Immunotherapy Is the Priority of Renal Failure

Suffering from renal failure, people seek effective therapy here and there hoping to cure it forever. However, they usually feel disappointed for the medication they used can not treat it thoroughly such as kinds of hormones and immunosuppressive agents such as cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine. Why? Once renal failure appears, it indicates that there must be damaged cells in the kidney caused by immune inflammatory response in the kidney for immune complex deposited into kidney.
Either hormone or immunosuppressive agent can only stop the immune inflammatory response for the time being. They can not clear away the immune complex and can not repair the damaged cells in the kidney, either, which make kidney failure patients take dialysis or even kidney transplant.
On the basis of its pathological mechanism, immunotherapy is researched out, which is a combination of both traditional Chinese medicine such as Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and western therapy such as plasma exchange. The core technology of this therapy is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and others are assistant ones such as blood purification.
After immune diagnosis, we can know where and type of toxins and immune complex. After immune purification, waste and immune complex in the blood can be repaired. Then, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is applied, which contains Chinese herbal medicines and can repair the damaged cells in the kidney and enhance the immunity of the body by balancing yin and yang. It is applied through osmosis every day and it lasts for 45 minutes in a time, which can promote the blood vessels, improve the insufficiency of blood and oxygen, degrade the immune complex, clearing them away, thus treating renal failure from root.

Blood Perfusion in Treating Kidney Failure

Blood perfusion is a kind of blood purification technology. In physiology, perfusion is the process of delivery of blood to a capillary bed in the biological tissue. The word is derived from the French verb "perfuser" meaning to "pour over or through."
In blood perfusion, blood of renal failure patients is led to a perfusion machine in which, there is solid absorption agents so as to clear away the toxins and to purify the blood in renal failure patients. Blood perfusion can also be used to treat excessive medications intake and poisoning. Because there is immune absorption facilities, blood perfusion can also be called immune absorption.
The application field is as follows:
Blood perfusion can be used to clear away toxins or wastes such as creatinine,urea acid, middle molecules, phenols,guanidines, benzpyrole, organic acid and so on.
Principle of blood perfusion: we mainly use it to prevent instead of treatment. For ESRD(end stage renal disease)patients,on the basis of regular hemodialysis, they should choose either of the following one according to their own specific condition.
1. regular treatment schedule
In the first month, kidney failure patients undergo dialysis once a week. 1 month later, undergo dialysis one time in half month. When the condition improved a lot, patients can choose maintainance treatment.
Indications: it is suitable for kidney failure patients who have dialysis for more than one year and there have appeared many complications.
2. maintainance (prevention)dialysis
In this schedule, kidney failure patients one time every 2 weeks or even one month.
Indications: maintainance (prevention)dialysis is fit for those who undergo dialysis less than one year. There are also no complications or the complication is not so serious. It is also suitable for those whose condition is stale after regular treatment.

Immune Absorption for Kidney Failure

Immune absorption is a new blood purification technology in recent years with high selectivity. Making full use of high specific antigen-antibody response or some materials which has appetency, put the absorption agent onto the absorption column, so as to absorb the pathological substance(ligand), thus purifying blood and relieving symptoms and discomfort. In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, we mainly use immunotherapy, which includes immune absorption, which is a method in systematic immune diagnosis. The core therapy is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. Immune absorption plays the following role in immunotherapy.
1. It has strong selective ability to the combination of antibody and antigen, which can clear away the obstacles or barriers for the application of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
2. It has specific ability to clear away immune complex, which can lay a foundation for Micro-Chinese Medicine.
3. Patients do not need replacement liquid so as to avoid the infection disease of blood purification facilities.
4. After immune absorption, there is no lost in the elements of plasma, and the treatment degree can also be adjusted on the basis of the specific condition.
5. Immune absorption can relieve the symptoms and shorten the treatment course, which can assist the treatment of Micro-Chinese Medicine. What’s more, it can improve the micro-blood circulation and make contribution to the repairment.

How Can You Prevent Tiredness and Nausea Before Dialysis?

