Overview about Membranous Nephropathy

Membranous Nephropathy, as a horrible disease, has deprived so many people's life. It is common in our daily life and we can hear someone is diagnosed as Membranous Nephropathy from time to time. Well what is Membranous Nephropathy? How does it affect us? Learning about the basic knowledge about it can help us to some extend prevent it.
What is Membranous Nephropathy?
Membranous Nephropathy actually is a kind of kidney disease with poor prognosis. It usually occurs without being noticed by patients, which is the reason why people are diagnosed with Membranous Nephropathy in advanced stage when they notice they have this disease.
For all the Membranous Nephropathy patients, they can be detected to have large amounts of immune complexes in their epithelial cell of glomerular blood capillary. This disease is more common among people with age over 40 and mostly they notice they have kidney problem because they found they have a series of abnormal symptoms like proteinuria, swelling and so on. However, about 20% Membranous Nephropathy have no symptoms even if they have suffered from this disease for a long time and for these patients, they are more likely to suffer from kidney failure.
What is the treatment for Membranous Nephropathy?
According to clinical survey, kidney damages in Membranous Nephropathy occur because large amounts of immune complexes deposit in epithelial cell of glomerular blood capillary. These immune complexes deposit in kidneys and cause inflammatory reaction which not only help to remove immune complexes, meanwhile damage our renal intrinsic cells. Thereby, if we want to stop Membranous Nephropathy from developing into kidney failure, we must remove these immune complexes.
Immunotherapy is a natural treatment which treats Membranous Nephropathy by means of increasing self-curative ability. Each of us has a powerful immune system, because of which we can be free from various diseases. However, when this system is abnormal or weak, we are susceptible to bacterium and infection. Immunotherapy achieves the purpose of treating diseases through adjusting our immune system. When our immune system becomes normal and strong, these immune complexes will be cleared away little by little.
Membranous Nephropathy is a terrible but treatable diseases, and if we can bring it under control in time, we can continue our life without being affected by it. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment about Membranous Nephropathy is of primary importance.