2014年10月27日星期一

People with Purpura: Protect Your Kidneys

Complications are always troublesome, and when you get Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, you must worry about the Purpura Nephritis very much. Here, basic knowledge of Henoch-Schonlein Purpura and Purpura Nephritis are provided for you.
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura is a common disease that aroused by the allergic reaction in capillaries, and the main causes are including infection, food allergy, drug allergy, and other allergies related with pollen and bugbite, etc. The exact causes is usually hard to be confirmed.
The clinical manifestations are also something you need to know. Usually, before the burst of the disease, there may be inflammation in the upper respiratory tract, and you will have slight fever, pain in throat and other malaise. The reflection in skin is the rashes which distribute symmetrically in the joint, buttocks and even the whole body. In the meanwhile, articular pain and arthritis will perplex you. There will be 2/3 sufferers having paroxysmal colic pain or persistent dull pain in abdomen, vomit, haematemesis and Hematochezia. What's worse, there can be some symptoms in the kidneys.
The complications of Purpura will be various, but kidney disease that caused by Purpura may be the one which is paid most attention to because we usually think the kidney disease as very serious. In fact, the kidneys are really easy to be involved in the disease. The disease condition is rather severe, and the morbidity is high. Manifestations in kidney can appear in any period of the disease course. In some cases, the repeated occurrence can lead to Chronic Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome and even Chronic Renal Failure. All those pathological changes in kidneys aroused by Purpura are called Purpura Nephritis.
Here, the initial symptoms of Purpura Nephritis are introduced briefly.
1. Hematuria. Both gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria may appear constantly or persistently. It can be severer after the burst of purpura and infections, and is usually accompanied by proteinuria of different severity.
2. Proteinuria. The severity of proteinuria has no relationship with that of hematuria. In some cases, sufferers will develop Nephrotic Syndrome or acute Nephritic Syndrome.
3. Hypertension. It is slight hypertension in most cases, and if the blood pressure is rather high, there will be a poor prognosis generally.
4. Other symptoms. In some cases, edema will appear and it is usually slight one. In the active period of the disease, those who have edema will have a higher blood pressure. Edema is related to the loss of protein. In addition, sufferers will have pain in joint and abdomen, and some other malaise will also invade the body.

All the symptoms mentioned above is the main manifestations for the Purpura Nephritis. Generally speaking, the earlier the changes of urine appear, the severer the disease will be. Therefore, if you get Purpura, you must watch for the changes in your whole body and prevent complications in advance, especially pay close attention to your kidneys, because kidney is always the victim of Purpura and Purpura Nephritis is always serious. If you want to know more about this, you can talk with the consultant online or leave a message to phoebe871124@gmail.com

People with Purpura: Protect Your Kidneys

Complications are always troublesome, and when you get Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, you must worry about the Purpura Nephritis very much. Here, basic knowledge of Henoch-Schonlein Purpura and Purpura Nephritis are provided for you.
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura is a common disease that aroused by the allergic reaction in capillaries, and the main causes are including infection, food allergy, drug allergy, and other allergies related with pollen and bugbite, etc. The exact causes is usually hard to be confirmed.
The clinical manifestations are also something you need to know. Usually, before the burst of the disease, there may be inflammation in the upper respiratory tract, and you will have slight fever, pain in throat and other malaise. The reflection in skin is the rashes which distribute symmetrically in the joint, buttocks and even the whole body. In the meanwhile, articular pain and arthritis will perplex you. There will be 2/3 sufferers having paroxysmal colic pain or persistent dull pain in abdomen, vomit, haematemesis and Hematochezia. What's worse, there can be some symptoms in the kidneys.
The complications of Purpura will be various, but kidney disease that caused by Purpura may be the one which is paid most attention to because we usually think the kidney disease as very serious. In fact, the kidneys are really easy to be involved in the disease. The disease condition is rather severe, and the morbidity is high. Manifestations in kidney can appear in any period of the disease course. In some cases, the repeated occurrence can lead to Chronic Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome and even Chronic Renal Failure. All those pathological changes in kidneys aroused by Purpura are called Purpura Nephritis.
Here, the initial symptoms of Purpura Nephritis are introduced briefly.
1. Hematuria. Both gross hematuria and microscopic hematuria may appear constantly or persistently. It can be severer after the burst of purpura and infections, and is usually accompanied by proteinuria of different severity.
2. Proteinuria. The severity of proteinuria has no relationship with that of hematuria. In some cases, sufferers will develop Nephrotic Syndrome or acute Nephritic Syndrome.
3. Hypertension. It is slight hypertension in most cases, and if the blood pressure is rather high, there will be a poor prognosis generally.
4. Other symptoms. In some cases, edema will appear and it is usually slight one. In the active period of the disease, those who have edema will have a higher blood pressure. Edema is related to the loss of protein. In addition, sufferers will have pain in joint and abdomen, and some other malaise will also invade the body.

All the symptoms mentioned above is the main manifestations for the Purpura Nephritis. Generally speaking, the earlier the changes of urine appear, the severer the disease will be. Therefore, if you get Purpura, you must watch for the changes in your whole body and prevent complications in advance, especially pay close attention to your kidneys, because kidney is always the victim of Purpura and Purpura Nephritis is always serious. If you want to know more about this, you can talk with the consultant online or leave a message to

