. As a result, the external virus, bacteria is very early to invade into body thus leading to infections. We all know that even if a mild infection may trigger Lupus Nephritis again. Therefore, the patients with Lupus Nephritis should keep healthy daily care to prevent infections as possible as they can.

2. Take proper exercise: Proper exercise can improve blood circulation and strengthen heart and liver functions as well as keep the tenacity of bones and muscles. However, as the patients with Lupus Nephritis usually have arthritis, they should take proper exercise like jogging, bicycling and avoid excessive exercise.

3. Avoid sunshine: The patients with Lupus Nephritis are sensitive to sunshine. If they are exposed to sunlight, it can aggravate their disease. Therefore, the patients with Lupus Nephritis should avoid sunshine as possible as they can.

4. Keep a healthy diet: A healthy diet plays an important role in slowing down Lupus Nephritis progression. Generally speaking, the patients should keep a low protein and salt diet. However, as the disease conditions vary with different patients, the patients should make their personalized diet based on their lab results under their doctors' guidance.

5. Keep a good mood: Lupus Nephritis is a chronic disease. Many patients still do not have any improvement after frequent treatments. Therefore, many patients will lose the confidence in the treatment of the disease. This can discount the treatment effect and aggravate the disease. So the patients themselves should keep optimistic about their disease and other family members should pay more care to them. If so, they will be able to get a better therapeutic effect.


The above article has introduced the daily care for the patients with Lupus Nephritis. If you want to know more information like the treatment of Lupus Nephritis and other aspects, you can email to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.