Health Care for Patients with IgA Nephropathy

Proper health care can do much good to patients with IgA Nephropathy. It has an assistant effect in slowing down the disease progression and preserving the remained renal function. Then what should the patients with IgA Nephropathy do in their daily life? As follows:

1. Quit smoking

Nicotine can contract blood vessels and cause high blood pressure, which can influence blood circulation. Therefore, the patients with IgA Nephropathy should give up smoking.

2. Drink more purified water

The patients with IgA Nephropathy should drink more purified water. Meanwhile, they should not drink drinks containing soda such as cola for it contains a large amount of phosphoric acid that can cause further damage to kidneys.

3. Protect liver

The immune complexes are cleared out of body by liver. Therefore, the patients with IgA Nephropathy should protect their liver very well. Therefore, the patients should limit or even not eat food that contains caffeine such as soda, cocoa, chocolate, tea and so on. In addition, the patients should not drink excessive alcohol, which can do harm to their livers and also can aggravate the disease progression.

4. Avoid taking medicines containing renal toxicity

Some common medicines contain much renal toxicity that can do much harm to kidneys such as ibuprofen, acetaminophenol and so on. Therefore, when you ask for prescription for other diseases, you should tell your doctors that you are an IgA Nephropathy suffer.

5. Take antioxidants

The renal damage is mainly caused by radicals that are released into body during inflammatory reaction. Antioxidants can help remove the radicals out of body thus reducing renal damage.


Heath care plays an important role in protecting renal function. However, the patients should only consider it as an assistant method. What should the patients with IgA Nephropathy firstly do is to receive effective treatments as early as possible.