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2013年5月27日星期一

Newest Treatment For Chronic Kidney Failure

What is the newest treatment for chronic kidney failure? Conventional treatment methods for kidney problem is control all the symptoms with oral medicines, which can help to slow down illness condition to some extent. However, over time, chronic kidney failure progresses to end stage and put patients on dialysis or kidney transplant. Well, is there any new treatment that can help chronic kidney failure patients to avoid dialysis or kidney transplant?
In past, there is no such a treatment, but in recent several years, owing to the quick development of medical technology, various methods have been used to treat chronic kidney failure and some of them indeed show obvious treatment effects. Here, we will introduce the newest treatment-immunotherapy for chronic kidney failure.
Immunotherapy is not an independent treatment, but a combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine. Western medicines are famous for its quick and obvious treatment effects in remitting symptoms, but disappointedly, it can not repair kidney damages to improve kidney function. However, for Chinese medicine which is based on herbs, it works relatively slowly, but fortunately, some Chinese herbs can strengthen body cells' self-repairing ability and help them recover. Chinese medicine and western medicine have different advantageous in treating chronic kidney failure and by combining them, treatment effects can be increased greatly.
Chronic kidney failure is a life-threatening illness and if left uncontrolled, it will cause various complications like cardiovascular disease. Therefore, a timely and effective treatment is of great importance for chronic kidney failure patients to increase their life-span and improve their life-quality.

2013年5月15日星期三

Improving End Stage Renal Disease Life Expectancy

How to improve end stage renal disease life expectancy? Kidney disease is a bothersome health problem, as it is incurable and what is worse, it can involve all the systems of our body when develops to end stage. With end stage renal disease, patients may experience various discomforts like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, itchy skin and insomnia and so on. All these discomforts affect their life seriously, so improving end stage renal disease life expectancy becomes more meaningful.
To get life expectancy of end stage renal disease improved, the following several tips are helpful:
1. Tightly control all the symptoms like high blood pressure, proteinuria, hematuria and anemia and so on.
2. If your creatinine is extremely high and you are suffering serious complications like vomiting and itching skin, blood purification will be needed. Blood purification can clear up all metabolic products accumulated in blood. In this way, it can decrease the damage to kidney effectively. Also it can create a favorable environment for restoring the impaired renal cells and tissues. As for the restoring of kidney damages, Immunotherapy is recommended. Immunotherapy combines the advantageous of Chinese medicines and western medicines and show great treatment effects.
3. Arrange your diet to reduce kidney burden
When some kidney tissues are damaged, the residual kidney tissues will work more hardly. Heavy burden may cause damages on these tissues and cause worsening of illness condition. From this point of view, reducing kidney burdens by adjusting diet is necessary. I n general, low-salt diet, low-protein diet and low-phosphorus diet is necessary. (For detailed information about food lists, please leave message to me directly and I will offer you the related information as soon as possible)
4. Having a good mood and this will help to increase immunity indirectly, which is also helpful for improving end stage renal disease life expectancy.

2013年3月17日星期日

The Causes of Renal Failure

Generally, renal failure can be caused by acute renal failure and chronic renal failure. As for the cause of renal failure, we will explain from these two points:
1 Acute renal failure can be caused by the following three factors according to the statistics of recent 30 years:
Firstly, wound, burn wound, bleeding and shock all can lead to acute renal failure.
Secondly, kinds of medicines such as gentamicin, streptomycin, tobramycin can also lead to renal failure. In addition, pesticide and metal can also lead to acute renal nephritis and so on.
Thirdly, stone, tumor, operation can also lead to renal failure.
2. Chronic kidney failure can be caused by the following main factors:
Firstly, high blood pressure or hypertension is a leading cause of kidney failure both in China and America. High blood pressure makes the heart work harder, which will damage the blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidney are damaged, it will stop removing waste and extra-fluid, which will in turn make blood pressure higher even more. In America, about 25,000 new cases of renal failure appear caused by long time high blood pressure.
Secondly, diabetes is another dominate factor which can lead to chronic kidney failure especially in America. In diabetes,beta cells in pancreas is damaged, which can not secrete insulin. The main function of insulin is to convert sugar into energy. If insulin is not enough, sugar will stay in the blood which leads to high blood sugar and cause damage to the blood vessels. When the blood vessels are damaged in the kidney, diabetic kidney diseases will come into being.
Thirdly, PKD,chronic renal glomerular nephritis such as lupus nephritis, purpura nephritis and so on will also can lead to chronic kidney failure if not treated well.

