Patients with nephrotic syndrome may experience edema

Kidney disease can present a variety of symptoms, among which edema is the most common one and is also a major symptom of kidney disease patients. There are many causes of edema, and long-term edema can also cause many diseases, bringing great pain and health risks to patients. Let’s talk about how to solve the edema problem in patients with nephrotic syndrome.

1. Proteinuria can cause nephrotic syndrome edema.

Clinical analysis: Proteinuria is the direct cause of edema in nephrotic syndrome. When patients with nephrotic syndrome experience massive proteinuria, the protein concentration in the blood will decrease, resulting in a decrease in intravascular plasma colloid osmotic pressure. The colloid osmotic pressure of plasma decreases. The water ratio in the blood of patients with nephrotic syndrome is greater than the water ratio in the tissues, so the water in the blood will penetrate into the gaps in the tissues, and the water in the tissues will penetrate more and more, and accumulate more and more. , eventually leading to edema in the human body.

2. Edema itself will aggravate nephrotic syndrome edema.

If it is not controlled during the period of massive proteinuria, edema will worsen. The reason is that the edema and body cavity fluid accumulation formed during the period of massive proteinuria itself will aggravate the edema. Edema and effusion in the cavity will cause insufficient blood volume in the human body and insufficient effective circulating blood flow, causing aldosterone, a substance in the blood, to increase. Increased aldosterone can lead to water and sodium retention, leading to increased edema. High degree of edema will affect the stability of human vital signs and lead to life-threatening conditions.

Therefore, for the treatment of edema in nephrotic syndrome, it is far from enough to just use diuretics and other drugs for symptomatic treatment. What patients need is not to fundamentally and effectively treat the disease, but to fundamentally block the process of renal fibrosis, repair the damaged intrinsic cells of the kidney, and restore the original tissue structure of the damaged kidney, so as to effectively treat the disease and truly achieve "Treat the disease first, and the good disease will go away"!

Experts point out: When patients with nephrotic syndrome find edema, in addition to drug intervention, it is best to use dietary therapy and physical therapy, which will have relatively few side effects on patients with nephrotic syndrome. There is one more point that needs to be pointed out. Even after kidney disease patients develop edema, necessary exercise is necessary.