To prevent high blood pressure from damaging the kidneys, 2 antihypertensive methods should be mastered as soon as possible

Hypertension is one of the most common metabolic diseases now. In addition to the elderly who have become a high-risk group due to their long-term eating habits, age, and physical fitness, some people are also "targeted" at a young age.

The harm caused by elevated blood pressure to the body is long-term. Therefore, in order to reduce the more harm caused by blood pressure, most patients need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time or even for life. As for the harm of high blood pressure, more people think that it will cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis and stroke, but little attention is paid to the health of the kidneys.

Hypertensive nephropathy is a typical complication of hypertension. Long-term elevated blood pressure will also damage the renal arteries, resulting in intrarenal arterial hypertension, poor blood circulation, and water and sodium retention, resulting in renal cell fibrosis and even sclerosis, which damages renal function. In severe cases, it may even develop into renal failure. Therefore, patients with a history of hypertension for more than 10 years must not neglect the monitoring and protection of renal function.

Kidney disease is relatively "silent" in the early stage. If you have these signals, you should be alert to whether there is something wrong with the kidneys?

1. Always get up at night and increase nocturia

Under normal circumstances, urination means that if you drink more water during the day, you will excrete more. If you drink less water at night, you will excrete less. Generally, it is normal to wake up 1 or 2 times at night. If you exceed this number of times, you should pay attention. If the urine output at night is even more than that during the day, it can be considered that the renal function is damaged.

After high blood pressure causes kidney damage, the filtering function of the kidneys declines, and excess "wastes" cannot be excreted in time during the day, so they begin to "work overtime" at night, resulting in increased nocturia.

2. Edema of both lower extremities, water and sodium retention

Hypertensive patients themselves have a water-sodium imbalance, and the kidneys, as an important organ for regulating water and electrolyte balance, once damaged, will aggravate the water-sodium imbalance, lead to water and sodium retention, and cause edema. Generally, the lower extremities are more obvious. Presented as pitting edema. Impaired renal function can also lead to increased blood pressure, which in turn leads to hormonal renal failure, creating a vicious cycle.

3. There are "small" bubbles in the urine

Impaired renal function will cause the glomerular filtration rate and renal tubular reabsorption function of renal tissue to decrease at the same time, resulting in the leakage of macromolecular protein into the urine, resulting in proteinuria. In the early stage, the leakage of protein is relatively light, and microalbuminuria will be formed. With the progress of renal function, it will develop into massive proteinuria.

In fact, not all high blood pressure will develop kidney disease, long-term uncontrolled blood pressure is the "culprit" of kidney damage. Therefore, to prevent renal failure or other complications, it is the key to keep blood pressure stable for a long time. Decompression should start from two aspects, one of which is indispensable:

1. Manage the "two meals" well, and check the source and process

One insisted on taking medicine. When blood pressure cannot be recovered only by controlling diet, weight loss, etc., for greater damage, antihypertensive drugs must be taken. At present, antihypertensive drugs include long-acting and short-acting antihypertensive drugs according to time, long-acting antihypertensive drugs such as dipine sustained-release tablets, some puli drugs such as sartans such as losartan, and short-acting antihypertensive drugs such as nifedipine Dipine, Nimodipine, Captopril, etc. Different drugs are taken at different times and at different doses. It is more efficient to take antihypertensive drugs on time and according to the amount.

Second, turn off a good diet. Now some people's elevated blood pressure has a lot to do with unhealthy eating habits. Consuming too much food with high salt, high fat and high cholesterol can easily lead to metabolic diseases such as obesity and high blood pressure. For hypertensive patients, special attention should be paid to a low-salt diet, which should not exceed 3g per day. In addition, many patients also have high blood lipids and high blood sugar, and they should also pay attention to the intake of high-sugar and high-fat foods. The most important thing is to improve the diet structure and habits. More vegetables on the table, less meat, more cooking, less take-out or eating in restaurants, control the amount, and eat less and more meals, which is more beneficial to the stability of blood pressure.

2. Appropriate exercise is beneficial to enhance metabolism

Hypertensive patients often have obesity and high blood lipids. In addition to unhealthy diet and lack of exercise, more calories cannot be consumed, which increases the burden on blood vessels and kidney metabolism, and also leads to increased blood pressure. Therefore, patients with high blood pressure must strengthen exercise and change their previous lazy practices. For example, daily walking, running, swimming, shuttlecock kicking, aerobics and other sports can be selected, and at least half an hour a day is more effective in controlling blood pressure.

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