Are you a dialysis patient? Are you puzzled by tiredness or nausea after dialysis? If your answer is yes, the following content will be useful for you to prevent your tiredness and nausea.
Why can these bad feelings puzzle you?
Hypotension, allergic reaction, infection and severe anemia all can cause your tiredness and nausea. If you think bad feelings are normal and don’t pay attention to them, your condition will be worse and worse as the time goes on. So it is important for you to prevent these symptoms before your dialysis.
How can you prevent tiredness and nausea before dialysis?
There is an old saying in China: Take medicine according to your disease symptoms. So if you want to prevent these bad feelings, you must take some measures according to the above causes.
Hypotension, as the most common cause, may be the root factor of your tiredness and nausea. In this situation, you can take the following measures
·control your dry weight strictly
·prolong the dialysis time suitably
·increase the dialysis time
·adjust the sodium concent in dialysis fluid
Allergic reaction usually happens due to reaction to the dialyzer. So choosing a befitting dialysis can help you to solve this problem.
Infection, which is usually accompanied by fever, can be detected easily. If you find infection in the first dialysis, you should tell your doctor or your nurse to change your dialysis prescription and then you can prevent the next infection.
Severe anemia can not only cause your tiredness and nausea but also affect your daily life. Lacking nutrition is the main cause of severe anemia, so you had better take enough nutrition and have a health diet.
Temporary tiredness and nausea may not affect your life seriously, but they can make you health worse and worse with the time going, so you should prevent them actively.

Will Patients’ Urine Become Less and Less with Dialysis?

Urine, usually as the mark of kidney disease, is used by dialysis patients to judge whether their kidney disease is serious. As their condition becomes worse, they have to choose dialysis to replace the function of their kidney. At that time, it may be one of questions that puzzle them whether their urine will become less and less with dialysis.
Most of patients have a lot of urine when they just begin dialysis, and they can have enough urine after dialysis if their kidney still has some function. In this situation, the urine of dialysis patients won’t reduce and they don’t need to dehydration or just a little dehydration. But if they don’t take effective treatment timely, their urine will also become less as their conditions is serious.
Only relying on dialysis can only prolong the patients’ life, but their disease condition will aggravate as the time goes on. So they should take some other measures to maintain their urine quantity. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy may be a good choice for these patients.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, can adjust patients’ body and protect their kidney function to maintain their urine quantity. Through external application and medical bath, on the one hand this treatment effectively avoid the herb’s bitter and its slow effect, on the other hand this treatment can eliminate the western medicine’s side-effects. So I say it is a good choice for dialysis patients to maintain their urine quantity.
Open your eyes, you will find the sky is blue, open your ears, you will hear the sound of our world is sweet, and open your heart to Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, you will find our health is coming and your urine is not less after dialysis.

Should I, a CRF Patient, Choose Dialysis or Kidney Transplant?

“Should I choose to continue dialysis or accept kidney transplant?” A CRF Patient asked me a few days ago. This question may be the concern of tens of thousands of CRF patients, so today I will give my detailed answer for these patients.

Dialysis and kidney transplant are both treatments for renal failure patients. When their kidneys begin to fail and can’t play their normal function, these people have to consider dialysis or kidney transplant to replace their failed kidneys. Different treatments have their own advantages and disadvantages, so CRF patients should choose the available treatment according to their disease condition.

Dialysis is better than kidney transplant for this group of CRF patients.

The CRF patients should choose dialysis, when their kidneys just begin to lose their function, and waste and toxins begin to build up in their blood. Dialysis can replace the kidney to play the role of filtration. In the early stage of CRF, a few times of dialysis per month are enough for these patients to maintain their normal life, so their life will not be influenced by dialysis. In a word, dialysis is better than kidney transplant for early-stage CRF patients.

Kidney transplant is better for anther group of CRF patients.

Kidney transplant is considered when the patients with severe kidney disease that called end-stage kidney disease. A new kidney coming from the patients’ relative or unrelated person can help CRF patients get rid of dialysis and give them a new life. If the patients don’t have heart disease, mental disease, systemic disorders, etc and they have found a matched kidney, kidney transplant is a good choice for them. So we can know kidney transplant is more suited for end-stage CRF patients who don’t have the contraindication of kidney transplant.

No matter how perfect one thing is, it is still not suitable for everyone, and then how about our dialysis or kidney transplant? We should choose the treatment which is more effective for ourself.

Symptoms and Stages of CKD

CKD is the abbreviation of Chronic Kidney Disease and it causes no obvious symptoms at the very beginning. With the progression of CKD, kidney function decreases and various symptoms occur. The following is introduction about CKD and hope it can help you learn more about kidney problem.
About CKD Symptoms
Edema, nephritis of edema is generally eyelid edema. Especially in the morning eyelid edema is the most obvious.
High blood pressure is also the most common symptoms .Some high blood pressure patients will present kidney disease at the final period .
Chronic nephritis hematuria is mostly microscopic haematuria.
Albuminuria are generally very turbid. Lots of foams in the urine cannot appear for a long time. As usual, if some foams or night increased.
Urinalysis urine appear in the urine protein and red blood cells. It is chronic kidney disease (CKD) happened early warning signal. Chronic kidney failure can divide into 5 stages.
The first stage is kidney function is well but have proteinuria and some other kidney damaged. GFR is 90-100%.
The second stage is mild chronic kidney failure with proteinuria and blood urine.GFR turn into 60-89% at this stage. At this stage, kidney function will get more than 60% compared to the normal people. At this stage, people who get high blood pressure, diabetes should pay more attention to that. Kidney patients should pay more attention to the diet and treatment. Special diet and treatment will be helpful for them. they must control the blood pressure and blood sugar. Patients should have a test every six months. If they have a good treatment, their kidney function will be better.
The third stage is moderate chronic renal failure. The GFR is 30-59%.
The fourth stage is severe chronic renal failure. The GFR is 15-29%. At this stage, kidney function will get into 15-59% compared to the normal kidney function.
At the fifth stage, that is end kidney disease, GFR gets less than 15%.Kidney function less than 15%compared to the normal function. At this stage, kidney could not rule out the metabolism of water and waste. Patient must accept dialysis or kidney transportation.

