Patient's question:
Nephropathy with hematuria and proteinuria for two yearsDoctor's answer:
Urine, proteinuria are important indicators for assessing the severity of kidney disease and its prognosis, but patients with kidney disease should not be blinded by one leaf. While the numbers are important, what matters more is whether the condition truly improves. As long as the condition is controlled, the values of occult blood and proteinuria will naturally decrease.Recommendations:
1. Sea cucumber and rice porridge
- Take 100g of glutinous rice and 50g of shredded water-boiled sea cucumber. Cook them together into porridge, adding a little scallion, ginger, and salt for seasoning.
- This formula tonifies the kidneys, enriches essence, nourishes yin, and replenishes blood. It is suitable for conditions like weakness due to kidney deficiency and yin deficiency, such as lower back and knee soreness, insomnia, and night sweats.
2. Goji berry and pig kidney porridge
- Take 100g of glutinous rice, 10g of goji berries, 1 pig kidney, and a little scallion, ginger, and salt. Remove the membrane from the pig kidney, chop it, and cook it with glutinous rice.
- This formula tonifies kidney yin and yang, consolidates essence, and strengthens the lower back. It is suitable for lower back and knee pain, weakness in the legs and feet, dizziness, and tinnitus due to kidney deficiency and dual deficiency of yin and yang.
3. Cistanche and goat kidney porridge
- Take 100g of glutinous rice, 10g of cistanche, and 1 goat kidney. Remove the membrane from the goat kidney, chop it, and cook it with glutinous rice.
- This formula tonifies the kidneys and yang, and promotes the flow of essence and urination. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with kidney yang deficiency, such as aversion to cold, lower back and knee cold pain, frequent urination, nocturia, and constipation.
4. Deer horn glue and rice porridge
- Take 100g of glutinous rice and 6g of deer horn glue. Cook the glutinous rice into porridge, then crush the deer horn glue and dissolve it into the hot porridge, adding an appropriate amount of sugar.
- This formula tonifies kidney yang and enriches essence and blood. It is suitable for conditions like emaciation, lower back and knee soreness and pain,, and impotence due to insufficient kidney yang and deficiency of essence and blood.
Dietary Recommendations and Restrictions
1. Patients with kidney disease should avoid spicy, irritating foods and seafood, such as fried foods, goose, rooster, pork head, hairtail, and yellow croaker. They should also quit smoking and drinking. Those with significant edema should eat more radishes, winter melon, watermelon, black beans, and loofah. Those with hematuria should eat lotus root, white peony root, peanuts, and eggplants. Those with hypertension should eat celery, spinach, black fungus, bean sprouts, and corn.
2. Patients with kidney deficiency should consume turtle meat, pigeon meat, pork, turtle, gecko, lotus seeds, pine nuts, chrysanthemum greens, leeks, royal jelly, reishi, bird's nest, collagen, placenta, rehmannia, and cistanche.
Lifestyle Care
Avoid soy products and seafood in the diet. Eat less greasy, high-fat foods and maintain a low-salt diet. Avoid overexertion and get adequate rest. It is best to avoid traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) herbs and opt for synthetic TCM instead.