Why Patients With FSGS Often Have Foams In Urine
FSGS refers to focal segmental glomerular sclerosis, which is a common kidney disease and often cause nephrotic syndrome and kidney failure. Patients with FSGS can have many obvious symptoms in their body, and it is very common for them to have foams in their urine.
Why patients with FSGS have foams in urine?
Foams in urine can be caused by many factors, but for patients with FSGS, it often refers to foamy urine which is caused by proteinuria.
Protein is an important nutrient which should be kept in body, but for patients with kidney disease, their disease can increase the permeability of glomerular filtration membrane. Glomerular filtration membrane can keep the nutrients in patient’s body, and filtrate out the metabolic wastes through urine. So, when its permeability is increased, lots of substances including protein will leak out, Which will cause proteinuria.
Is foam urine dangerous?
For patients with kidney disease, if their foamy urine is caused by proteinuria, that will be very dangerous.
Protein is a macromolecular substance, but when it leak out, it will aggravate the damage in glomerular mesangial area, and that will also cause damage in other parts of nephron, which reduce patient’s kidney function obviously.
Thereby, it is important for FSGS patients to take measures to control their foamy urine.
How to treat foamy urine?
To treat foamy urine caused by proteinuria, the inflammatory reaction in kidney should be stopped, and the protein leaking should be stopped. To reach this purpose, medicines like ARB, ACEI, immunosuppressor, cytotoxic drugs and glucocorticoid, etc, are very effective, but the shortage is patient’s condition is easy to relapse.
Besides, to solve this problem fundamentally, repairing patient’s kidney damage and improving kidney function is necessary, and chinese medicine will be a perfect choice to achieve that goal, because Chinese medicine is famous for its effect of promoting patient’s self-repairing ability by treating disease systemically. On the other hand, western medicine has obvious effect in controlling patient’s condition, while Chinese medicine needs a long time to have obvious effect. So, in the treatment of Chinese medicine, it is also necessary for patients to accept the adjuvant treatment of western medicine.
Patients should deal with kidney disease carefully, because kidney disease is so dangerous for our body health. And if you have any trouble in dealing with kidney disease, you can leave us a message, and we will do our best to help you.
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