2014年10月25日星期六

Latest Treatment for Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis patients are always confused by their disease due to frequent relapse under traditional treatment method. Therefore, they begin to look for new treatment for Lupus Nephritis. Then, what is the newest and latest treatment for Lupus Nephritis?
In order to get a clear idea about the most suitable treatment, we need to make sure that how does Lupus Nephritis occur?
Lupus Nephritis is a kind of immunological disease which refers to the kidney damage caused by SLE. If human body is infected by lupus factor, abnormal immune reaction will keep existing, causing pathogenic autoantibody forming in body. Then, large quantity of immune complex, such as IgG or IgM, will accumulate in blood, thus depositing in glomeruli capillary epithelial cells area. Gradually, kidney damaged will be caused, and symptom of proteinuria will also appear.
From the above, it can be easily found that the most effective method to treat the disease is to remove immune complex in blood and stop the formation of immune complex as well as repair the damage caused by immune complex accumulation. Based on this, Micro-Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell Treatment have gained more and more attention from Lupus Nephritis patients.
Micro-Chinese Medicine is researched out on the basis of traditional Chinese Medicine. Different from traditional Chinese Medicine, Micro-Chinese Medicine is used in an external application method and the main functions of prescription for Lupus Nephritis are degrading and removing immune complex and repairing kidney damage caused by SLE. As for Stem Cell Treatment, its treatment effect on Lupus Nephritis is much better because stem cells can produce new immunocytes to repair and improve the immune system, which can reduce or even stop the formation of immune complex. Besides, stem cells can regenerate and differentiate into new kidney function cells which can play the same function as those totally damaged cells. As a result, kidney condition can be controlled and improved effectively. What’s more, with immune system being improved, the relapse of the disease will also be reduced greatly. Another important point is that there is no side effect during the treatments of both Micro-Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell Treatment through many years of clinical practice.

More and more Lupus Nephritis patients began to turn their sights to Micro-Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell Treatment due to its high safety and obvious effect. Many patients has already benefited from this treatment, if you want to make sure whether you are suitable for this treatment, you can send your email to phoebe871124@gmail.com or consult us online. Our doctors and experts will offer you our opinions after analyzing and discussing.

Relation between Creatinine and Kidney Disease

Patients with kidney disease won’t be alien from creatinine, and the fluctuation of it has become a focal point of the patients and their families. In deed, creatinine can reflect the extent of damage of kidney in some degree, but the patients only know that the higher the creatinine index rises, the severer the damage is, however, few of them are able to explain the concrete relation between creatinine and kidney disease. So, why can creatinine reflect the condition of kidney? This article will give a specific introduction of creatinine and its relation with kidney disease.
Firstly, what is creatinine?
Creatinine is a kind of metabolin produced by creatine. Creatine provides energy to support our muscle activity, so when we take activity, the creatine in the body will convert to energy, and then the consumption of energy will produce creatinine. So, creatinine is also a kind of waste, and when accumulated, it will have pernicious effects on the body. Fortunately, therefore, because of the filtration and excretion functions of renal glomerulus, creatinine can keep a balance in the body without affecting the health of the body.
Secondly, why the index of creatinine will go up when the patients have kidney disease?
Normally, the creatinine is excreted by renal glomerulus through urine, while when the kidney is damaged, it will be passed out by intestines through dung. But the clearance rate of intestines is far below that of renal glomerulus in normal condition (1mg/min). Consequently, the index of creatinine will go up. Thanks to the functional compensation of kidney, the creatinine index won’t rise obviously when the kidney can still preserve more than 1/3 functions. However, the damage of kidney has been already considerable. When the creatinine is beyond the renal capability of compensation, the index of creatinine will go up obviously. Then various symptoms of kidney diseases come one after another.

The normal index of creatinine is 133umol/L or 1.5mg/dl, and when it goes up to more than 707umol/L, the patients will have to adopt dialysis, which is really a terrible experience for the patients. And from then on, most patients have to depend on the dialysis to excrete toxins. Therefore, patients with kidney disease should receive treatment in time, and Micro-Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell Transplant are effective to control the development of kidney diseases and fundamentally treat the root cause of it. They are worthy of your trust.

2014年10月24日星期五

An Effective Treatment for Renal Failure

All the sufferers with Renal Failure want to get over the dangerous situation and be far away from the agony brought by illness. Then, how to treat Renal Failure?
The early stage of Renal Failure is a key period in treatment, which can lead to a good result if the opportunity is effectively seized. However, if you have a poor choice of treatment, the later period will be difficult to control and many complications will be caused therewith. Renal fibrosis appears in the early stage, and the original reason of Renal Failure is the damage to renal tissues and the complex of the extracellular matrix. Therefore, the main part of treatment is the repair of damaged tissues in kidneys, and the deterioration of renal fibrosis should be prevented.
Is there any effective treatment for Renal Failure?
With the development of medical technology, the treatment of kidney diseases is various, among which, stem cell transplant is widely considered as a safe and reliable one. Stem cells can divide (through mitosis) and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types that human body need and can self-renew to produce more stem cells to help with the growth of human body and rebuild the inner composition of cells, keeping the dynamic balance of body and its ability of restoration and self-cure. There is much superiority in stem cell transplant. First of all, either the autologous stem cells or the allogeneic stem cells need not be matched in types when transplanting; secondly, there are little rejection and almost no side effect; and thirdly, the success rate is high, and there will be no trauma with the simple injection. In addition, those transplanted cells will grow within three months after the injection and the transplant can be done repeatedly.

Stem cell transplant in treating Renal Failure has been used clinically nowadays. Stem cells can be used as seeds to repair damaged tissues or organs, and differentiate into renal parenchyma cells including mesangial cells and glomerular epithelial cells. With the renal intrinsic cells repaired gradually by stem cells, ischemia and anoxia may disappear and disordered electrolyte can be repaired. Along with the blood circulation in whole body, other organs or tissues can be repaired as well, thus many kinds of complications can be get rid of, and the original function of kidneys can be repaired fundamentally. Finally, the phenotype reversion of damaged cells happens through activating the metabolism of intrinsic cells, and renal function recovers naturally.

