Kidney Failure and Facial Swelling
2013-12-04 15:11
If you find you have facial swelling suddenly in one morning without drinking too much water before you go to bed last night, you need to pay extra attention on your kidney, as facial swelling can be a spell of kidney failure. However, how is facial swelling linked with kidney failure? And what can patients do to alleviate this symptom?
Causes of facial swelling in kidney failure
Facial swelling or puffy face always appears as the consequence of large amounts of fluid build up in the body. We know kidney is the organ that takes charge of filter blood. When kidney function is affected for some reason, they will have difficulties in excreting extra fluid in the body. Consequently, fluid accumulates in the body, leading to swelling. Swelling caused by kidney failure occurs easily in body parts with loose tissues like eyelid, face, ankle and limbs.
Facial swelling is just one of the visible clinical manifestations of kidney failure. Aside from it, people suffering from kidney failure may also experience extremely tiredness, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, skin itching, foamy urine, dizziness and so on.
Management of facial swelling caused by kidney failure
Similar with other discomforts caused by kidney failure, facial swelling also needs to be brought under control effectively and its management should start from the following several aspects:
1. Tight control of fluid intake
A tight control of fluid intake is necessary for kidney failure patients to receive good treatment effects in treating facial swelling. (Leave message to kidney-treatment@hotmail.com to get advices about how to control fluid intake effectively with fluid retention caused by kidney problem)
2. Diuretics can be used in some cases
If left alone, facial swelling will spread to the whole body. In that case, diuretics can be applied to help to remove excess fluid in the body. There are different kinds of diuretics in medicine. Generally speaking, for patients who have hyperkalemia, they need to take the general diuretics which can help to excrete excess potassium while excreting excess fluid in the body. However, if potassium level in blood is lower than the reference range 3.5-5.5mEq/L, potassium-sparing diuretics will be suggested.
3. Improvement of kidney function
Disturbance of potassium metabolism appears as kidney can not function well. Therefore, if we want to remit facial swelling, kidney failure patients must repair kidney damages to improve kidney function. Only in this way, can excess fluid in the body be removed and also can facial swelling be alleviated fundamentally.
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