What should the kidney transplant patients to pay attention to? Many kidney failure patients want to find a new kidney for themselves. But do you know what should you pay attention to after kidney transplant? There are many patients think that after kidney transplant their condition would become better and do not need take medicine anymore. That is the wrong thought. After kidney transplant, because the body has a strong rejection of allogeneic kidney transplantation, patients need to take anti-rejection drugs for whole life. The anti-rejection drugs would reduce patients’ immune system and the infection of bacteria, viruses and other elements will always threaten the health of the patient. So after treatments, patients need pay attention to two things: Appropriate application of anti-rejection and anti-infection drugs.
Anti-infection
Infection is a normal complication of kidney transplant, in the three months after kidney transplant, patients need take much anti-rejection drugs so that their immune system would in the most worse stage. Many kinds of bacteria and viruses would enter patients’ bodies and cause the infection. Because the low immune system and the low sensitivity of antibiotic, once patients appear the infection symptom, the condition would lose control.
Prevent infection to do the following:
(1). Check the concentration of anti-rejection drugs in blood regularly.
(2). Avoid public places.
(3). Pay attention to food hygiene.
(4). Keep warm.
(5). If the body temperature increase to 38℃, patients need see a doctor timely.
Anti-rejection
After 6 months after surgery, patients could back to work as a normal person but cannot work tired. Now patients need pay attention to chronic rejection problem. The symptoms of chronic rejection include high creatinine level, high blood pressure, high body temperature and sudden decrease in urine volume.
For prevention of chronic rejection, patients need to do the following:
(1). Follow the doctor’s advice and must not reduce the drugs by selves.
(2). Avoid fatigue, oversleep, cold and infection.
(3). Avoid the drugs which harmful to patients.
(4). Check the condition regularly.
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