How to Manage Lipid Disorders in Nephrotic Syndrome

Lipid disorder is one of the typical clinical manifestations of Nephrotic Syndrome and usually manifestated as hyperlipidemia which affect patient’s body progressively and can cause atherosis. Therefore, knowing how to manage lipid disorder is very beneficial for Nephrotic Syndrome.

Before learning the management of it, having a understand about how Nephrotic Syndrome cause lipid disorder is very necessary.

How does Nephrotic Syndrome cause lipid disorder?

Nephrotic Syndrome is an abnormal medical condition regarding kidney and is marked by loads of protein in urine. Protein is an essential nutrition of a healthy body and normally kept in body through kidney, so protein leak into urine when kidneys are damaged. This is the reason why kidney disease patients always can be founded to have protein in urine.

Nephrotic Syndrome causes great loss of protein from urine and in such a case, hypoproteinemia occurs. Proein is a must and when protein is in short supply, liver begin to secret necessary protein, during which lipid is produced as well. Usually, the lesser the protein in blood, the more protein is produced by liver and also the more lipid is secreted at the same time.

How to manage lipid disorder in Nephrotic Syndrome?

Therefore, effective management of lipid disorder should start from

Effective management of lipid disorder in Nephrotic Syndrome should start from the following several aspects:

1. Proper protein intake: Low protein intake can not meet the physical demand; however, high protein intake will cause heavy burden on kidney, leading to more protein in urine. Hence, a proper protein intake is very essential.(Exact protein intake depends on patient’s specific illness condition. If you want to learn more, you can consult our consultant online )

2. Avoid foods high in lipid: Eating too much foods high in lipid like oil, dairy products, nuts and meats will worsen lipid disorder. Therefore, trying to limit protein intake will be helpful for Nephrotic Syndrome patients to manage lipid disorder.

3. Improve kidney function to help the body make full use of protein: In Nephrotic Syndrome, liver produces protein and lipid as protein ingested by patients are lost from urine and fail to be used successfully. Therefore, only when kidney problem is treated fundamentally, can protein be used effectively and also can liver stop producing excess protein and lipid.