How edema patients should adjust your diet

For kidney disease patients, edema is a common symptom of them. Patients with mild symptoms may just be in the eye of the face and limbs, slight swelling, but edema in patients with severe, they can even pulmonary edema and ascites.
In addition to receiving treatment, patients in the life of their own health conditioning is also very important. The effect of diet on the health of patients is obvious, then for edema patients, they should also how to adjust their diet yet.
1 to reduce salt intake 
One important reason is that the patient's body edema sodium and water retention. Sodium plays in the regulation of the osmotic pressure of the extracellular fluid is very important role in vivo, if the sodium content is excessive, the water within the cell will be more easily flow under the influence of osmotic pressure outside the cell, thus exacerbating edema. The main source of sodium is salt intake on us, so reducing salt intake is very important for the control of edema
For healthy people, the daily salt intake is generally good 3 to 5 grams. However, if the patient has significant edema, can be appropriately adjusted on this basis.
2 control water intake 
The water is beneficial for patients with kidney disease, but for obvious edema patients, you need to control the water intake. Because when the kidneys can not be discharged when the body of water accumulated in the patient's body, it will form edema.
General For obvious edema patients, the total intake of water yesterday asking them to add 500 milliliters of urine.
3 increased potassium intake 
Since K has the role of adjusting the intracellular fluid. Therefore, patients without potassium metabolism disorders, the appropriate increase in the intake of potassium can increase their intracellular fluid osmolarity, which can alleviate their symptoms of edema.
4 tea 
Many tea has a diuretic effect, so the tea for edema in patients who have swelling. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine dandelion, plantain, Polyporus, Poria, etc. also have a diuretic effect. But whether it is tea or references decoction all need expert advice, because for some patients, casually drinking these may bring a lot of drawbacks.