Pyelonephritis diet and care

Acute pyelonephritis food taboos
Diet should eat everything savory spices and foods containing protein, should eat some vitamin C in fruits and vegetables.
Chronic pyelonephritis food taboos
Light and easily digestible diet should eat low-salt or salt-free diet. In recent years that chronic renal insufficiency appropriate to add the essential amino acids may improve the outcome
Pyelonephritis care
"Pyelonephritis" is the inflammation of the urinary tract by a bacterial infection caused by direct. Bacteria can rise from the bladder through the urethra into the ureter and renal pelvis.
"Pyelonephritis" points "acute pyelonephritis" and two kinds of "chronic pyelonephritis." Without timely treatment of acute and chronic can be converted; chronic treatment or rest due to other factors, may also cause acute attacks. The disease is more common in women, especially women of childbearing age. Clinical manifestations: rapid onset, fever, chills, back pain, urinary urgency and urinary disease. Routine examination often with a lot of pus in the urine, white blood cells, red blood cells, proteinuria rare. Urine culture can be found in bacteria.

Care points:
     1, to encourage patients to drink more water, increased urine output.
     2, regular urine tests and training, to master the disease.
     3, to pay attention to the sexual life of women, the menstrual period, pregnancy health.
     4, that is to pay attention to the baby during diaper cleaning sterile.
     5, such as the treatment of patients with fever but still no rebate or elevated, there is a carry or accompanied by severe back pain and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Home Care points:

1. Emphasis on maternal and child health, women should keep the vulva clean, caution tub. Menstrual period, pregnancy and infant pay special attention to hygiene to prevent ascending infection. Women with acute pyelonephritis, within one year after treatment should contraception to avoid pregnancy and worse.
2. Acute pyelonephritis or acute exacerbation of chronic pyelonephritis should drink more water, the daily intake of 2500 ml or more. Aim to increase urine output, promote bacterial toxins and inflammatory secretions discharged. At the same time pay attention to strengthening nutrition and physical exercise.
3. Observe whether the fever and urinary tract irritation. Chronic pyelonephritis late, watch for symptoms of kidney damage, such as high blood pressure, anemia, uremia.
4. After drug treatment, watch for side effects of drugs, such as oral medications cause nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and other reactions after asking a doctor before use other drugs.
5. If you need to do a urine culture should be prepared to do the following
① should be deactivated before using antibiotics or antibiotics 5 days stay in urine specimens.
② morning to collect urine. To ensure that urine remaining in the bladder intramuscular 6 to 8 hours.
③ before leaving urine specimen to fully clean the perineum, keeping the urine is not contaminated. When you want to stay in urine specimens placed in a sterile test tube urine.
④ stay good urine specimens for culture and want to count the number of colonies within two hours, in order to avoid bacteria growth, the impact of the judgment result.
If special circumstances require urine refrigerated at 4C below the refrigerator.
6. Special attention is paid not to urinary tract catheterization or equipment checks, to prevent infection.

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