Diabetic Kidney Disease, also known as Diabetic Nephropathy, or nodular
diabetic glomerulosclerosis, is a complication seen in longstanding Diabetes.
Patients with Diabetic kidney disease often complain about swelling on the face
and other parts of the body. Then what causes their facial swelling?
Diabetic kidney disease describes the damages, scarring or hardening of
capillaries in the kidney (glomeruli). The glomeruli are responsible for
filtering the blood, allowing excessive fluid and wastes pass into the urine
while restrain nutrients in the blood. Diabetic kidney disease interferes with
this filtering mechanism, allowing a protein (albumin) to spill into the urine.
Decreased levels of protein in the blood causes fluid to lead out of the
bloodstream, causing swelling (edema) on the face or in the feet, ankles, legs,
hands and arms.
How to treat swelling on the face of Diabetic Kidney Disease?
Treatment of swelling should remedy the underlying cause of swelling.
Generally, patients will take western medicines like diuretics and maintain a
water-restricted diet. However, these measures can only remedy the symptoms
other than eliminating the root cause of the disease. The progression of
Diabetic kidney disease to Renal Failure is still not prevented.
There exists a Chinese therapy for swelling on the face of Diabetic kidney
disease, which is called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It belongs to
Chinese herbal medicine which has no side effects to patients. The formula also
varies with different cases. Under the treatment of Micro-Chinese Medicine,
further damages to the glomeruli are blocked and the impaired renal filtering
units can get repaired so extra metabolic wastes will be excreted out of the
body. If the kidney function recovers, symptom of swelling will disappear
gradually.