2013年3月13日星期三

Will kidney failure patients finally suffer from dialysis or kidney transplant

“If I have Kidney Disease, will I ultimately need dialysis or kidney transplant?” This is a very common concern for Kidney Disease patients, and I can affirmatively give the answer to them, “No, you needn’t.” Then I will expound my reason in detail.
The stage in which Kidney Disease patients need to dialysis or kidney transplant: every body has two kidneys and in the normal situation, only one kidney is enough to guarantee our life, so the patients needn’t dialysis or kidney transplant if their kidneys can play their function. Patients begin dialysis or receive a kidney transplant only when they reach Stage 5 of Chronic Kidney Disease, the condition known as end-stage renal disease or kidney failure. Most patients’ conditions never progress to that point, so these patients can avoid dialysis and kidney transplant if they take effective treatment in the early stage.
The effective treatment for kidney disease patients—immunotherapy: just like in a wrestling match, only we ourselves are very strong, we can defeat our rivals. So the patients can also defeat their diseases if they have a good internal environment and a strong body. Immunotherapy can help the patients with kidney disease to clean their internal environment and rebuild their body through repairing their immune systems and enhance their ability to fight against the kidney disease. Immunotherapy is divided into six steps, and every step has its own function.
·Comprehensive diagnosis—it can help the doctor to make clear which type the patient’s disease is.
·Immune blocking—it can block patients’ inflammatory reaction and stop the damage of renal inherent cells with the use of some immunosuppressive drugs.
·Immune Tolerance—it can make the patients’ body adapt with these damaged cells and immune complexes through the immunosuppressive agents infusion regularly.
·Immune Adjustment—it can improve the kidney disease patient’s immunity to clear the pathogenic factors and enhance their body through Traditional Chinese medicine therapy especially Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
·Immune Protection—it can help to protect the renal inherent cells from damaging, so these cells can be repaired gradually and the patients can avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.
·Immune Clearance—it can help the patients to remove the pathogenic factors and give back a good internal environment and a strong body to the kidney disease patients.
The earlier diagnosis and the more effective treatment, the less chance of dialysis and kidney transplant will happen on the kidney disease patients. Immunotherapy can help the early-stage patients to avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.

2013年2月28日星期四

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.

2013年2月23日星期六

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.

2013年1月27日星期日

Something You Need to know about kidney failure


Chronic kidney function failure is the final result of various kidney disease. Even though chronic kidney is caused by different reasons, when the disease develop to a stage, that will exist some common mechanism. Various pathogeny lead to chronic kidney disease, and then cause kidney injured, losing kidney unit function, and reduce the number of the kidney unit. In order to make up them, and maintain the normal physiological function, the kidney unit will arise compensatory adaption, and aggravate its workload. Long-playing high load compensatory will make more and more kidney unit suffer damage gradually , GFR will decline gradually, and come to the final stage inevitably, then turn into renal uremia stage. So chronic kidney function failure should be found earlier. It is very important to inspect hazards earlier and interfere with the kidney function failure , reduce and delay it.
Among the different stage of chronic kidney failure, the clinical manifestation is also different. In the chronic kidney failure compensatory and early decompensation , patient may have no symptom, or only lack of power, soreness of waist, nocturia get more and some other mild comfortable. A few of patients decrease their appetite, etaboliaed acidosis or mild anemia. If patients realized earlier and treat the disease earlier, it will be better. But the as usual, patients often don’t attach great importance to that as the clinical feature is so light, and lead to the chronic kidney disease treat belated.

