Care of patients with renal failure

- Monitoring urine, its quantity and color, and informing the doctor of any changes in the color, quantity, or turbidity of the urine.

- Conducting urea tests.

- Monitoring the bladder to prevent urine accumulation because accumulation in the bladder leads to stone formation.

- Monitoring and treating blood pressure because chronic hypertension is considered one of the causes of kidney failure.

- Administering the patient a quantity of fluids no less than 2500 cm³/day.

- The speed of treating circulatory collapse.

- Treatment for any kidney infections.

- Discovering and breaking down stones.

- We must prevent medications that are excreted by the kidneys because this leads to further destruction of kidney cells.

- Calculate the intake and output and inform the doctor.

- The patient's meal should be rich in carbohydrates and the amount of protein in the meals should be reduced. A normal person needs 1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, while a kidney failure patient needs 0.6 grams per kilogram.

- Reducing salt in meals.

As for patients with kidney failure, the following should be taken into consideration:

If the amount of fluid output is low, we must do the following:

1. Reducing fluids for the patient.

2. As for the patient's food, it should contain large amounts of carbohydrates, with reduced protein and a complete ban on table salt in the patient's meals.

3. The patient's weight should be monitored daily, and if any increase is observed, tests should be conducted to determine the levels of creatinine, sodium, and potassium in the blood.

4. For a dialysis patient, viral tests must be conducted before the dialysis to determine if they have hepatitis or AIDS.

5. We must allocate a special dialysis machine for hepatitis patients to prevent the spread of the disease.

6. The dialysis machine must be sterilized after each patient.

7. Heparin should be administered to prevent blood clotting.

Giving the patient meal advice.