What Factors Can Lead to Swelling for FSGS Patients?

Swelling is the common symptom of FSGS, it really influence the life quality of patients a lot. How to manage it is the important for patients. Now, the proper factors are listed, and patients can have a good prevention and control through eliminate these factors.

1. Water and sodium retention

As we all know, kidneys are able to excrete excessive water and sodium from your body to keep them in a balanced state. However, when you are diagnosed with FSGS, your kidneys fail to remove excessive water or fluid our of your body. In this condition, water retention will present in your body. Excessive water in your body will move to the tissue space which contributes to swelling in your body. Besides, if you intake much sodium which can absorb water, you will also have swelling. Sodium intake means that you absorb excessive water again. In this way, sodium intake will worsen your swelling and burden your kidneys.

2. Heavy loss of protein

In normal case, protein is in blood as a solute, which is used to maintain the balance inside and outside the blood vessels. However, due to FSGS, lots of protein leaks into urine. As a result, osmotic pressure in blood vessels is changed. In order to keep balance, fluid oozes into surrounding tissues which causes swelling or edema.

Water or sodium retention and heavy loss of protein both contribute to swelling of FSGS patients. Knowing what causes their swelling, they can take effective treatment to control swelling so as to delay the progression of FSGS into renal failure. In their daily diet, they can choose some foods which are low sodium and avoid some high sodium foods such as pickles, bacon and processed foods. And limiting water intake is also helpful.

Diet changes can not treat swelling radically and they should treat this symptoms from root. That is to say, they should repair their injured kidney inherent cells and improve kidney function.


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