2012年12月24日星期一

How to Prevent Kidney Failure with Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a hereditary disease and many patients believe they will finally suffer from kidney failure. Actually, this is a totally wrong idea. We can avoid kidney failure with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD).
How to prevent kidney failure with Polycystic Kidney Disease?
Polycystic Kidney Disease is marked by a group of cysts in kidneys. These cysts are full of yellow fluid which usually increase over time. With the increase of fluids inside the kidney, kidney cyst becomes larger and larger. Sometime, these cysts my take up the whole kidney and enterocoelia and when kidney function is affected seriously by these enlarged cysts, kidney failure occurs. Thereby, the key point to prevent kidney failure with Polycystic Kidney Disease is to stop kidney cyst from enlarging.
To receive a better treatment effects, the following several factors are necessary.
1. Effective medical treatment
An effective medical treatment is essential for the effective prevention of kidney failure. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is an external used therapy and shows great treatment effects on shrinking kidney cysts. Although it can not help to eliminate all the kidney cysts, but with the help of it, kidney cysts can be shrunk effectively.
2. Scientific diet
A right diet helps to slow down the progression of Polycystic Kidney Disease.Generally speaking, people with PKD need to limit salt intake as high intake of salt not only elevates blood pressure, but also worsen kidney function. Also, to avoid increasing extra renal burden, polycystic kidney disease patients need to ingest some high quality protein which can be found in fish, milk, lean meat and egg white.
3. Develop good living habits
If you have developed bad living habits like smoking and drinking, try to kick them. To prevent PKD from developing kidney failure, you may need to avoid staying up, catching cold, avoid infection and also drastic knock on your waist if there are big cysts on your kidney.
It is quite possible for us to prevent kidney failure with Polycystic Kidney Disease, so do not give up so early. As long as we try our best, we can defeat kidney problem eventually.

2012年12月23日星期日

Kidney Failure Caused by Diabetes

If you are a diabetic and unfortunately told to have protein in urine, I am afraid you are at high risk of suffer from kidney failure. Kidney problem caused by Diabetes is clinically called Diabetic Nephropathy which is one of the leading causes of kidney failure.
Diagnosis of kidney problem among diabetics is marked by protein in urine, which means the first symptom of Diabetic Nephropathy is proteinuria. Without effective control, Diabetic Nephropathy develops to kidney failure directly. We know kidney failure patients are suggested to start dialysis or prepare for kidney transplant when their creatinine level increases to 5. However, for people with kidney failure caused by Diabetes, they need to start dialysis early due to their high blood sugar. High blood sugar not only damage kidney, but also affect patient's eyes, foot and nerve system. Therefore, to protect their other organs, it is better for them to start dialysis early. According to clinical studies, eye problem occurs earlier than kidney problem, so most of the people with kidney failure caused by Diabetes have eye problem.
Diabetic Nephropathy develops to kidney failure quickly, but not everyone with diabetes will definitely suffer from kidney failure. Through effective and right medical treatment, many patients can avoid kidney failure effectively. Besides, even though you have developed kidney failure and started dialysis, you can reduce the frequency of dialysis through Immunotherapy which combines ester medicines and western medicines. Immunotherapy is not the only therapy for Diabetic Nephropathy, but it is the most painless, safe and natural method. Therefore, you can have a try about this. (If you need information about Immunotherapy, you can leave your email to me, I am glad to send to you)
When kidney failure occurs, some diabetics choose dialysis and some others choose kidney transplant. However, not matter what method they choose, they must get their diabetes controlled. Adjustment of diet, tight control of high blood sugar, regular examination and physical exercises all are necessary for improving prognosis.

2012年12月12日星期三

Alternative Treatment Option for Kidney Failure-Immunotherapy


You must think dialysis and kidney transplant are the last two treatment options for kidney failure, as a matter of fact, it is not as you thought. With the rapid development of medical technology, new treatment has been created to help kidney failure patients and it is Immunotherapy. Immunotherapy differs from both dialysis and kidney transplant. It works through combing western medicines and estern medicines. Now let's have a look how Immunotherapy treatment treats kidney failure.
Immunotherapy is an alternative treatment for End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), but it works totally different from both dialysis and kidney transplant. We know dialysis is the method that clear poisonous wastes produced by our body though filtering blood outside the body. And kidney transplant treats kidney failure by means of substitute failed kidneys with a healthy kidney. Both of these two treatments help kidney failure patients keep being alive, but meanwhile, both of them are risky. However, unlike dialysis and kidney transplant, Immunotherapy is natural and it treats kidney failure on the principle that increasing kidney functions.
Alternative treatment of Immunotherapy is based on Chinese herbs which grow naturally in the world and contain no chemical composition, so we need not to worry about any side effects. All the Chinese herbs in Immunotherapy are selected carefully and during the last several thousands years, they have been proven to have function to extend blood vessels, against inflammatory reaction, against coagulation and degrade extracellular matrixes. All these functions are extremely significant for recovering kidney function as well as lowering the incidence of fatal complications.
Immunotherapy has been put in clinical for several years and during the past several years, tens and thousands kidney failure patients have received this alternative treatment. According to clinical statistics, most of patients' symptoms are alleviated greatly. Their kidney functions are increased effectively and they feel much better after Immunotherapy. Also, in some cases, patients on dialysis should get rid of dialysis miraculously. Treatment effects of Immunotherapy are obvious and because of it, kidney failure is not as terrible as before.
As an alternative treatment for kidney failure, Immunotherapy has changed the traditional way to treat kidney problem and also brings us so many miracles.We believe with the help of it, more and more kidney failure patients will suffer less in future.

