How Much Water Should One with Nephrotic Syndrome Drink A Day

How much water should one with Nephrotic Syndrome drink a day? Actually, the fluids intake depends on patient’s illness condition.

Why Nephrotic Syndrome patients need to limit water intake?

Usually, people with Nephrotic Syndrome need to limit water intake because of serious swelling symptom. Swelling also can be called edema or fluid retention and it can be caused by many conditions. In Nephrotic Syndrome, swelling symptom is caused by great loss of protein from urine. Therefore, the more protein in urine, the more serious the swelling is and also the less water patients should drink. In Nephrotic Syndrome, swelling can occur in many parts of patient’s body like eyelid, face, ankle,leg and feet. This symptom always occurs as the primary cause for patients to go to hospital for examination.

How much water should one with Nephrotic Syndrome drink a day?

Although the fluid intake differs from case to case for Nephrotic Syndrome patients, but they generally can follow a principle and that is they can drink 500 milliliter more water than the urine output of the day before. Kidneys have function to produce urine and patients have urine output which means their kidneys can help to discharge excessive fluids in body. Under such a condition, patients can drink some water to meet their physical demand. For these with strict fluid limitation, they can daub their lips with wet swab and this will help to remit their thirsty feeling. Also, in some severe cases, patients need to do dialysis to remove the excessive fluids in their body, and this is helpful for avoiding worsening their illness condition.

Water is the essential substance of our life, however, because of special illness condition, Nephrotic Syndrome patients can not drink as much as they want. In such a case, to improve the illness condition, repairing damaged glomerular filtration membrane is the essential measures as this can help to stop protein from being leaked out. As long as proteinuria is remitted, swelling symptom will be alleviated at the same time and also patients can drink more water.