Cause and Treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy Patients with Serious Swelling

Diabetic Nephropathy is one of main cause of kidney failure. And it will cause many complication. Clinically, diabetic nephropathy is characterized by a progressive increase in proteinuria and decline in GFR, hypertension, and a high risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. And there are many Diabetic Nephropathy patients may suffer from serious swelling. Why this disease will cause this symptoms. And how to treat it ?  This article will give you the answer.

Cause of Diabetic Nephropathy patients with serious swelling

1. High blood sugar level can cause damage to the immune system, as time goes by, the permeability of capillary wall will be increased, in this way, extra fluid within the plasma will flow into the interstitial space.
2. Due to kidney damage, renal hypoxic-ischemic state may come into being. In the meantime, the abnormal renin-angiotensin system will lead to the reabsorption of fluid and sodium in the renal tubular.

3. With the progression of diabetic kidney disease, more and more protein will leak into urine. Gradually, hypoproteinemia will occur. Due to reduced plasma colloid pressure, extracellular fluid will build up in the tissue space, resulting in swelling.

Treatment for  Diabetic Nephropathy patients with serious swelling  

In our Hospital, we have researched Immunotherapy, which is on the basis of the pathological mechanism of diabetes and kidney disease. Immunotherapy is a combination of both Chinese herbs and western medicine, which can be divided into 6 steps including immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune blocking, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. After these, we believe that edema in lower limbs for diabetic nephropathy can also disappear accordingly.