Thursday, June 6, 2013

Edema Appears,what should patients do


Kidney is the main organ to discharge water from body. When people get kidney disease, water cannot be eduction body outside, inside the storage trade in the body, known as renal edema. Edema were the most common symptoms of kidney disease, light person eyelid and facial edema, the person that weigh anasarca, and pleural effusion or ascites. The degree of edema can be light or heavy, no one could see light person edema, weight gain or only slightly swelling eyelid in the morning. The person that weigh can whole body edema, even with chest and abdominal cavity effusion, cause weight gain tens of kilograms (severe edema). The most common should be refers to pitting edema, use finger to press down and you will see a depressed.
When appear edema,patients should also pay attention to diets on the points:
Limited water, sodium, and protein intake
1, protein intake
Severe edema associated with hypoalbuminemia patients, can give 1 g of protein per kilogram of body weight daily, more than 60% of high quality protein, mild-to-moderate edema daily per kilogram of body weight 0.5 ~ o. 6 g protein, protein and there must be adequate caloric intake, daily 125.5 ~ 146.4 kJ/kg (30 ~ 35 kcal/kg).
2, water, salt
Mild edema, urine volume & gt; 1000 ml/d, need not too much water, sodium restricted within the 3 g/d, including sodium foods and beverages. Serious edema with oliguria daily water intake should be limited within the 1000 ml, giving salt-free diet (as sodium content in every day & lt; 700 mg).