Can Diabetes Cause Nephrotic Syndrome in Adult

Nephrotic Syndrome usually leads to glomerular dysfunction causing proteinuria without compromising GFR. The onset of Nephrotic Syndrome usually reveals some underlying diseases. In some cases, diabetes and Nephrotic Syndrome indeed coexist in the same person. Can diabetes cause Nephrotic Syndrome in adult? If can, what treatment is effective for Nephrotic Syndrome and diabetes?

Can diabetes cause Nephrotic Syndrome?

At present, diabetes has been the leading cause of kidney disease. It shows that 30%-40% of people with type 1 diabetes develop Diabetic Nephropathy, while about 20% of people with type 2 diabetes develop Diabetic Nephropathy.

In the early stage, one obvious symptom is that protein in urine is a little higher than the normal. However, with time, urinary protein excretion increases, and glomeruli show irreversible damage. At this time, Nephrotic Syndrome occurs easily. According to clinical research, 10% of kidney disease due to diabetes presents Nephrotic Syndrome with edema, severe proteinuria and hypercholesteremia.

How to treat Nephrotic Syndrome caused by diabetes?

The first line of treatment in Nephrotic Syndrome is to treat the underlying cause. If your Nephrotic Syndrome is the result of diabetes, well control of high blood sugar should be the first step of the whole treatment, and then try to repair glomerular damage.

Diabetes management: A low-salt and sugarfree diet plays an important role in diabetes treatment. For example, you had better avoid candy, coke, honey, sweet, foods high in starch, etc. For people whose diabetes has progressed to kidney disease, limiting the intake of protein is also necessary. The personalized diet should depend on patients’ illness condition. Therefore, if you have your recent report in hand, you can send it to kidneycares@hotmail.com, so our dietitian can help you make a scientific diet plan.

In addition, doing moderate exercise is also helpful to control high blood sugar. Yoga, walking, jogging, swimming and Tai Chi may be your case. If the above methods can’t work every well, you need to take some medicines with doctors’ guidance.

Nephrotic Syndrome treatment: Immunotherapy, compared with steroid and immunosuppressive agents presents an outstanding superiority on not only easing patients’ symptoms without recurrence but also repairing the damaged glomeruli. In recent years, more and more patients get great relief from this therapy. Hopefully, you can be the next beneficial owner.