Do You Believe in Chinese Medicine for Kidney

Do you believe in Chinese medicine? Every subject has its own approach and theory, however, facing the same problem, Chinese medicine and western medicine study the human health and disease in different ways. As for Chinese medicine, it studies the relationship between the nature and human being, between emotion and body, which are not the fields of western medicine.
Maybe you feel that Chinese medicine is so mysterious and it is not a kind of science. Some ordinary plants are mixed and made into a bowl of soup which is easily professed as disease-curable. Others may have some knowledge on Chinese medicine, and they will wave hands and say: No, Chinese medicine is just a kind of philosophical theory and it will not have effects for ages, and at that time the disease condition will already be beyond any help.
Is these statement reasonable? Yes, it can be understood, because you know little about China and Chinese medicine. I will not mention too many theoretical things, and let us see a real case first.
Site: Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital
Name: Ada (an alias for a patient)
Nationality: the Philippines
Disease Condition: Polycystic Kidney Disease. Right kidney: 126*53*45mm. The largest cyst in right kidney: 55*46mm. Left kidney: 162*59*48mmThe largest cyst in left kidney: 48*35mm. (The results comes from the examination done in 2011/10/5)
Since Chinese medicine are adopted in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease hospital, to know the effect of Chinese medicine better, she had a test one week later after her received the characteristic medicine.
The result of this real-time test: Right kidney: 126*50*53mm. The largest cyst in right kidney: 52*45mm. Left kidney: 146*58*54mm. The largest cyst in left kidney: 47*40mm. (The test is done in 2011/10/11)
In addition to the shrink of cysts, the effect is also presented in the aspect of blood circulation. The result of CDFI shows a better renal blood signals after only 7-day treatment. This is an undisputed fact to state the effect of functions of dilating blood vessels and anticoagulation in Chinese medicine used in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital.
If you know a little about Polycystic Kidney Disease, you will know that this disease is a genetic kidney disease and is incurable all around the world. Facing with it, western medicine has no other method but applying dialysis and risky kidney transplant to maintain the human life. Patients will under great agonies in all their remnant life. What's worse, the cysts in kidneys will grow up persistently and bring more and more sufferings.
How about the case in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital? The size of cysts become smaller in only SEVEN days. Those who states that Chinese medicine takes a rather long time to take effects must be speechless when confronting with this fact.
What is the key point for this fabulous effect? Yes, the answer is Chinese Medicine. Believe it or not, it is right the ordinary herb that has great effect on treating the intractable disease. What's more that I want to express is, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital is the very institution that is specialized in adopting Chinese medicine to treat kidney disease. Also, in Chinese medicine there is no side effect which is the deadly defect of western medicine, and in this hospital, the medicine is just externally used which is much more safe and directly effective in the disease focus.

So far, you may feel astonished because the effect of Chinese medicine is far beyond your imagination. Definitely, those are not random-collected herbs in the grass, they are the valuable medicines which has been proved by innumerable cases through thousands of years in China. That is a kind of culture and we Chinese people love and inherit it with great efforts. Only this case in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital can be an excellent example for Chinese medicine and the obvious effect can speak for itself.

I Have Polycystic Kidney any Treatment for Cysts

In our hospital, there is the joint application of Stem Cell Transplant and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy
Is there any risk involve in this treatment?
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy develops from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), in which most of the materials are herbs. Others are animals, original minerals. Hence it is a natural remedy. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy just change the using way of the medicine. Usually it needs to be taken orally. But in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, herbs will be micronized and osmosed into kidney lesion from skin with the help of osmosis devices. This therapy has no side effects and you do not need any surgeries. Your cysts on kidney will stop growing after you use it.
Stem cells transplant utilizes the stem cells, which comes from human body, to repaired impaired kidney functions. It is because stem cells have ability of self-renewing and regenerating new daughter cells which have exactly the same characteristics of the original stem cells. It also has a potential of differentiating various functional cells. Foe kidney disease, stem cells will be introduced into kidney lesions to produce new renal function cells. Hence renal function can be improved after stem cells transplant. But the transplant can not give you a new kidney because the technology is not good enough to do that.

Joint application of Stem Cell Transplant and Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can restrain the developing of your cysts caused by polycystic kidneys disease and repair one’s impaired kidneys. Hence your disease will stop developing without any surgeries. And because Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Is a natural remedy and stem cells transplant use the cells which come from human body. There are no harms to human body. Although there is not a cure at present, early treatment will greatly prolong the life expectancy of people with PKD. With the development of medical science, there will sure be a cure for Polycystic Kidney Disease in the near future. We should receive treatment with much confidence.

2014年10月20日星期一

Is Stem Cell Transplant Suitable for Childhood Nephritic Syndrome (II)

Last time we talked about the symptoms and classifications of Childhood Nephritic Syndrome, this time let’s talk about what we should do after finding the disease and the treatment of it.
·What should we do after finding the disease?
A. As for the children, there are two aspects. Firstly, they must have enough rest. As we all know that children at this age are usually naughty, if they can stay calm and have a rest, their disease is easy to be controlled. Secondly, accept a regular treatment under the direction of doctors. The course of treatment should be long enough, and do not stop the treating easily. There may appear side effects such as obesity, chubby face and hypertrichosis universalis, but all these will disappear after stopping the medicine. The children can stay at home after the disease is controlled in a steady situation.
B. On another aspect, the parents should pay attention to the following things. First, the children can not be too tied. Second, salt-free food is encouraged. Third, change their clothes frequently. Fourth, no public places as possible. Fifth, decrease or stop the medicine optionally is not feasible.
·How can Childhood Nephritic Syndrome be treated?
We are not back on the idea that the children can adopt the hormone therapy as the side effects may affect their future life. Chinese people invented a new therapy which has got praise among the medical field. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy combined stem cell transplant are used by Shijiazhang Kidney Disease Hospital.
Stem cell transplantation technology can pick up the undifferentiated cells and input them into human body, and then the damaged part in the kidneys can give signals and stimulate the stem cells to find them and repair them. As the way of venoclysis instead of operation has been taken, the patients feel no pain during the whole process. In addition, the stem cells are always come from the cord blood, so there is no question about matching types. All these advantages assured that the patients’ intrinsic cells in the kidney can be repaired well so that the renal function can recover, thus the disease can be controlled steadily.

