Disadvantages of Hormone Treatment for Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome

In recent years, the onset of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome dramatically increases, that means more children become the sufferer of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome. After these poor kids are hospitalized, many parents will find that doctors usually take hormone to treat this disease as a chief means, they may wonder whether it is good to use hormone to treat their kids. Indeed, this treatment has its effect on the controlling of development of disease, but its disadvantages should not be ignored as well. The following will give an explanation about the side effect of hormone in details.
Totally, the disadvantages can be classified into two points:
I. Relying on hormone treatment for a long time, the kids will present with central obesity, moon face (face looks like a full moon) and other clinic symptoms. These obvious symptoms exactly result from the side effects of hormone. Adopting hormone treatment for a ling time will cause the adrenal cortex and thyroid dysfunction of the kids, in addition, it can also cause the external metabolic disturbances of esters and carbohydrate, these reasons above account for the appearance of obesity and moon face. The side effects of hormone are not only confined into the obesity and moon face, in fact, it has involved the systems of whole body, such as edema aroused by severe retention of water and sodium. What's worse, using hormone treatment with large dose for a long period will inhibit the kids' growing.
II. Taking hormone treatment for a long period will cause immunity declining. And the immune dysfunctions can not only affects the treatments but also arouse infections, such as acute upper respiratory infection, pneumonia, skin infection and urinary tract infection, etc. Some infections may even arouse relapse of other disease or the spread of infections. And there is one point needing a high attention to the parents: if your kids are treated with cortical hormone, you have to keep on alert, for that cortical hormone usually masks the symptoms of infectious diseases, if you ignore these infections and take unfitted medicine for your children, the disease may deteriorates or even threaten the life.

Since hormone treatment has so severe side effects, the parents may wonder whether there is a way to treat their kids effectively and safely. As to this, Micro--Chinese Medicine with other complementary therapy may help you to realize it, and the earlier to receive, the easier to treat the disease. To know more about the treatment of this disease, please contact with our consultant on line, or send email to me.