What should patients pay attention to when urine protein is high?

If you often feel weak in your limbs for a period of time, and have to stop to rest after walking for a while, and feel as if your feet can't move, and sometimes you feel back pain, you must go to the hospital for testing. It is very likely that your urine protein is a little high. Go back and pay more attention to your diet. So what should you pay attention to if your urine protein is high?

1. Human urine does not contain protein or only contains trace amounts of protein. However, when the kidneys are diseased, the protein that circulates in the blood and flows through the kidneys "slips through the net" due to the reduced filtering function of the kidneys. Protein leaks into the urine and is excreted from the urethra, forming proteinuria. The higher the urine protein, the worse the kidney filtration function, which is an important indicator to measure kidney function.

2. Guidance: Generally speaking, the patient’s diet must adhere to the principles of high-quality low-protein, low-salt, low-fat, and low-sugar diet. The intake of key protein is that a completely low-protein diet cannot meet the patient's nutritional and body needs, so the patient must also consume a certain amount of high-quality protein. Plant protein and soy products are not included in this range. Therefore, patients with kidney disease must limit the intake of soy products, eat less or not eat them. Foods with high protein content are: meat, eggs, and milk. It is better to use meat with less fat. The fat content of four-legged animals such as pork and beef is higher than that of two-legged animals such as chicken and duck, while the fat content of fish (legless) is lower than that of chicken, duck and other animals, so fish protein is the best.

3. A low-salt, low-protein diet. It is not advisable to eat eggs, bananas, peppers, and vegetables rich in volatile oils (such as leeks, fennel, etc.). During the human body's metabolism, their spicy ingredients are often excreted through the kidneys, and these spicy ingredients have varying degrees of stimulating effects on renal parenchymal cells, which can affect kidney function in severe cases.

4. Guidance: In addition to paying attention to diet, you should also choose drug treatment suitable for the patient. In order to use Western medicine to treat proteinuria caused by chronic nephritis, a renal biopsy is required to determine which medicine is suitable. Therefore, do not blindly use Western medicine for chronic nephritis. Chinese patent medicine is currently more widely used in clinical practice. Among the many Chinese patent medicines for chronic nephritis, Chinese patent medicine for chronic nephritis of liver and kidney yin deficiency type is the most widely applicable and relatively safe chronic nephritis medicine among Chinese medicines for chronic nephritis.