Even though stem cells are the most advanced technology in the world, we cannot depend on it too much. Because if the disease is in its end stage or the patients are not suitable for the treatment, we have to try other ways.

Breakfast for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Patients-PKD Diet

As we all know that breakfast is important for people. It is also important for people with PKD. Keep a healthy breakfast is also helpful to slow the developing of PKD. What kinds of foods are good for PKD patients in the morning? Read on to learn more.
Firstly, cooking all food yourself from locally grown in season produce goes a long way to maintaining the health of cystic organs.
The best types of food for PKD patients are plant based alkaline food and complex carbohydrates such as vegetables, fruits, whole-wheat bread, rolled oats, etc, which helps stabilize blood sugar levels. Toast is a good choice for no stuffing and sugar.
Milk toast and egg toast can be on the list of your breakfast. But when you eat it, it is better to spread little peanut butter or cream for they have high calories and oil. Jam can be put in your list.
Vegetarian breakfast can be: porridge made by yeast powder, Semen sesami nigrum, milk powder, almond powder, and raisin together; one apple or other fruits; yoghourt, some lettuce, a boiled egg and two pieces of whole-wheat bread.
Suggestion for PKD patients
Low salt diet (<5g/d)
Low cholesterol diet (<200g /d)
High fiber diet
Protein intake [0.8g/(kg·d)]
Avoid or limit drinks which contain caffeine
Quit drinking
Quit smoking

The right foods can slow developing of Polycystic Kidney Disease. Patients with PKD need to consult a doctor first for his or her special case. PKD developing can be slowed by paying more attention to daily health care, including a healthy diet and other tips. Early treatment is helpful too. In fact 40% of people with PKD never need dialysis or kidney transplantation. Just pay more attention to how to prevent developing of PKD and follow the tips, you can have a normal life and long life expectancy!

2014年10月17日星期五

Detriment of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic kidney Disease (PKD) is a kind of hereditary kidney disease which characterized with several cysts at renal cortex and renal medulla. There is a misperception among many patients with PKD that they consider this disease is not as severe as other kinds of nephropathy and the damage of it is no more than the extra cysts at the kidney. In fact, it is absolutely wrong. Though the early symptoms of it seem to be too mild to cause obvious discomforts, the detriment of Polycystic Kidney Disease would not be reversed without timely treatment, and it may even develop to Uremia.
Therefore, what are the detriments of Polycystic Kidney Disease on earth?
I Along with the expansion of the cysts, the cysts will squeeze renal resident cells, causing the detriment of renal functions.
II If the development of cyst is allowed, the cysts will become bigger and bigger, and among those patients with the age over 40 years old, it is commonly seen that the cysts have grown into a size more than 4cm. Due to the stretching of those heavy cysts, the kidney will fall down from the previous position, causing various detriments, such as backache, compression of nerve and other organs.
III When the cysts have grown to rupture, the fluid in the cysts is quite easily to induce various infections, which may contribute to the occurrence of other complications, such as sepsis and Acute Renal Failure.
IV Without effective treatment, the detriments of PKD will gradually involve the entire renal units, consequently, the disease will develop into the end stage of nephropathy-End Stage Renal Failure, and there will be little possibility to recover for the patients.

Therefore, in addition to the daily nursing and scientific diet, timely and effective treatment is the fundamental to prevent the detriments of Polycystic Kidney Disease, like the occurrence of Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Renal Failure, and protect the patients from the threatening of Uremia.

Nursing for Diabetic Brain Disease

Diabetic brain disease, among severe diabetic complications, mainly includes diabetic ketoacidosis and diabetic hyperosmolar nonketonic coma. In light conditions, patients may just present consciousness disturbance, such as lethargy, drowsiness or confusion, but patients can still react to external irritation. For the nursing of those patients, besides regular blood sugar test, there are some other aspects that should be paid attention to, which can be seen as follows:
1. Keep close observation to consciousness change so as to know the extent of consciousness disturbance and evaluate the illness condition:
1>visit the patient every two to four hours. For patients suffering from coma, bed frames are needed so as to prevent accidents.
2> call the patient. If patient can be called up, answer questions correctly and soon falls asleep, then it can sleepiness; if the patient can be waken up only with loud voices for many times and can not answer question correctly, it is a drowsiness; if the patient can not be waken up and has no response, then it is a coma.
2. Close observation of temperature, breath, pulse and blood pressure changes
Pay attention for breath depth and make sure whether there exist irregular breathing or suspension. In case of diabetic ketacodosis, there exist deep breath and ketone odor. If conditions such as increased coma, slowed pulse, irregular breathing and different pupil sizes appear, then it is likely that brain edema and brain herniation have developed. Immediate contact with doctors is needed.
3. Keep smooth respiratory tract
Patients had better lie in lateral position and turn the head to one side so as to prevent secretions or vomiting from straying into the trachea and avoid suffocation.
4. Prevent infections in the lungs and urinary tract. Prevent aspiratory or falling pneumonia. Nursing should be intensified if there exist urinary incontinence.
5. Pay attention to oral nursing for patients suffering from coma.
6. For diabetics suffering from coma, urine volume at each hour should be recorded carefully. In case oliguria(less than 400ml/24h) occurs, report to the doctors immediately.

7. Confirm enough water and enough nutrients. For patients suffering from coma and have no swallowing abilities, besides liquid supplement through intravenous infusion, nasal lipid food supplement is also needed. As such patients usually suffer from worse gastrointestinal function and severe acidosis, high-energy and digestible liquid that can not impair gastrointestinal mucosa.

