What Causes IgA Nephropathy

In general, IgA nephropathy develops very slowly for many years. However, it still depends on individuals. Some patients with IgA nephropathy just have the symptom of hematuria without other problems, and some of them have end stage kidney disease at last. Then what is IgA nephropathy and what causes IgA nephropathy? Please see the following.
What is IgA nephropathy?
IGA Nephropathy is also called Berger's disease and means that IgA which is an antibody deposit in kidneys. As IgA build up in glomerular mesangia area, leading to inflammation in glomerular, kidneys are impaired and can’t remove wastes and toxins from body. And many symptoms of IgA nephropathy can occur such as hematuria, protein in the blood, high blood pressure and nephrotic syndrome.
There is no cure for IgA nephropathy at present in the world, and what we can do is to alleviate symptoms and slow down development of IgA nephropathy.
What causes IgA nephropathy?
In fact, the real cause of IgA nephropathy is not clear for experts and doctors in the world, but one thing is sure that IgA nephropathy is closely associated with glomerular problems caused by immune complex. Causes of IgA nephropathy may have connections with genetic defects in immune response or immune-complex clearance. Experts and doctors think there is a kind of antigen in body, which is maybe bacterial, viral or endogenous. Thus, the combination of this antigen and genetic defects leads to IgA nephropathy.
Besides, patients with IgA nephropathy have almost no history of kidney problems in their families. So IgA nephropathy is not a inherited disease.

From the above, we don’t know the real cause of IgA nephropathy. What is lucky for us is that we know how to alleviate symptoms and treat IgA nephropathy. Chinese medicines are a very good treatment for IgA nephropathy, which has effective properties of repairing kidney damage and recovering kidney function.