For patients with IgA nephropathy, in addition to medications, non-medication** is also important, so we need to pay attention to our physical condition in real time and make corresponding lifestyle changes for the disease. How does it work?
1.Monitoring blood pressure: guidelines recommend that patients have a systolic blood pressure of 130 mmHg, as judged on a case-by-case basis. Therefore, it is necessary for patients to monitor their blood pressure at home so that they can detect problems in time and see a doctor in time to adjust their medications.
2.Change your lifestyle habits: If you have IgA nephropathy, you should pay attention to all aspects of your life and not let yourself go. For example, you need to lose weight, exercise moderately, quit smoking, and eat a low-salt diet (2-3 grams of salt per day), a high-quality low-protein diet (0. per kilogram of body weight per day).6 g - 08 grams of animal protein), etc.
3.Interventions for cardiovascular risk: lifestyle changes, such as the need to reduce lipid intake in patients with hyperlipidemia and, if necessary, to prescribe medications**.
In terms of specificity, TCM adopts different schemes according to the physique, clinical manifestations and pathological manifestations of different patients. For example, for patients with insufficient positive qi, some qi-tonifying drugs are used; For patients with blood stasis, some drugs are used to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; For patients with heavy dampness, use spleen-strengthening and dampness-reducing drugs. In addition, some patients will experience fatigue, backache, increased blood pressure, recurrent infections, etc., and external treatments such as auricular acupressure, Chinese herbal foot bath or external application can reduce the patient's symptoms while enhancing the efficacy of the decoction.