2012年12月9日星期日

Relationship Between Renal Failure and Constipation


In some cases, renal failure causes constipation which is a bothersome medical condition. In order to solve this problem, some renal failure patients take laxative and this can help to alleviate constipation to some extend, but can not remove it radically. What is worse, long term usage of laxative will cause drug resistance. So how does renal failure cause constipation and is there any alternative way for dealing with constipation?
How does renal failure cause constipation?
1. In some cases, constipation can be a result of long-term restriction of water intake. Because of severe edema (swelling), some patients are not allowed to drink too much water. Long-term restriction of water intake will cause constipation easily.
2. Many renal failure patients need to limit potassium intake and phosphorous intake, so they need to keep be far away from many vegetables and fruits like banana, oranges, potatoes, tomatoes and cucumber and so on. These foods are also rich in fibre, so while they limit potassium intake and phosphorous intake, fibre is also limited at the same time. Being lack of fibre also contributes to constipation.
3. Peritoneal dialysis should especially be blamed for constipation happening in renal failure patients.
How to deal with constipation caused by renal failure?
1. Try to eat more high fibre foods, especially vegetables and fruits because fibre stimulates bowel activity, increase stool bulk and decrease intestinal transit time. So high fibre die is generally encouraged.
2. Drink more water
3.Do more physical exercise which is also very helpful for patients to have a bowel movement.
4. Treat renal failure as a whole. As renal failure is the root cause of occurrence of constipation. Therefore, when renal failure is brought under control or when kidney function is increased greatly, patients need not to limit fluids intake so strictly or do peritoneal dialysis so frequently. Consequently, constipation symptom is alleviated naturally.

2012年12月5日星期三

Life Expectancy with 15% Kidney Function


Do you have kidney function more or less than 15%? Do you know how long can a person live with 15% kidney function and do you want to know your life expectancy?
15% here is just a figure that helps to describe how many kidney function a person, especially a kidney disease patient, have. Based on clinical tests, when an individual has only 15% kidney function, he can be surely diagnosed to have kidney failure, that is to say 15% kidney function always stands for end stage renal disease.
With end stage renal disease, we can not continue our normal life as kidneys fail to excrete wastes, secret hormone and regulate our internal balance. Under such a circumstance, lots of wastes pile up in blood and damage our other internal organs like brain and heart. Therefore, renal failure patients are very likely to suffer from fatal complications which can shorten their life expectancy.
Besides, when a person's kidney function decreases to 15%,he is generally encouraged to start dialysis to further his life. Dialysis is a method for renal failure patients to clear toxins away from their blood, but it is not a real solution in the long run. Also, dialysis can be regarded as a chronic suicide because the longer the patient do dialysis, the more likely that they suffer from fatal complications. Therefore, if renal failure patients really want to increase their life span when they have only 15% of kidney function.
15% kidney function is a vital interim period, if renal failure patients can stop their kidney function from further decreasing and then increase some kidney function, they have great chance to live their rest life without dialysis and without worrying about life-threatening complications that may occur at any time. Disappointingly, if they take no actions, means receive no effective treatment, they will certainly rely on dialysis or kidney transplant in all their rest life.
In conclusion, life expectancy of a patient with 15% kidney function actually depends on his own action.

