How to treat renal disease patients’ edema
Edema is a common symptom to patients with kidney disease, especially for patients with nephrotic syndrome. In fact, patients with kidney disease need to have a good understanding about their disease, and it is also necessary for them to know how to treat edema.
How does edema form?
Edema is a major complication of kidney disease, and it is mainly caused by the large amount loss of protein and the retention of water and sodium, which are caused by kidney insufficiency. The loss of protein will reduce the osmotic pressure of blood, which will lead to the fluid in blood vessels flowing into the tissue space. On the other hand, the loss of water from blood can cause the decrease of blood volume, which can promote the reabsorption of water and sodium, and edema will be aggravated further.
How to treat edema?
so to treat patients’ edema, the first thing that should be done is to reduce the water intake. The recommended water intake is patients’ urine amount of yesterday plus 500ml. Besides, patients should reduce the salt intake in their diet. The recommended amount of salt intake for healthy people is 6~8g/d, and we can get about 3g from the foods we take. Thereby, patients should take about 3~5g salt per day. If patients’ edema is too serious, patients can add no salt in their diet.
In the treatment, diuretic should be used, and it is very useful to improve patients’ condition. Besides, the root of edema is the damage in kidney, so to improve this condition, the most effective method is to improve patients’ kidney condition. To treat patients’ kidney disease, the complications should be controlled, and the causes of kidney damage should also be treated, such purpura, lupus, etc, because this can aggravate patients’ condition severely. Western medicine is good at treating symptom singly, so it is often used in controlling patients’ condition. While Chinese medicine is good at treat patients’ disease systematically, and it can promote patients’ self-repairing ability, which is beneficial to improve kidney condition.
Besides, patients’ life habits and diet is important in the protection of kidney function, so patients should also improve these aspects based on their doctors’ advices.
In the end, edema is not very hard to treat, if patients’ take right actions, their condition must will be improved.
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