2014年10月16日星期四

What are Common Causes of Chronic Renal Insufficiency

If initial kidney impairment is not treated timely and properly, it will develop into chronic renal insufficiency and advanced kidney disease. What are the common causes of chronic renal insufficiency? We’ll focus on this topic in the following passage so as to help you take better preventive measures at early time.
Chronic glomerular nephritis, including IgA Nephropathy, mesangial proliferative glomerular nephritis, focal segmental glomerularsclerosis(FSGS) and mesangial proliferative glomerular nephritis.
1. Kidney diseases caused by abnormal metabolism, including diabetic nephropathy, renal vascular hypertension, renal arteriosclerosis and so on.
2. Genetic kidney diseases, such as Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and Alport Syndrome. For this type of kidney disease, positive
3. Infectious kidney diseases, such as chronic pyelonephritis and renal tuberculosis.
4. Systemic diseases, such as lupus nephritis, vasculitis and multiple myeloma.
5. Obstructive kidney diseases, such as ureter obstruction and urinary tract stones.

There exist five main functional renal intrinsic cells in our body, including glomerular epithelial cells, glomerular endothelial cells, mesangial cells, tubular epithelial cells and renal interstial fibrolasts. External symptoms of renal insufficiency, such as proteinuria and hematuria, are reflections of impairment in certain renal intrinsic cell. In the deteriorating course of renal intrinsic cells, the healthy kidney cells are impaired, then severely injured and finally get totally necrotic. The necrotic cells can not be reversed by any medication. So we apply stem cell transplant so as to replenish more healthy nephrons, thus helping renal insufficiency patients improve kidney function effectively.

General Symptoms of End Stage Chronic Kidney Disease

End Stage Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is also called Uremia, which means that there are less than 15% of renal function remains in the patients’ kidneys. As it is life-threatening, many doctors call it “The Second Cancer” and have no idea to treat it. Therefore, it is necessary for patients with CKD know something about it and try their best to avoid it.
What are the general symptoms of end stage CKD?
● The Brain and Nervous System
With CKD progressing, patients may feel fatigue easily, and always have a headache accompanied with dizziness. It is difficult for them to understand any complex theory or to recite an article. As the end stage CKD becomes worse, patients can become disoriented or confused, develop slurred speech, suffer from seizures and eventually fall into a coma.
● Stomach and Intestines
At the beginning of end stage CKD, patients are likely to have a poor appetite or digestion which is a signal of the damage in stomach. Later, they will have nausea, vomiting and diarrhea accompanied with bleeding of gastrointestinal tract.
● Blood and Heart Vessel System
End stage of CKD is similar to chronic renal failure which may lead to heart failure and arrhythmia by means of Renal Hypertension, Acidosis, Hyperkalemia or Anemia.
●Lungs
Patients with end stage CKD tend to breath in a slow and deep way with a bad smell in mouth. Some diseases may appear in the lungs such as edema and calcification.
●Skin
Skin itch is common among the patients with CKD. In the end stage, the itch can be more severe than before and influence the sleep quality.

These are five aspects that patients with CKD may have to suffer from, and they will be more severe than that in stage four or appear in a new way. In this period, most patients will choose dialysis to control the disease which is a necessary measure but not the perfect one. To treat the disease fundamentally they should try to find some new ways such as Chinese Medicine and stem cell transplant which can treat the disease from the root and even help some patients stay far away from dialysis.

2014年10月15日星期三

Skin Itch in the Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Skin itch is one of the most common symptoms of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), especially in those with end stage kidney disease. In some patients, skin itch occurs intermittently and lasts only several minutes, but other patients suffer from prolonged periods of severe pruritus, which can occur throughout day and night. With time passing by, patients may have a different color in skin, their spirits may turn to blue and they even cannot sleep well in the night.
▼ Why does skin itch occur to patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? The metabolin of ammonia maintained in the body can stimulate the sebaceous gland and sweat gland to shrink, and then make the skin dry and desquamate in different degree. The skin may look like fish scales and patient may have skin itch.
Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease always have a high level of parathyroid hormone which can stimulate the mastocytes to release histamine and cause skin itch. In addition, high level of parathyroid hormone is easy to cause Hypercalcemia, leading to the deposition of Ca in the skin and make people have skin itch.
1. The skin itch also can be cause by the changes in the nerves of the patients with Uremia (the end stage of CKD), this is a type of Neurological Pruritus.
2. Some CKD sufferers are easy to be allergic which can also cause skin itch.
▼ How can we deal with skin itch?
The skin itch is so boring that it can make the patients despair and loss love for life. Then what can we do to deal with this problem?
1. We can limit the intake of protein and phosphorus strictly. This is always the most common limitation for the CKD sufferers, as the two things can affect their health in many ways.
2. Use some medicines to control the symptoms. In western country, there are several kinds of medicines as follows. Antihistamines such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl). Corticosteroids such as hydrocortisone topical cream. Counterirritants, such as mint oil, menthol, or camphor.
3. As for those patients whose itch feelings have not been remitted, they can consider to resect the gley's glands.

Patients with end stage Chronic Kidney Disease are at a higher risk to have pruritus; therefore, they should pay more attention to the symptoms and have a timely treatment as soon as possible.

Stem Cell Transplant for Childhood Nephritic Syndrome? (I)

