1. establish the confidence of fighting disease: chronic nephritis duration long, easy to break out repeatedly, patients should be encouraged to strengthen their confidence to fight disease, closely cooperate with treatment, strive for an early recovery.
2. rest and work: once the diagnosis of patients with chronic nephritis, in the early stages, regardless of symptom severity, should give priority to with rest, active treatment, observation patient's condition on a regular basis. Such as improved, edema, fade, returned to normal or near normal blood pressure, urinary protein and red blood cell and all kinds of tube type trace, kidney function is stable, then after 3 months can begin to work in the light, avoid strong manual labor, prevent the happening of the respiratory tract and urinary tract infections. Activity should slowly increase gradually, in order to promote physical recovery. Whoever there is blood in the urine, a large number of proteinuria, edema, or high blood pressure, or patients with progressive renal function decline, all should stay in bed, active treatment.
3. diet: acute, chronic nephritis edema or high blood pressure should limit salt intake, daily 2 ~ 4 g is advisable. Highly edema should be controlled below 2 g per day, and all kinds of pickle all should diet, stay edema subsided after sodium salt and then gradually increased. In addition to significant edema water quantity should not be restricted. Low plasma protein and nitrogen free qualitative hematic disease should eat high protein diet, daily protein should be in 60 ~ 80 g or higher. Appear when nitrogen qualitative hematic disease, should limit the total protein intake, 40 g per day here, supply high quality protein, rich in essential amino acid total calories should be around 0.146 kJ/kg body weight, diet supplement nutrition and vitamins, fruits and vegetables are unlimited.
4. disable the renal toxicity of drugs.