Diet Plays a Crucial Role in Managing FSGS kidney disease

For most patients, FSGS kidney disease will spend 5-20 years to develop into Renal Failure. But for patients with serious illness condition, this period only need 2-3 years. Steroid or other immunosuppressive medicines can eliminate the proteinuria, and improve the renal function in a certain degree.Although, Diet Plays a Crucial Role in Managing FSGSAlthough a proper diet can not cure FSGS, it actually plays a crucial role in managing the disease. Therefore, all the patients should keep a tract of what they eat for some foods may trigger a relapse of FSGS.

①The patients with FSGS kidney disease should limit the intake of junk/tinned/fried foods because these foods contain much more of oil, spices and salt. If there is too much sodium in body, it will cause or aggravate retention of fluid and sodium thus leading to weight gain and swelling. What’s worse, the fluid can get infiltrated into lung thus making it difficult to breath.

② Some patients with FSGS may keep a misunderstanding on the protein consumption. As they loss a mass of protein in urine every day so they should increase the daily protein intake, they think they should increase the protein intake. Actually, high amount of proteins can produce more metabolic products which can put much strain on kidneys. Therefore, the patients with FSGS should reduce daily protein consumption to 0.6 grams/kg body weight. As the salt concentration of fast foods is as high as sea water, the patients should remove them from their diet completely.

③ If the potassium level is too high in blood, it will affect the cardiac muscle thus triggering irregular heart beat and even heart failure. Therefore, it is very essential for the patients with FSGS to avid the high-potassium foods. The common foods high in potassium are as follows: dates, beans, seeds, nuts, dried apricots, dried prunes and raisins, coca powder and chocolate, red chili powder and avocados.

The above are the main dietary principles for patients with FSGS kidney disease. The patients should always keep a kidney friendly diet not only while on treatment for relapse, but also when they are on complete remission. If so, they will be able to reduce the relapse of FSGS.

However, for different disease conditions, there is slight difference on their diets. If you want to get some personalized suggestions, you can consult us on line.

Know about fsgs kidney disease (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)

FSGS kidney disease (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis) is one of the most serious diseases of Nephrotic Syndrome. The disease is characterized as scarring affecting the filtering system (glomeruli) and resulting in the leakage of heavy protein in the urine. The kidney function decreases resulting from the disease, meanwhile, the medical condition usually progresses in the pretty rapid speed. Due to the rapid progression and serious consequences, plus, no effective treatments for the disease, make the disease hard to deal with.

Who is most likely to develop Focal Segmental Glomeruloslerosis?

Well, the disease strikes of all ages. By my experience, the disease attacks more often in black people than white ones, more frequent in men than in women. Apart from these risk factors, drug abuser, people with HIV and AIDS are more likely to suffer from the disease. Obesity, urinary tract infection and other reasons are also responsible for the occurrence of FSGS.

How is it treated?

It is pretty hard for us to treat a patient with unknown FSGS kidney disease, because we don’t know what kind of medications we should use. Therefore, most of the treatments for FSGS patients focus on dealing with their symptoms and some of its complications. Pills will be given to help control high blood pressure; diuretics are usually used to remove excess fluid so as to relieve the swelling. What’s more, medications help reduce their protein leakage will be prescribed too.

More specific treatments will be used to treat the disease since it is related to one’s immune system. Immunotherapy, under such circumstance, is right for the disease. We usually adopt blood purification techniques in the first place so as to clear out those immune complexes and other foreign matters. After favorable internal environment is created, then Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy will be adopted to regulate his own immune system fundamentally. Other treatments are going to be used too. If you are interested, ask our online doctor for details.

Why Choose Immunotherapy to Treat FSGS kidney disease

FSGS kidney disease is an intractable kidney disease and accounts for more and more cases of ESRF (End-stage Renal Failure). Due to the high mortality caused by the disease, Immunotherapy shows up as the novel treatment for dealing with the disease.

What are the types of FSGS kidney disease?

Primary and secondary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis are the two types. In primary, the disease could develop as an isolated kidney disease, while in secondary, the disease can be caused by other reasons.

Why isn’t dialysis or kidney transplantation the best choice?

Dialysis and kidney transplantation have certain disadvantages and make them not the best choices. Dialysis brings with certain side-effects and has no good to boost one’s kidney function. To make things worse, it contributes to worsen one’s remaining kidney function because patients with ESRD would rely too much on dialysis and abandon his remaining function. Since we have already known the reason of dialysis, how about kidney transplantation?

Patients with FSGS kidney disease are not the best candidates to perform transplantation. Why? This is because those patients suffer from a high recurrence rate even after the surgery. The specific reason of high recurrence rate is unexplained, but it is believed that the disease is sort of connected with abnormal immune system and immune complexes. The primary disease would come back again even if the surgery is done.

Why is Immunotherapy better than those two conventional treatments?

Immunotherapy is not just one single treatment; instead, it is a combo of multiple treatments, which can boost the therapeutic effects as much as possible. Most importantly, Immunotherapy treats the disease from its root cause—the abnormal immune system, immune complexes and overactive inflammatory reaction.

Since Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis is proven to be an immune kidney disease, then IgM and C3 alexin can be found by immunofluorescence. Some may ask what are IgM and C3. Those two are immune complexes deposit in kidneys and trigger overactive inflammatory reaction. The disease can be treated completely only if immune complexes and immune system are cleared out or corrected.

Why dialysis and kidney transplantation fail?

Dialysis could just remove micro-molecules but couldn’t discharge IgM and C3 from blood. The transplantation, on the other hand, just replace kidney without clearing those harmful substances out, which explains why most patients with FSGS would suffer from recurring.

Immunotherapy obtains not just scientific tests, but advanced blood purification technique. On the basis of a right lab results, blood purification will be given subsequently, which is good for further treatments.