No matter during the treatment period or the convalescence, patients should
pay attention to personal health-care and nursing interventions. For health-care
and nursing intervention are related to the prognosis conditions directly.
During the scorching summer, what should the PKD patients pay attention to?
First, nursing intervention of skin: it is very important for patients to
prevent skin infection, decubitus and other related complications in summer. For
the decrease of renal function, toxin will accumulate in human body, which can
stimulate skin. Patients usually are accompanied with skin itching and the
problem of insomnia. Once the skin is scrathed, it is easily infected. So
patients should often clean skin with warm water to keep it clean, but soap and
alchhol are prohibited.
Second,reasonable diets: as for diets, patients should adopt reasonable diets
according to the illness condition and under the doctors directions. For
example, as for patients with renal insufficiency, they should take in food
containing high-calorie and high-quality protein, and restrain the amount of
water to maintain the balance of water in human body.
Third, nursing intervention of buccal: keep your mouth clean in morning and
evening and after meals. Besides, patients should also remove bad breath, reduce
sickness and avoid bacteria and mycetes.
Forth, guarantee a good rest of both mind and body: as for patients with
hypertension caused by kidney disease, they should measure their blood pressure
regularly and increase resting time according to blood pressure.
Hope these nursing interventions are helpful for PKD patients and their
family members. The key points of PKD treatment are blocking the process of
renal fibrosis, repairing the damaged renal inherent cells and protecting renal
function from further damage. Just the enlargement of cysts can be controlled,
patients with PKD completely can lead a normal life.
