How to Manage Weight Loss for FSGS Patients
My son has FSGS kidney disease, and now bubbly urine, high blood pressure, loss of appetite and tiredness occur. What's worse, he is suffering from obvious weight loss. We are looking for effective methods to manage his weight loss.
According to the characteristics of weight loss in FSGS, we invite kidney doctors from Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital to give out several advices. To obtain suitable methods for yourself, you can email to kidneyservice@hotmail.com.
Improve appetite
With deposits of waste products and toxins and electrolyte disorders in the gastrointestinal tract, patients may lose their desire to eat anything. Poor appetite makes FSGS patients lose their weight gradually. To supplement enough nutritions for the body, they can try some methods.
- Select foods you really enjoy and make them look attractive
- Try small portions of meals
- Eat when you want to eat and try softer food that don't need much chewing
- Drink some soup or nutritious drinks
Do gentle exercise regularly or before eating
Walking outdoors, Qigong, yoga, and some other types of gentle exercise can help not only strengthen patients' appetite but also stimulate FSGS patients' appetite. Then, patients can get a stronger body during gaining body weight.
Take alternative therapies to steroids or immunosuppressants
To manage FSGS, patients are always suggested to use steroids or immunosuppressants. These medications can affect patients' appetite. In view of this, patients can choose some therapies that can help treat FSGS and avoid side effects. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy abstracting from Chinese herbal plants can make effects on degrading immune complexes and extracellular matrix, anti-inflammation and improving the blood circulation in kidneys, so as to deal with glomerular sclerosis fundamentally.
If you are tormented by weight loss and FSGS, hopefully the above methods can make you get rid of these problems as soon as possible.
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