How to Treat Leg Swelling in Kidney Failure

Kidney failure is a condition that nearly all of kidney function has lost and leg swelling occurs easily. The swollen leg may make patients walk difficultly. Therefore, to treat leg swelling in kidney failure has a big significance in improving their overall health and life quality.

The root cause of leg swelling in kidney failure

The kidneys’ main job is to purify blood including removal of excessive fluid, minerals, wastes and toxins. When large part of kidney function is lost, these substances will build up in the body and cause some healthy problems. Leg swelling is due to water and sodium retention in the body or heavy leakage of protein in the urine. From this analysis, we can know water and sodium retention or protein leakage is the direct cause of leg swelling in kidney failure, while low kidney function is the root cause.

How to treat leg swelling in kidney failure?

A healthy diet is very necessary to help treat leg swelling, because a correct treatment is able to reduce the water and sodium retention and ease protein leakage. Generally, a low-salt and low-protein diet and moderate amount of water is recommended for kidney failure patients who have leg swelling.

In some cases, some certain diuretic is also needed to ease patients’ swelling through increasing urine volume, if their swelling is due to water or sodium retention and they still have urine. Some fruits and vegetables have a good function of diuretic. Ask the kidney experts online to know these foods in detail. In some other cases, patients’ leg swelling is caused by a heavy loss of protein in the urine, so steroid may be used to remit their proteinuria and swelling.

The above methods indeed can help treat leg swelling in kidney failure, but they can do little to the damaged kidney function, that is to say, the root cause is still not solved. Therefore, a natural treatment that helps to improve patients’ kidney function should also be sought. Fortunately, it is possible to achieve this at present.