In clinical medicine, only diagnosis of nephrotic syndrome is far from enough, the pathological type of nephrotic syndrome is critical to decide treatment solution. Different pathological types have different treatment methods and prognosis. During treatment, we need to consider wholeness and locality after making sure causes.
Nephrotic syndrome is not an independent disease, but a group of clinical syndromes. Whatever type of kidney disease, it is diagnosed as nephrotic syndrome as long as the patient presents massive proteinuria and hypoproteinemia.
Treatment is different based on different causes. Such as minimal change kidney disease, adult patients can feel the effect after 4-6 weeks’ treatment, while child patients have have effect after 2-3 weeks’ treatment but this kind of disease is easy to relapse; for mebranous nephropathy, it need take longer time to have the effect but it rarely recurs after healing. Therefore, after being diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, the first step is to make sure the causes. Treatment for the causes is the best step to lower proteinuria.
What is the cause of nephrotic syndrome?
The kidney is like a sifter, the key structure is glomerular filtration membrane. If the filtration membrane is damaged, it will cause more leakage of protein in urine. While most damage to filtration membranecome come from immune injury, only a few of cases result from genetic factors.
That is to say, nephrotic syndrome is a kind of immune disease and inflammation immune-mediatedin kidneys. The cause of nephrotic syndrome is immune complex caused by combination of antibody and antigen from different infections of microorganisms infection to human body.
Treatment aiming at only controlling proteinuria and occult blood or making them turn negative will make huge amount of immune complex and destructive substances remain in kidneys. This action of “bandits staying behind the door”will worsen pathological damage, to sclerosis, hyperplasia, necrosis and etc. This kind of treatment does not treat the disease radically, and will cause replase after catching cold or infection.
Therefore, the key point in treating nephritic syndrome in nephrology department in Hebei hepatopathy hospital of traditional Chinese medicine is to discharge remaining immune complex in kidney, stop process of renal fibrosis ,and repair damaged glomerular. Only when the pathological damage is repaired and destructive sunstance is discharged from urine to reverse kidney function and regulate immunity that the relapse can be avoided at the most.
Only the causes get clear, and patients solve the problem from the root with combined chinese medicine and west medicine, good treatment effects can be expected. Many foreign patients come here for treatment just because of the special effect from Chinese medicine.
Only the causes get clear, and patients solve the problem from the root with combined chinese medicine and west medicine, good treatment effects can be expected. Many foreign patients come here for treatment just because of the special effect from Chinese medicine.