Childhood Nephritic Syndrome is a common disease among children in nowadays, what are the specific symptoms of it? Is it serious? Let’s learn some basic information about it.
A 3-6 year old child is easy to get Childhood Nephritic Syndrome, with a higher rate in boy than that in girl. The direct reason of it is unclear, so mere of treatments can fundamentally treat it, which leads to the recurring and extending of the disease directly.
However, the children are allowed to go to kindergarten when the disease is under a strict control, and it is possible to help the children recover if the kindergarten can assure the nursing care.
What are the symptoms of Childhood Nephritic Syndrome?
· Edema (swelling). The most common one among all the symptoms is edema which is also the one found by parents at the beginning. Swelling may start with eyelid, face and then go through the whole body gradually with a property of pitting. There may appear serous effusion such as hydrothorax, ascites, and even hydrocele in a boy. Apart from that, the weight can increase in a proportion of 30%-50%; stretch marks and purple striae can be seen on the internal wall of thigh and the upper arm as well as abdomen if the disease is severe. Meanwhile, the urine quantity may decrease. What we needn’t worry about is that the degree of edema is not related to the prognosis.
·Protein malnutrition. Long-term lack of protein is easy to cause protein malnutrition with the manifestations including pale face, dry skin, dry hair in yellow, transverse white bands of nails, vulnerable earlap, and nasal cartilages and so on. Besides, the children may have no spirit and feel tired easily, the appetite decrease with diarrhea, all these symptoms are relate to edemas in intestinal mucosa or infection. Moreover, children with this disease are in high risk of falling behind in growth instead by high blood pressure and hematuria.
Are their any classifications of the disease?
A. Primary kidney disease. It is related to the disorder of immunologic function in the organism.
B. Simplicity renal disease. This is the most common one which is usually seen among the children in 2-7 years old. 90% of the patients have a slight change in the kidneys without hypertension or hematuresis.
C. Nephritis. It can be found among children elder than seven-year-old. Apart from the symptoms of renal disease, there may appear hypertension or hematuresis. There may have Membrane proliferative type and sclerosis type other than mild change.
D. Secondary kidney disease. It may developed from Malaria, mosquito bites, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Henoch-Schӧnlein Purpura, drug poisoning etc.

E. Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome. This type is rarely seen and usually starts from infant period.

Chinese Herb Bath in Treating Chronic Kidney Disease

Chinese herb bath is to Chronic Kidney Disease what SPA is to beauty in China. As a popular way to help people to release and to keep beauty, SPA is now popular all over the world, while Chinese herb bath is rarely known by people. What are the functions of Chinese herb bath and what functions does it have in treating Chronic Kidney Disease then?
◆ I. Promoting the blood circulation.
The study of modern scientists have proved that the ways of Chinese herb bath such as fumigation-washing, fumigation, dipping bath can help to promote the blood circulation effectively. The combination of medicine and heat can speed up the skin absorption of medicine, improve the temperature of skin, as well as expend the blood vessels, and then promote the circulation of blood and lymph. Step by step, the systemic circulation system can get a better condition so that the circulation in kidneys can also be promoted, leading to the recovery of renal function.
◆ II. Using sweat to excrete wastes in the body.
The promoting of blood circulation is helpful to the excretion of the wastes in the whole body. Moreover, during this process, part of the wastes and toxins can be excreted through sweat. In this step, the renal burden can be lightened as they are the mainly excretory organs in the body. The two functions of Chinese herb bath can help to make the patients with Chronic Kidney Disease feel better in a short period of time.
◆ III. Recovering the renal function by repairing the damaged cells.
The element in the medicine can go through the body with the circulation system, and during this process their effective part can go to the damaged cells in the kidneys, and then they can repair these cells directly so that Chronic Kidney Disease can be treated effectively.
◆ IV. Strengthening the immunity and releasing tiredness.
Mild stimulation is able to strengthen the phagocytic function of reticuloendothelial system (RES) and the metabolism of the body and with the function of medical element, the immunity of the body can be promoted. In addition, the patients’ feeling of Chinese herb bath is just like taking a shower in hot water, which is always a kind of enjoyment, and the feeling of tiredness can be released.
◆ V. Calming the nerves and improving the quality of sleep.
The mild stimulation of Chinese herb bath can expend the vessels and skins pores so that the body can keep in a relaxed state, thus the patients can feel easy and comfortable, and then have better sleep quality.

These five functions of Chinese Herb Bath interact with each other and protect our body all-roundly, in order that patients with Chronic Kidney Disease can have a better recovery as soon as possible.

2014年10月14日星期二

Types of IgA Nephropathy and Its Symptoms

IgA Nephropathy is a symptom complex of several nephropathies with the same immunopathological features. It has various clinical manifestations and pathological features, and can be classified into several clinical types.
In total, IgA Nephropathy can be divided into seven types in clinic:
I Type of Solitary Microscopic Hematuria: It is characterized with the solitary microscopic hematuria, and usually without the symptoms of proteinuria, high blood pressure, renal insufficiency and anemia. Patients with this type of IgA Nephropathy usually have a stable condition and it usually has a good prognosis.
II Type of Asymptomatically Abnormal Urinalysis Test: This type of IgA Nephropathy is the most commonly seen one. Its main clinical symptoms include microscopic hematuria, medium or small amount of proteinuria. As to most of the patients, this type of IgA Nephropathy have a good prognosis, while some cases may develop into Chronic Renal Failure, due to the little attachment with those symtoms.
III Type of Recurrent Gross Hematuria: This type of IgA Nephropathy is commonly seen among pupils and youth, which is likely induced by upper respiratory tract infection, overwork and so on. The urine of this type of patients presents with the change of colour, such as looking brown, like the water after washing meat, flavored tea, coca, soy sauce, etc. This type of IgA Nephropathy usually has a good prognosis as well.
IV Type of Vasculitis: Clinical hematuria is an obvious symptom of patients with this type of IgA Nephropathy. Besides, amenia and high creatinine are the features of this type when compared with others. Some severe patients may even present with Acute Renal Failure. This type of IgA Nephropathy usually has an acute onset, and if patients don’t receive effect treatment, the disease is quite easily to deteriorate, and even causes Chronic Renal Failure.
V Type of Massive Proteinuria: Male patients are more vulnerable to this type of IgA Nephropathy with the symptoms of massive proteinuria (>3.5g/24h), low plasma albumin (<35g/L) and hypercholesterolemia, besides, hypertension and renal insufficiency are also commonly seen among patients with this type of IgA Nephropathy.
VI Type of Hypertension: As to this type of patients, hypertension usually happens with the onset of disease or becomes the obvious symptom in course of the disease. Most patients of this type are males with an average onset age of 35. In clinic, these patients usually present with severe anemia and increased night urine. Moreover, this type of IgA Nephropathy is quite easily to induce renal insufficiency.
VII Type of Renal Failure in Advanced Stage: This type of IgA Nephropathy is the end stage of those six types above. Patients with this type of disease usually have a serum creatinine more than 5mg/dl.

