AVOID IRRITATING THE KIDNEYS

To avoid irritating the kidneys

a.) Safeguard against excessive exercise or too hard physical work-lifting or straining efforts appear to be especially bad. Your occupation may be such that you cannot entirely control this element, but you can at least improve matters by resting as much as possible and avoiding unnecessary muscular effort. Moderate exercise, like walking, does no harm in mild case.

b.) Avoid catching cold by wearing clothing suitable to the climate or season of year, by avoiding draughts, or by not getting chilled or wet, by keeping the feet dry by not allowing living rooms to become too hot or too cold. Keep in the open air and sunshine all you can and sleep with the bedroom windows open.

c.) Prevent any undue nervous strain, excitement, exercise mental activity, too close application to work, and emotional excitement.

d.) Cut out all alcohol in any form. The popular notion that gin is beneficial has no scientific support.

e.) Avoid certain articles of food, such as onions, radishes, garlic, asparagus, and especially pepper, Tabasco, and rich spices.

f.) Local infections, such as bad teeth, infected ears, and nasal cavities, bad tonsils, chronic abscesses anywhere in the body, appear to damage the kidneys through poisons absorbed into the blood. This conditions should be sought for and treated by competent physicians or dentists.

g.) drink water freely, but not to excess, and preferably not not too much during meals. The alkaline waters, such as Vichy, or lemonade, are beneficial. A pinch of baking soda (as much as can be heaped on a dime) in a glass of water in the morning on arising is highly recommended.

h.) Person's with advanced Bright's Disease unquestionably do better in temperate, equable, balmy climates such as in Florida or South California, and off course the mild case improve more rapidly in such climates.