Tell your doctor promptly, if you think you have such an infection. Excessive obesity both raises blood pressure and increases insulin resistance. Keeping your weight at or below your recommended level helps in general, and the resultant blood pressure drop is good for your kidneys. Heart specialists have known for years that high levels of stress can be damaging. Excessive stress, driving up blood pressure, can harm the kidneys by raising fluid pressure, further straining already weakened filter networks.
Stress reduction is part of a healthy lifestyle.
The kidneys also maintain a fluid pressure of their own, the better to perform their cleansing job. Partially controlled by blood pressure, kidney fluid pressure is also dependent on the health of the organ. This can easily set up a vicious cycle, hastening complete destruction of kidney function. But there is treatment. The ACE inhibitors act directly to relax and open up weakened kidneys, lessening the strain and slowing, sometimes almost halting, the rate of failure.