As we can find above, although some types of IgA Nephropathy have mild symptoms and good prognosis, if the patients don’t receive effective treatment in time, IgA Nephropathy will finally arouse Renal Failure, and in that moment, the damage of kidney will not be reversed at all, so patients with IgA Nephropathy need to adopt treatment aggressively, and strive to recover as soon as possible.

Something You Need to Know about Edema in Kidney Disease

Edema is a main symptom among the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome. For most of the patients, the onset of kidney disease is marked with the appearance of edema-edema of lower limbs, face, eyelids, etc. That makes lots of patients have a fear for edema, and they are afraid of that the more serious edema presents, the more serious nephropathy is. Is it rational?
First of all, let’s figure out what are the main causes of edema in Nephrotic Syndrome?
There are two main causes accounting for it:
● The filtration rate of glomerulus declines, while the capability of renal tubules remains normal. It refers to that, when the kidney is damaged, or specifically, the glomerulus is damaged, the excess water which is much more than the normal standard will be filtrated out by the glomerulus. However, the renal tubules still keep a normal capability of reabsorption, so the excess water will be reabsorbed. Consequently, it leads to the retention of water in the body, and then the edema occurs.
● As is known to all, proteinuria is a characteristic symptom of Nephrotic Syndrome. The loss of large amounts of protein in blood leads to the unbalanced pressure between outside-inside of vessels, resulting in the movement of the water from blood vessels to tissue space, finally inducing edema.
For those patients with Nephrotic Syndrome whose kidneys are damaged not very seriously, due to the causes above, they will present with severe edema. It makes them look like a big “water bag”, and some may even suffer from hydrothorax, ascites, and hydropericardium. However, in fact, their pathological changes are mainly confined to minimal change disease and the damage of glomerulus is comparably slight. When treated with hormones and medicine against proteinuria, the patient’s condition will get better soon.
In contrast, as to the patients with chronic kidney disease, though the damage of glomerulus is very serious, the reabsorption capability of tubules declines more severely. In that case, the glomerular filtration rate has dropped dramatically, and the renal tubules can hardly reabsorb water and other nutrition. As a result, there is no retention of water and sodium, thereby, the patients may have no edema or slight edema.

Thus, we can draw a conclusion from that, the basis of edema in Nephrotic Syndrome are retention of sodium and water and the water’s movement to tissue space. Once satisfying the conditions, the patients will present with edema. However, the conditions have no inevitable association with the severity of kidney disease. In another word, there is no direct relation between the extent of edema and the severity of nephropathy.

Disadvantages of Hormone Treatment for Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome

In recent years, the onset of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome dramatically increases, that means more children become the sufferer of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome. After these poor kids are hospitalized, many parents will find that doctors usually take hormone to treat this disease as a chief means, they may wonder whether it is good to use hormone to treat their kids. Indeed, this treatment has its effect on the controlling of development of disease, but its disadvantages should not be ignored as well. The following will give an explanation about the side effect of hormone in details.
Totally, the disadvantages can be classified into two points:
I. Relying on hormone treatment for a long time, the kids will present with central obesity, moon face (face looks like a full moon) and other clinic symptoms. These obvious symptoms exactly result from the side effects of hormone. Adopting hormone treatment for a ling time will cause the adrenal cortex and thyroid dysfunction of the kids, in addition, it can also cause the external metabolic disturbances of esters and carbohydrate, these reasons above account for the appearance of obesity and moon face. The side effects of hormone are not only confined into the obesity and moon face, in fact, it has involved the systems of whole body, such as edema aroused by severe retention of water and sodium. What's worse, using hormone treatment with large dose for a long period will inhibit the kids' growing.
II. Taking hormone treatment for a long period will cause immunity declining. And the immune dysfunctions can not only affects the treatments but also arouse infections, such as acute upper respiratory infection, pneumonia, skin infection and urinary tract infection, etc. Some infections may even arouse relapse of other disease or the spread of infections. And there is one point needing a high attention to the parents: if your kids are treated with cortical hormone, you have to keep on alert, for that cortical hormone usually masks the symptoms of infectious diseases, if you ignore these infections and take unfitted medicine for your children, the disease may deteriorates or even threaten the life.

Since hormone treatment has so severe side effects, the parents may wonder whether there is a way to treat their kids effectively and safely. As to this, Micro--Chinese Medicine with other complementary therapy may help you to realize it, and the earlier to receive, the easier to treat the disease. To know more about the treatment of this disease, please contact with our consultant on line, or send email to me.

2014年10月13日星期一

Detailed Dietary Prescription for Diabetics

Dietary therapy plays an important role in comprehensive treatment measures for diabetes. A proper diet can help to keep blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure within normal range, thus reducing chances of diabetic complications, such as coronary disease, stroke, kidneys and neuroligocal complications.
First, calculate whether your body weight is within normal range:
Standard body weight:your height-105( 100 for diabetics over 40 years old)
Your persent body weight condition=[(real body weight-standard body weight)÷standard body weight]×100%
Severe obesity≥20% overweight≥10% slim≥-10% thin≥-20‰
Now, after the calculation, you can know which group you belong to:
1. Normal 2. Overweight 3. Obesity 4. Thin
Second, the required energies according to the labor intensity are listed as follows (kcal/kg.day)
Overweight or obesity Normal body weight Insufficient bldy weight or thiness
Rest state 202530
Light labor 253035
Moderate labor 303540
Severe labor 354045
Total energies that is needed per day can be calculated from above.
Third, have a calculation for nutrients per day:
Carbohydrate needed per day=[ total energies-(protein amount×4 + fat amount×9)]/4
Proteins needed per day=body weight(㎏)×(0.6~0.8)
Fat needed per day=body weight(㎏)×1.0
Finally, from the above, a dietary prescription can be designed according to your own condition. Some tips for you diet are as follows for your reference:
1. Generally, diabetics should take more grains, such as whole wheat flour, commeal, millet and buckwheat surface.
2. Oil intake per day should be no more than 50g.
3. Meat should be controlled within 50g to 100g, but diabetics with high blood lipid had better give it up.
4. Vegetables containing high energies should be controlled, including carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro and so on.
4. Fry and boiling are best cooking methods, and the diet should be low in salt.

