How to Protect Renal Function for Patients with Chronic Renal Insufficiency

Once patients have Chronic Renal Insufficiency, they worry about their renal function will decline and even develops into End Stage Renal Failure. Therefore, how to protect their remained renal function becomes very important for patients with Chronic Renal Insufficiency. Then what should the patients do? As follows:

1.The patients with chronic renal insufficiency should treat the primary disease that cause renal damage and the complications of kidney diseases. For example, they should control their blood pressure within normal range and treat Diabetes effectively and timely and so on. Sometimes, if the patients can treat the primary diseases effectively, their renal function can be improved greatly and even recover normal.

2. The patients with chronic renal insufficiency should pay more attention to the control of their blood pressure. Generally speaking, they should keep the blood pressure within 130/80mmHg. Many researches have showed that if their blood pressure is higher than the target level, it can cause renal function to decline fast. When choosing antihypertensive medicines, the patients should avoid those medicines that can cause renal damage. Moreover, they should take long-acting medicines, which can decline the fluctuation of blood pressure effectively.

3. The patients with chronic renal insufficiency should keep the generalized principle: low protein and low salt in their diet. High salt intake can cause direct damage to kidneys as well as cause high blood pressure and heart failure. Therefore, the patients should keep its intake within 3 grams of salt. However, there are also exceptional cases. Some patients limit their salt intake too strictly, which can cause hyponatremia, especially the elders. Therefore, the patients should adjust their salt intake properly based on their examination results.

In addition, high protein intake can produce much blood urea nitrogen, which can cause much burden to kidneys. Therefore, the patients should limit their protein intake properly and increase the high quality protein such as fish, lean meat, and egg white and so on.


If the patients with chronic renal insufficiency can take preventive measures and receive effective treatment in time, they will be able to protect their renal function very well.