Drink water properly: Drinking water can help the body excrete metabolic waste and reduce the concentration of toxic substances in the kidneys, thus avoiding kidney damage. But should drink less carbonated beverages, because the caffeine contained in the drinks, often lead to a rise in blood pressure, and high blood pressure, which is one of the important factors that hurt the kidneys. Therefore, you should try to avoid drinking too many beverages, to plain water instead. Proper drinking, should pay attention to several principles: for patients with renal insufficiency without edema, should pay attention to drink more water, increase the amount of urine, “drink more and more discharge”, “water is more important than medicine”. And for patients with edema kidney disease, attention should be paid to daily weight monitoring (every morning wearing the same clothes, the same state to do), record 24-hour urine volume, the amount of intake for out, that is, according to this formula to determine the amount of water intake, yesterday’s urine volume + 500ml, to weight loss (at least than increase) for the purpose. In addition, the so-called water intake, including the sum of drinking water, drinking porridge, infusion and Chinese medicine tonics, etc. Song Chun-dong, Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine