| When you have a pyeloniphritis disease-you supposed to keep a special diet. If you keep this diet than you can heal this disease.One of the most basic principles in this diet is not to refuse any fluids. Drink a lot of fluids-not less than two liters per day. This kind of "wash-off" of the kidneys you must have, in order for the infection to leave. The germs will be washed off with the urine, so that the chances of developing an infectious process is less. If you are using water from a sink- before making any drinks you must filter it through a hand-filter. It is better to drink a blackberry or a cranberry juice,rather than a regular water. These berries have a natural anti-septic that will not let other germs to develop.It is also useful to drink other juices, fruit mixes or a fruit punch, mineral water, filtration from other berries and flowers. The following tea that you have to make has an antibacterial action: you must take the leaves of redberries,cranberry leaves, parsley seeds, fruit of caraway seeds,and the root of salad-cut it in the equal parts. Put 400ML of boiling water on a table spoon of this mix and warm it up in a water bath for ten minutes, then let it stay warmly for two hours and filter it. Drink 1/2 of a glass - four times a day. The tincture of all herbs that fight Pyeloniphritis is recommended to drink while its warm , 10-30 minutes before you eat. It is not recommended to drink coffee, cocoa and alcoholic beverages when you have pyeloniphritis. It is also not recommended to limit yourself in the intake of food. You need to eat certain food few times a day- with a small amounts of portions. Also, you must not take food that contains ether oil. You should not eat any spicy and irritable food, such as; marinades, salty foods, sauce and pasta,mustard,peppers, fresh onions and garlic. It is not recommended to eat a lot of sour food, such as; unripened fruits, gooseberries and red berries. A fried marinated meat has an irritable action towards the kidney, also over-cooked chicken soup, sausage and a gammon. It is a better to eat a cooked meat. It is also recommended to include to a diet a water melons, melons and pumpkin- since that has an ability to make you urinate a lot. So, that an infection will come out better. It is also useful to eat meals that include fruits and vegetables, which have a big source of vitamins and calcium. For example, apples, apricots, raisins and potatoes. Also, during the pyeloniphritis you need special type of products that will raise your intestine functions.It is better to include in your diet a whole-wheat bread, beetroots and carrots. Seeds raise your immune system and make your organism stronger. It is also, very often recommended in a diet during pyeloniphritis to use the principle of varying the food. In a beginning it is recommended, the basic food for 2-3 days that will make your urine acidic. These foods are: bread, milk products, meat and eggs. Afterwards, it is recommended to keep a diet for 2-3 days that add an alkali to the urine: vegetables, potatoes and milk. Whenever, there is a variety of sour and an alkali reaction, then you bacteria cannot develop- because it is very uncomfortable for the bacteria. Sometimes,pyeloniphritis could give a susceptibility with hypertension , swelling and renal insufficiency. In these cases, it is better to limit the amounts of fluid intake. Ask your doctor how much of fluids you could drink. The limits are dependent from the level of changes in a kidney functions and arterial pressure. You need to eat in a special manner if pyeloniphritis is combined with urolithiasis. When the phosphates exposed in an urine, you need to refuse from the milk and other milk products. Black bread, oatmeal and buckwheat, cabbage, pumpkin and plums are very useful under any types of urolithiasis. |