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Renal Failure may affect legs in three ways: leg swelling, leg cramps and leg weakness. The last symptom can reveal several underlying disorders for renal failure patients. If possible, kidney failure patients had better make clear why they have leg weakness, because this can guide them to choose correct treatments.
The causes of leg weakness for Renal Failure patients
1. Malnutrition: Renal failure patients are always recommended to follow a restricted diet plan, so they are more likely to suffer from malnutrition and lack of energy. This can induce leg weakness easily.
2. Renal anemia: With the serious decline of kidney function, renal anemia is one common complication. Lack of red blood cells make less oxygen and nutritions provided for leg cells.
3. Electrolyte disorder: In addition to cleansing blood, maintaining electrolyte balance is another kidney function. When kidneys fail to work, electrolyte balance is disturbed easily, resulting in leg weakness.
4. Lack of physical exercise: Most renal failure patients don’t want to do exercise regularly that can cause weakness directly.
How to deal with leg weakness for renal failure patients?
The treatments should depend on the causes, so kidney doctors give out the following methods to help manage leg weakness.
- Arrange a kidney-friendly diet plan: Kidney patients should take in correct amount of protein, sodium, potassium, calcium and phosphorus, according to their illness condition.
- Supplement iron and take proper medicines: To fight against renal anemia, patients should eat more foods rich in iron and take or inject some medicines like EPO to stimulate the body to produce more red blood cells.
- Do exercise regularly: Taking active part in gentle exercise can help build patients’ bone and make their body stronger, so their legs can feel more energetic.
- Improve kidney function: Since leg weakness is due to renal failure, improving kidney function level should be the root method to overcome this problem. At present, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has shown a big superiority in reversing kidney damage and repairing impaired kidney cells. Therefore, it is worth a try.
To learn more about diet and treatment for renal failure patients’ leg weakness, you can leave a message to kidneyservice@hotmail.com or the form below.
