Most patients with Diabetic Nephropathy experience mild to severe edema on the body. But they don’t understand the reason, why edema forms in Diabetic Nephropathy? Here we’d like to talk about the formation of edema in Diabetic Nephropathy.

As we have already known that kidney disease is a progressive loss of kidney function. And it is also a process of fibrosis, which leads to glomerulosclerosis. Glomerular consists of massive blood capillaries which guarantee the filtration ability of glomeruli. The decrease of GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is the reduction of glomerular filtration area, and which can be the result of glomerulosclerosis. Then, how glomerulosclerosis occurs?

Will polycystic kidney not reoccur after micro-chinese medicine osmotherapy? At present, there are two kinds of treatments of polycystic kidney. One is the top decompression surgery, and the other is paracentesis. These two treatments are just effective to symptoms but not to root causes. This kind of treatment just resolves the big cysts but makes room for those small cysts.

Proteinuria means the presence of an excess of serum proteins in the urine (proteinuria >1.5 g/d). The protein in the urine often causes the urine to become foamy. However, does proteinuria mean kidney disease?

Dialysis is an important replacement therapy for the patients with End Stage Renal Failure and it plays a crucial role in maintaining the patients’ life. However, can dialysis totally replace the native kidneys to maintain the normal physiological activities or improve the kidney function?

Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease is a kind of autosomal dominant inheritance diseases. Most cases (more than 95%) are forming cysts bilaterally and they do not present symptoms until they are around 40 years old. Cysts in other organs such as spleen and pancreas can also be seen. The cysts can enlarge the kidneys which can be 4-5 times larger than the normal ones. Then, how to treat Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease?
1. General treatment

Edema is a common symptom of Kidney Disease. In some cases, the patients may have systemic edema, which may injure their normal heart and lungs’ normal function. Therefore, proper nursing managements of patients with edema are very important.

1. For the patients with Kidney Disease, they firstly have edema around eyelids, faces and other loose organizations and then spread to systemic edema. The patients with Nephrotic Syndrome always are complicated with hydrothorax and ascetic fluid. If you have these symptoms, you should consider that you may have Kidney Disease.

Symptoms may start to become present in Stage 3, such as:
1. Fatigue: Feeling tired is common for patients with CKD and is often caused by anemia.
2. Swelling: The kidneys may lose ability to control how much fluid stays in the body. A patient may notice swelling in their lower legs, hands or face around the eyes. With too much fluid someone could even feel short of breath.