Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a disease that affects the kidney's filtering system causing scarring and loss of large amounts of protein in the urine. FSGS is a common cause of nephrotic syndrome. It is difficult to treat FSGS, for most patients don't respond well to steroid medicines, so those patients are at risk for kidney failure.
Children and adults of all ages and races can get FSGS. FSGS causes excessive loss of protein in the urine which may lead to high cholesterol, low protein in the blood, swelling. In some patients FSGS may be the result of a genetic or inherited disease, an infection such as parvovirus or HIV/AIDS, or other kidney diseases that lead to scarring.
Very few treatments are available for patients with FSGS. Steroids medicines is usually used to treat FSGS. However, we have mentioned above that most patients with FSGS don't respond well to steroid medicines. Even if steroid medicines is used, lots of protein still will be leaked.
About the diet for FSGS patients, they should control the protein intake, and foods containing a high-quality of protein are their good choice, such as eggs, milk, lean meat and fish. According to the specific illness condition, the total intake of protein a day should be controlled in 20-40g in general. Ice cream, oatmeal, chocolate, yolk, nut fruit should be eaten less, for these foods contain high levels of phosphorus. While foods containing low phosphorus such as egg white, spinach, Chinese cabbage, celery, tomatoes should be eaten more by FSGS patients. And patients also can do some mild exercise, such as jogging, bowling, Yoga and so on. These mild exercise can improve the patients' immunity.
If FSGS patients can not receive an efficient treatment, they are unavoidable to face kidney failure.
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