Common Treatment Methods For Kidney Disease

What are the common treatment methods for kidney disease? Here we will give an introduce about every tratment method for kidney problem.
1. Hormone Therapy
Commonly prednisone, according to the type of disease, patients on prednisone reactions, respectively eight weeks short course of 4-6 months of treatment and 9 to 12 month long course. Short course for the initial treatment of simple nephrotic syndrome, in a long course of treatment for complex, multi-recurrence simple nephrotic syndrome or nephritis nephropathy.
Efficacy judgments: ① hormone-sensitive: Hormone therapy after 8 weeks of urine protein was negative, edema. ② hormone-sensitive parts: the treatment of edema 8 weeks, but urinary protein still ten ~ ten ten, ③ the treatment of steroid-resistant full eight weeks, proteinuria was still ten ten or more; ④ hormone-dependent: Hormone therapy urine protein was negative However, after withdrawal or reduction "+" appears above the amount of medication again or restore urine protein was negative after two or more (except for infections and other factors). These changes mean urinary distributed in 7 to 10 days three times a urine test results.
2. Immunosuppressive agents
Side effects of hormone therapy ineffective or too large cases can be used in combination immunosuppressive therapy, commonly used with vincristine, TWP, cyclic amines, sulfur birds glanced Yin; ring full amphotericin A and so on.
3. Diuretics
Generally sensitive to hormone therapy cases, medication may be 7 to 10 days after the diuretic, without the use of diuretics. Severe edema can be used diuretics, furosemide is usually used (furosemide) intravenous administration, preferably lost the first dextran can often produce good diuretic effect.
4. Side effects of steroids:
1. weight gain;
2,osteoporosis and osteonecrosis;
3, the body's defenses are weakened, elevated blood glucose, corticosteroids syndrome, gastrointestinal ulcers, electrolyte imbalance and so on.
Hormones and immunosuppressive agents have a certain impact on patient's sexual function. Long-term taking of high doses of prednisone and other corticosteroids will aggravate the severity of sexual function disorders. Almost all immune agents can make testicular atrophy, ovarian damage, leading to spermatogenesis decreased or disappeared, disappeared libido, impotence.
5.Chinese medicine show good effects on kidney disease and the treatment effect is stable, satisfactory and meanwhile it causes no side effects.
Chinese medicine and Western medicine have their own characteristics. When western medicine treat a variety nephritis, nephrotic syndrome (syndrome), renal failure, nephrotic uremia,it only suppress the symptoms not the illness. Western drugs such as hormone therapy can cause many side effects , and also the cost is not low. What is worsen, illness condition relapses easily.Besides, when illness progresses to end stage kidney failure, dialysis or kidney transplant will be the last chance. Dialysis is torturous. Although kidney transplant is helpful to some extent, it is not an ideal method, as it is hard to find a matched kidney.
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