Something You Need to know about PKD

Polycystic kidney disease is a common kind of hereditary kidney disease. The main manifestation is many cyst in different size grow on both sides kidney. Cyst increase progressively. And finally these cysts destroy the structure and function of the kidney and then lead to final stage kidney failure. Polycystic kidney disease always happened in the kidney. The cardinal symptoms are renal cyst, pain bleed, hypertension and renal function slow down. The major etiology is genetic inheritance. As the mode of inheritance is different, polycystic kidney disease can divide into autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease(ADPKD) and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD). Generally speaking, ADPKD are usually found in the middle age. It also can found in any time of life. ARPKD is often develop in babyhood. ADPKD is the most common single-gene heredity nephropathy. Incidence rate stay at 1/1000-1/4000. Age of onset is 30-50 years old. ADPKD not only involve cyst of liver, but also together with cyst of liver, Pancreatic Cyst, Intracranial aneurysm, Heart valve abnormal and so on. So ADPKD is also a systemic disease.
50% of the ADPKD patients who are more than 60 years old will develop into final stage kidney failure. That is about 5%-10% in the end-stage renal failure etiological factors. Most of ARPKD patients are baby. Few of ARPKA patients are children or teen-agers. The incidence rate is very low. ADPKD children patients die of respiratory failure or renal failure. When they grow up, their kidney collecting tube will expand, and then developed into renal failure. If polycystic kidney disease is ADPKD ,according to genetic development rules, disease from generation to generation, Morbidity risk rate male and female patients probability is same。 If one of the parents inject disease, then the children will get easily. But about 40% patients have no family history. Maybe for the patient's own caused by gene mutations.

The diet for the chronic kidney disease patients

Chronic kidney patient often have their own unique characteristics of the disease. Chronic kidney patient should assist therapy by the targeted diet so that they can get a good result.
Firstly, chronic kidney patient need to get enough vitamins and that is a very important diet principle. They must pay more attention to that. Chronic kidney patients should have some fruits which have vitamin A , B, C and enough iron element so that can meet the body needs. For example, the fresh vegetable, fruit and animal giblets. Chronic kidney patients must ingest enough vitamins.
Secondly, it is very important to control the phosphorus content for the chronic kidney patients. Chronic kidney patients must pay more attention in that and try your best to avoid getting phosphorus food.
Thirdly, chronic kidney patients must limit the ingestion of protein. When we ingest some protein, phosphorus and some other acid ionic enter into our body at the same time. Generally speaking, chronic kidney patients ingest 0.6mg protein is OK. They can eat some fish, milk and they had better to avoid eating peanut, soybean.
In addition, chronic kidney patients need to drink more water every day. The more, the better. They also can drink some orange juice, watermelon juice. It is good for their health.
Chronic kidney patients with high blood pressure should eat less salt.
Food preference can cause serious effect for the chronic kidney patients. Chronic kidney patients need supply enough various nutritions every day. If lack of one or more kinds of element, chronic kidney patients will feel uncomfortable. It is bad for their revert.
Chronic kidney patients should not eat too much. The digest for the chronic kidney syndrome patients is decreased. So chronic kidney patients must avoid eating to much so that to avoid the ill-natured result. Eating to much not only can aggravate the burden of the stomach and intestine, but also can lead to acute gastric dilatation. Long-term eating too much can make nephrosclerosis speed up.
Seafood should be limited for kidney disease patients. People with an allergic physical constitute are not suggested to eat seafood. If you are allergic to a certain product, eating it may cause allergic reactions, active immune system and worsen the illness condition. People with such type of kidney diseases as Henoch-Schonlein purpura that are associated to anaphylaxis should also not eat seafood.
At the same time, as chronic kidney disease lasts for a long time. So the patients need to have enough patience and prevent giving up treating halfway.