Causes and Treatment of Swelling in FSGS

FSGS patients are running a high risk for swelling symptom which not only affect their physical beauty, but also worsen their illness condition. For this reason, learning the causes and treatment of swelling is very necessary for FSGS patients.

Causes of swelling in FSGS

Swelling also can be called edema and is the manifestation of fluid retention in the body. For FSGS patients, welling occurs easily in the part with loose tissues like eyelid, legs, ankles and testis for male. In FSGS cases, swelling occurs easily in the following several conditions:

1. Retention of sodium and water

Kidney plays the role of discharging excess sodium and fluid. When kidney function is impaired by FSGS, lots of sodium and water build up in the blood, leading to swelling.

2. Severe loss of protein in urine

When a great deal of protein is lost from urine, plasma osmotic pressure decreases which can cause swelling as well.

Treatment of swelling in FSGS

If you are a FSGS patient with serious swelling, the following tips will be helpful for you to bring this symptom under control:

1. Strict fluid intake

Severe swelling ask FSGS patients to control their fluid intake strictly, and usually they need to drink 500 milliliter more than the urine volume the day before.

2. Eat less salt

Salt is rich in sodium and high salt intake will aggravate swelling symptom.

3. Avoid vegetables and fruits high in sodium like wakame, spinage, banana, celery, broccoli, sweet potatoes, potatoes and kiwifruit and so on.

4. Diuretics

Sometimes, diuretics can be used to treat swelling and with different illness condition, FSGS patients need to take different diuretics.

5. Treat FSGS as a whole

FSGS causes kidney damages and impairs kidney function. It is the root cause of swelling symptom, so only when FSGS is treated effectively, can swelling be alleviated radically. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a new usage of Chinese herbs and shows great treatment effects in treating FSGS. Therefore, if you are a FSGS patient and have no find any effective treatment method, you can have a try about it.