2012年11月30日星期五

Treatment for Pruritus in Renal Failure


Pruritus, also can be called itch, occurs easily in renal failure patients because of a great deal of toxic substances in blood. Pruritus refers to a sensation that urge people to scratch and it is bothersome. So, treatment should be applied to help renal failure patients reduce sufferings. Well, what is the treatment for pruritus in renal failure?
Treatment for pruritus should has ability of removing or at least alleviating this symptom. So to achieve this purpose, we must find out how renal failure causes pruritus.
Renal failure is a medical condition, during which, kidneys cannot regulate excessive electrolytes, can not display secretion function and also fail to excretes various toxins or toxic substances produced during our metabolism. Due to impaired kidney function, more and more toxins pile up in the blood and stimulate our skin, which can cause pruritus symptom. In this light, treatment for pruritus in renal failure must be able to clear these toxins away from patient's blood.
Treatment for pruritus in renal fialure.
1.Antipruritic medicines or fluids
This treatment is effective for stopping pruritus for a moment, but once patients stop taking medicines, this symptom will reappear, because it fails to clear toxins away from blood.
2.Blood purification technics like dialysis, plasma exchange and immunoadsorption.
Clearing toxic substances away from blood help to alleviate pruritus effectively, but it far from enough to remove pruritus symptom forever. Because of kidney failure, more and more toxins pile up in the blood, so if renal failure patients choose this treatment, they need to do blood purification repeatedly.
3. Immunotherapy
To be honest, Immunotherapy does not focus on treating pruritus, but repairing kidney damages. Even though, compared with the above two treatments, it is the best one. We know it is normal for our body to produce some toxins or toxic substances. In normal cases, these harmful substances can be excreted by our kidneys. However, because of renal failure, these toxins can not be discharged timely, which finally leading to the occurrence of pruritus. Therefore, repairing kidney damages and increasing kidney function is the best solution for removing pruritus in renal failure.
In medical field, many treatments can be applied to stop prurutis caused by renal failure, but while we choose treatment, we need to choose the one which can help us solve problem from the root, instead of the one which just focuses on treating the surface symptom.

2012年10月25日星期四

Gastrointestinal Symptoms of Kidney Failure

Kidney Failure is a medical condition in which kidneys fail to function properly. Kidney is such an important internal organ so that our life fail to continue normally. With kidney failure we may suffer from various symptoms and this article aims at introducing gastrointestinal symptoms caused by kidney failure.
1. Nausea/vomit
Symptom of nausea or vomit especially appears in the morning and it is generally caused by high level of toxins. Toxins stimulate intestines and therefore make patients feel uncomfortable. Generally speaking, the higher the toxins level is, the serious the nausea or vomit symptom is.
2.Poor appetite
Almost all the kidney failure patients can experience poor appetite. Patients may have no appetite even when they face their favorite foods.
3.Bad taste in mouth
Kidney failure patients may also found they have bad taste in their mouth which is mostly caused by high blood urea nitrogen level. Urea nitrogen is the end product of protein and is normally discharged by kidney. However, due to failed kidney, urea nitrogen can not be excreted successfully, as a result of which, blood urea nitrogen increase. In such a case, patients need to limit protein intake, so as to avoid elevating blood urea nitrogen level. Besides, Pay attention to oral hygiene.
4.gastrointestinal bleeding
In cases of kidney failure, gastrointestinal bleeding usually occurs because of Gastric mucosal erosion or peptic ulcer.
The above are the common gastrointestinal symptoms of kidney failure. If there is anything unclear, welcome leave message to us and I will try my best to help you resolve it.

2012年10月24日星期三

How to Deal With Itchy Skin in Kidney Failure

Itchy skin is one of the exasperating symptoms of kidney failure which occurs as the final result of both chronic kidney problem and acute kidney problem. Itchy skin is bothersome as it affects our life seriously. We may can not concentrate on what we are doing and even have to stay awake as we have to scratch frequently. It is so obstructive, so it is necessary for kidney failure patients to learn how to deal with itchy skin in kidney failure.
how does kidney failure cause itchy skin?
Mostly, itchy skin occurs in kidney failure because of high level of toxins in the blood. These toxins are normally discharged by our kidney with our urine, however, because of kidney failure, renal excretion function decreases, as a result of which, toxins can not be excreted timely. They build up in the blood and circulate with our blood. They may reach every part of our body, so every of our internal organs are threatened by kidney. This is the reason, why people experience various symptoms like nausea, poor appetite and dizziness and so on.Usually, itchy skin occurs when toxins stimulate our skin.
how to deal with itchy skin in kidney failure?
There are some methods that can help to remit skin problem:
1. Daub antipruritic, which can make you feel better.
2. Take some anticnesmatic medicines and this also help to remit itching
3. Dialysis: we know itchy skin occurs because of high level of toxins in blood, so when these toxins are removed, itchy skin disappear.
4. Treat kidney problem as a whole: These toxins are generally discharged by our kidney, so as long as we increase our kidney function, toxins will be excreted again by our kidney and as long as toxin level in the blood is not so high, itchy skin will not be a problem.
The above is the introduction about management of itchy skin in kidney failure. If there is any problem, welcome to leave me message.

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