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Nephrotic syndrome is a syndrome with 4 symptoms in combination including albuminuria, hypoalbuminemia, hypertension, and anasarca. Anasarca is a visible symptom. In the initial stage, it can be easily ignored as only the eyelids get swollen. However, it is found as the legs and the feet get swollen, resulting in the inability to wear shoes, sock marks on the legs, or larger pants sizes. The progress of the disease differs. The symptoms sometimes naturally disappear, but in some cases, the disease leads to anasarca or even threatens the life as resistance to infections become weak. Fortunately, there are two kidneys and they can cover for each other in case one of them fails. However, it is important to pay attention to them as damages in kidneys cannot be recovered.
Gastrointestinal phlegm stagnation treatment can improve it. Healthy water metabolism is required above anything else to maintain the health of the kidneys that filters bodily wastes. Most of the water in our body come from food consumption. Gastrointestinal tract that first encounters the food is seen as the upper stream, and the kidneys can be considered the lower stream for the functions and location inside the body. If water metabolism is decreased in the upper stream, water that includes toxins enters into the kidneys, the lower stream, to damage the kidneys. Therefore, the gastrointestinal health is directly related to the health of the kidneys.