5. Limit or give up snacks which may bring some added energies.

Detailed Dietary Prescription for Diabetics

Dietary therapy plays an important role in comprehensive treatment measures for diabetes. A proper diet can help to keep blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure within normal range, thus reducing chances of diabetic complications, such as coronary disease, stroke, kidneys and neuroligocal complications.
First, calculate whether your body weight is within normal range:
Standard body weight:your height-105( 100 for diabetics over 40 years old)
Your persent body weight condition=[(real body weight-standard body weight)÷standard body weight]×100%
Severe obesity≥20% overweight≥10% slim≥-10% thin≥-20‰
Now, after the calculation, you can know which group you belong to:
1. Normal 2. Overweight 3. Obesity 4. Thin
Second, the required energies according to the labor intensity are listed as follows (kcal/kg.day)
Overweight or obesity Normal body weight Insufficient bldy weight or thiness
Rest state 202530
Light labor 253035
Moderate labor 303540
Severe labor 354045
Total energies that is needed per day can be calculated from above.
Third, have a calculation for nutrients per day:
Carbohydrate needed per day=[ total energies-(protein amount×4 + fat amount×9)]/4
Proteins needed per day=body weight(㎏)×(0.6~0.8)
Fat needed per day=body weight(㎏)×1.0
Finally, from the above, a dietary prescription can be designed according to your own condition. Some tips for you diet are as follows for your reference:
1. Generally, diabetics should take more grains, such as whole wheat flour, commeal, millet and buckwheat surface.
2. Oil intake per day should be no more than 50g.
3. Meat should be controlled within 50g to 100g, but diabetics with high blood lipid had better give it up.
4. Vegetables containing high energies should be controlled, including carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro and so on.
4. Fry and boiling are best cooking methods, and the diet should be low in salt.

5. Limit or give up snacks which may bring some added energies.

Stem Cell ---A New Way to Treat IgA Nephropathy

◆ What is IgA Nephropathy?
IgA Nephropathy derives its name from deposits of Immunoglobulin A (IgA) in a granular pattern in the mesangium (by immunofluorescence), a region of the renal glomerulus.
The reason for why people get the disease is that the decrease of their immunity gives a chance to bacteria to invade the body, causing infection in the mucosae of the upper respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal tract. Thus the abnormal IgA in human body can have the quality of antigenicity and stimulate the organisms to produce antibodies respectively, and then form antigen-antibody complex which is closely related to the binding protein of glomerular mesangial cells and its receptors. If the complex combines with the binding protein, they can affect the mesangial cells to proliferate and activate as well as secrete inflammatory factors, which is easy to stimulate the production of IgA antibody so that large amount of IgA may deposit in the mesangial area, finally cause ischemia and anoxia in the kidneys.
◆ How do stem cells treat IgA Nephropathy?
From the information above we can see that IgA Nephropathy is a kind of autoimmune disease, we must reconstruct the immune system in the whole body if we want to treat the disease fundamentally. Are stem cells able to do this project and why?
Here let us learn some unique properties of stem cells.
▲ Firstly, stem cells are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods. That is to say, one stem cell may divide into millions of stem cells in the body during a certain period. Therefore, if a person need to transplant stem cells, only one or two times is enough.
▲ Secondly, stem cells are unspecialized. At the very beginning, stem cells are divided from the parent stem cells which do not have any specific abilities, and they are possible to keep this property if they can divide themselves into other unspecialized cells.
▲ Thirdly, stem cells can give rise to specialized cells. Although they are unspecialized, they can differentiate into many kinds of specialized cells which can perform different functions in various tissues such as muscle, blood, and nerves.

All the three properties assured that stem cells are able to rebuild the immune system in the body, thus IgA Nephropathy can be treated effectively and the patients can live a life with high quality.

Is Kidney Transplant the Best Way for CKD

If you are a patient with end stage Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) or Renal Failure (CRF), you are likely to be suggested to accept a new kidney by transplantation. You may wonder whether kidney transplant is the best way to treat your disease, and whether there is any other way can save your life. Don’t worry about that so much, and here is some information about kidney transplant.
◆ What should you do before and after kidney transplant?
If you want to accept kidney transplant, you should make sure at first that you do not have significant heart, lung, liver disease or other diseases such as cancer which might decrease your life span.
Secondly, you have to wait for a donated kidney which is suitable for your body, during that time, you need to keep taking dialysis to control your disease.
However, there are some risks and drawbacks after accepting the transplantation.
1. To reduce the rejection of the new kidney, you have to take medicines called immunosuppressants, including cyclosporine or tacrolimus. Keep in mind that you must take medicines under the direction of your doctors, because any nonprescription medicines, such as cold remedies may cause problems with your anti-rejection medicines.
2. You should protect yourself from any kinds of infections and stay far away from crowd of people as your immune system is no longer as well as before, and there is more risk for you to be infected than others.
3. With the assurance of modern technology, patients can live about five to ten years with the new kidney after the operation.
◆ Is there any other way to treat end stage Chronic Kidney Disease?
To accept kidney transplant is a comprehensive project and you should be discreet before making the decision. Try to find some other ways to control the disease and learn more knowledge about kidney disease.
In fact, apart from transplantation, there are some other measures can be taken to control CKD and CRF with a satisfying result, for instance, Chinese medicine and stem cell transplantation. Both of them can help you live a normal life with the illness through treating your disease fundamentally and rebuilding your immune system.

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