Daily health care for FSGS patient

When people are attacked by FSGS, a kind of kidney disease. Patients need a healthy lifestyle to control the development of the disease. Then what kinds of things patients can do to prevent the further kidney. This article will have a detailed introduction about the daily health care for FSGS patients.

The common symptoms of Focal Segmental Glomerular Sclerosis is nephrotic syndrome, including large amount of proteinuria, severe edema, hyperlipemia and hypoproteinemia. If the patients can be regularly treated and cared for, it is possible to get the condition controlled and gain a clinical recovery. During the treatment, patients should be closely observed, and nursed in the following aspects.

1.Appropriate diet. FSGS patients should be served with low-salt food, and high quality proteins for limited amount. After the condition get recovered, it can gradually turn back to general diet, while it should be low-salt and low proteins all the time.

2.Appropriate rest. To patients who are with severe edema and concurrent infections, they should be strictly limited on physical activities, better stay in bed for the first few days of onset. Patients legs can be lifted up slightly during rest time, as the edema alleviated they can get up and do some moderate exercise accordingly, appropriate exercise on legs can prevent venous thrombus, meanwhile, joint movements can be done to prevent stiffness and contracture.

3.Controlling blood pressure. It means a lot in prevention of kidney function decrease. To patients with hypertension, they should be measured on blood pressure everyday.

4.Infection prevention. Patients may experience malnutrition because of severe edema and low-protein diet, it can weaken the immunity and make them easier to be infected. To prevent infection, they should be well cared for on mouth and skin hygiene, and it is important keep their living environment clean and quite.

5.Mental healthcare. It is important to give the patients sense of security and trust, help them overcome the adverse spiritual factors like anxiety, depression, agitation and fear. Spiritual nursing is a part of the treatment, to keep them in good emotion can benefit a lot to the treating result.

In addition, it is better to keep record of medicines categories and dosages, especially for the glucocorticoids, and tell the doctor about patient’s response to the medicines. To patients with edema, they should be record on the water intake and urine volume every day, also they should be weighed regularly to guide the diet and medication.


All in all, FSGS patients need a strict health care in their daily life. And if you wan to know more information about FSGS, you can contact our online doctors, leave us messages or send email to kidneyfight@hotmail.com, we will reply you as soon as possible.