Side Effects of Kidney Steroids Treatment

Not only antibiotics, steroids are also commonly used as kidney treatment. In some cases, steroids present patients apparent cure which matches the expectation of kidney disease patients, so steroids are extremely common in kidney disease. However, while steroid helps patients control their kidney problem, they presents patients side effects at the same time.
1. Abusing steroids will break the balance of hormone
Long-term usage of steroids treatment will damage patient's hormone system and cause repairable or uncorrectable physical changes. Uncorrectable physical changes in men include failure of make hormone shrunken testis and mastauxy. For female, too much steroids will cause decrease fat in the body, bad skin, enlarged clitoris and increased androgenic hair and so on.
2. Damage to skeletal muscle
Steroids treatment can damage our skeletal muscle system. Therefore, for children with kidney disease, they especially need to be careful about using steroids treatment.
3. Damages to our cardiovascular system
Steroids treatment damage our cardiovascular system seriously. They can cause some cardiovascular diseases like heart disease and stroke.
Steroids increase low density lipoprotein and meanwhile increase high density lipoprotein, which can worsen blood circulation and cause heart disease and brain diseases.
4. Steroids treatment also can damage our liver
Steroids treatment make liver susceptible to tumor and hematocele. If tumor and hematocele burst, serious haemorrhage will appear.
5. Damages to skin caused by steroids treatment
Steroids treatment cause acne, pustule, excessive secretion of oil in the skin. Also, steroids treatment can induce a series of infectious diseases like hepatitis B.
6. Steroids treatment can affect patient's behaviour
According to research, people who have used steroids treatment are more easy to get anger and also they have a strong tendency toward violence.
These are the common side effects caused by steroids treatment. Besides these, there may be some of other abnormal conditions caused by it. Therefore, if possible, kidney disease patients should avoid using steroids treatment and choose a safe therapy to control their kidney problem.