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.
2. The patients should limit the salt and water intake. Generally speaking,
they should keep the salt intake within 5 grams per day. If their disease is
serious, they should reduce salt intake to 2 grams per day. The volume of fluid
intake should be higher than the urine output volume. Meanwhile, the patients
should eat more digestible food.
3. If the patients with edema need injection, the doctor should press on the
injection site for a while before infection. In this way, the patients can have
better absorption of liquid medicine.
4. Edema skin can not feel good and also has weak resistance. Therefore, the
patients with edema should prevent press, burning, infection and so on. They
should wear soft and loose clothes and keep their bed clean, tidy and dry.
Moreover, they should clean their skin with warm water every day.
The above article has provided some tips for the patients with edema. If you
want to know how to treat edema effectively, please consult us on line or email
to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com.