Showing posts with label nephrotic syndrome in children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nephrotic syndrome in children. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 June 2012

Children have the apparent characteristics of nephrotic syndrome


One, highly edema
The most obvious characteristics of nephrotic syndrome in children is highly dropsy. Bloated parts usually distributed in lower limbs, head, and torso. Organization of loose parts will be more apparent, such as eyelids, boy scrotal can swollen similar light bulb. Also with serous cavity viscera fluid, such as pleural effusion and ascites. Bloated serious skin can present a thin and bright state of feeling, the skin was slightly damaged will ooze water.
Second, urine contains a large number of protein
The expert points out, patients urine contains a lot of protein, routine urine tests show the urine protein can reach + + + to + + + +, 24 hours from increased urinary protein amount. Through the blood assay examination showed plasma in reducing the amount of albumin, make normal albumin and the proportion of immunoglobulin by 1 ~ 1.5 to 0.5, appear the proportion, plasma cholesterol levels.
Three, appear on the skin white or purple lines
Some children in ham or the inside of the upper arm, chest, abdomen appears white or purple lines, these white, purple lines is similar to the pregnant women uteruses Calvin lines, and urine output significantly less. Due to long-term from urine in lost a large number of protein, children have the apparent characteristics of nephrotic syndrome but shows for protein malnutrition, hair dry yellow boring, skin is too dry, nails appear white horizontal grain, anemia and easy infection.

Thursday, 31 May 2012

The June 1 children's day: health care for children with nephrotic syndrome feast


One, daily life sometimes, as in the sun
Hot summer weather, sunshine time long. Nephrotic syndrome in children, must follow the change of the weather rules, formed the good living habits. At 1:00 PM best arrangement for half an hour or so lunch break, so can ensure that physical strength, and recovery. Some of the harmful rays such as r rays, extremely easy violations caused by human body skin inflammation, kidney disease syndrome patients themselves low immune function, it should be wary of the sun as, lest because of skin inflammation worse.

Second, abstemious, not greed is cool
Summer fruit or vegetables in many varieties and aroma funny appetite, and some of the children with nephrotic syndrome, like ice cream or iced diet to quench my thirst. If once in a while, a few times is not taboo, if constantly to cool for no illness is greed. For cold cold can damage gastrointestinal function, so that shipment of spleen and stomach YuJian lost, not about his illness. If by greed cool with acute enteritis then each make an illness or aggravated again and again. So patients with nephrotic syndrome summer careful with cool cold drinks.

Three, exercising, pay attention to health
Many parents think diseases want sanatorium, let the child darling to stay at home. In fact, it is not good, even if the sick, the appropriate for children to some exercise and many benefits. In the children playing and life, should pay attention to children's health, avoid to cause all kinds of infections disease recurrence or worse.

Four, pay attention to the bedroom environment, pay attention to sleep hygiene
Summer, kidney disease syndrome patients decorate the bedroom appropriate capacious, bright, ventilated, ventilation, keep a certain temperature. The air conditioning shoulds not be too low, with less than the temperature outside is 5 ~ 6 ° c or so advisable, or extremely easy because of the rapid change and cold and heat in a cold. Bedding to clean, dry, the bedroom wants downy light, ventilated breathe freely. Because after sleep based metabolism is abate, the child's self-defense function is poorer, extremely easy catch cold catch cold catch a cold, so patients with nephrotic syndrome summer when you sleep should pay attention to cover the abdomen, in order to safeguard against the stomach Yang, prevent colds.

Five, the characteristic is the chang, the essence of abstinence
The course of a long nephrotic syndrome, patients must have the confidence of conquer disease, children in the healing process easily loses confidence patience, this is parents to play an important role, and actively encourage children. With a positive mental attitude of the high treatment health care.
Children in doing the day-to-day nephrotic syndrome of the health care, early accept standardized treatment is necessary. Previous hormone therapy, although can let children early get rid of albuminuria, swelling and other problems, but the long-term use of child health constitute a serious threat. The serious influence to a child's healthy growth.


Wednesday, 30 May 2012

How to care to children with nephrotic syndrome


Nephrotic syndrome in children, treatment time want to be longer, in care and to pay attention to the following:
(1) bloated evident should rest in bed, wait for after improvement can be appropriately increased activity.
(2) the diet management is very important. Edema oliguria period should be restricted to salt water rationing, because the children from urine lost a large number of protein, so want to eat some protein more food. Children can't long-term avoid salt, if not easy to cause low sodium syndrome, this be dangerous.
(3) note edema parts of the care, keep skin clean, dry, avoid scratches and under pressure, often turn over, should be soft bedding, hip, and can be fitted or cotton lap back. Scrotal edema can be used MianDian or condole belt hold up, broken skin in should cover disinfection dressing, as a precaution against infection.
(4) avoid cross infection. Kidney disease such as merger of children of the infection, kidney disease good slowly, and easily recurrence. Therefore, we should avoid contact with the people catch a cold.
(5) the treatment of kidney disease is long-term, can't treatment for a few days, stop for a few days, or easy relapse, according to the command of the drug, even if the condition is improved obviously can't stop medicine.

Children need to be aware of nephrotic syndrome


Nephrotic syndrome in children, should pay attention to rest. First should limit the movements of the children, should be low salt diet, high protein, meat, eggs, and beans are contained more protein, can increase such diet. Eat every day 1 ~ 3 g salt, bloated to completely avoid serious when salt, and slightly limit water quantity. The treatment of increasing urine, to increase of salty food, and to the potassium chloride, such as calcium tablet oral. Long-term low salt or avoid salt, can cause low sodium symptoms, such as spirit, depressed, vomiting, be agitated, urinetoplasma ratio, lower blood pressure.
Experts suggest that nephrotic syndrome in children should pay attention to the following points:
1. Children should not be tired. Children of self-discipline ability is poor, came home from the hospital will feel very fresh, easy to play too tired, lack of sleep, parents must pay special attention to arrange good boy schedules, as far as possible to get sufficient rest.
2. Children eat more food is unfavorable salt. Eating less salt to pay attention, on blood pressure is not down to normal child, it is really very important. But the food without salt, and can affect appetite, appropriate USES low salt diet. In the bloated and high blood pressure vanish, just can improve normal diet, but also to light, not salty. Steamed bread and soda biscuit also contains sodium, had better not give kids to eat. Can let the child to eat some fresh fruit and vegetables, to supplement vitamin.
3. Children should not be long wear clothes don't change. Infections often is to lure a recurrence of kidney disease cause. Wash regularly change clothes, keep skin clean, can prevent the skin infection.
4. Children should not be to public places. To maintain indoor air fresh, try not to take her children to the stores, movie theaters and other public places. Pay attention to climate change clothes according to increase or decrease, prevent colds.
5. Should not be literally reduction or withdrawal. Treatment for kidney disease, most of the need to take hormone drugs. Taking hormone sick children, which must be under the guidance of the next, with improved, gradually reducing until withdrawal. Parents should urge each child medicine on time, must not optional reduction and withdrawal, lest cause illness relapses.