Why does nephrotic oedema begin from lower limbs

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Although there are many manifestations of nephropathy, most patients with nephropathy will have some similar symptoms, one of which is nephrotic edema. Patients with severe edema will be inconvenient to move, and there will be a certain itching pain phenomenon. So why do most of the edema symptoms of patients with this disease start from the lower limbs? Now let's understand some problems in this respect. Share my experience

Why does nephrotic oedema begin from lower limbs

This is because most people have albumin in their bodies, which has the function of fixing water. The most typical manifestation of kidney disease is hypoproteinemia, that is, the albumin in the body of patients is reduced, so the role of water fixation will also be reduced. With the aggravation of the disease, it is easy to appear edema.

The water in the patient's body will accumulate in the ankle or lower limb due to the gravity of walking. Therefore, in life, patients with kidney disease edema performance of the earliest place is the patient's feet and lower limbs, this part of the edema is also the most serious.

We should pay attention to nephritis, this disease is also easy to cause edema. However, different from other kidney diseases, nephritis generally does not have hypoproteinemia, so the cells can fix water normally. At this time, if the patient has edema, it may be seen in the thinnest eyelid of the skin.

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Because the kidney is the main organ of the body to excrete water, when the patient's kidney is sick, water is not easy to be excreted from the body, and it is easy to cause edema due to accumulation in the body. Severe patients will not only have lower extremity edema, may be systemic edema.