Diet that Can Aggravate Chronic Renal Failure

In healthy condition, our kidneys perform continuously to remove the excess fluid and metabolic wastes as well as keep electrolyte balance like potassium, phosphorus and so on. However, for the patients with Chronic Renal Failure, their kidneys fail to function normally. Consequently, the electrolyte balance is disordered and the metabolic wastes build up in their body. In order to relieve their damage to kidneys, they should regulate their daily diet to avoid the aggravation of Chronic Renal Failure.

1. Phosphorus and protein

If you consume too much phosphorus, it can aggravate Renal Failure. Especially for those on dialysis, it can make the dialysis effectiveness discount greatly. The foods with high phosphorus you will need to reduce include seafood like sea-tangle, nori and yolk, honey, animal offals, cheese, yogurt and mild. Also you should limit the food containing high protein. However, if you start dialysis, you may loss a large amount of protein during dialysis process so you need to increase the protein intake instead of limiting it.

2. Sodium and potassium

High blood pressure and edema can put extra burden on kidneys and heart. In order to avoid high blood pressure and swelling, the patients with Chronic Renal Failure should limit the salt intake and the foods containing sodium. Also the kidneys can not discharge the potassium as it has been thus the potassium level in blood is elevated ,which can lead to heart beat irregularities and even threaten their life. The common foods that can attribute Chronic Renal Failure include tomatoes, organs, bananas and dried fruits, as well as in some vegetables such as potatoes, pumpkin and so on.

3. Strict restriction of fluid

To avoid fluid building up in body, you need to keep strict restriction of fluid and limit the water intake per day. In addition, you should also reduce the intake of the foods with high fluid like tomatoes, grapes, melons and so on.
Moreover, if you have Diabetes or are overweight, you should also limit the carbohydrate foods.

The above article has introduced the general dietary principles for the patients with Chronic Renal Failure. However, the disease conditions vary with different patients. Therefore, it is essential for them to male their personalized diet based on their medical reports.

Lupus Nephritis: A Kind of Autoimmune Disease

Lupus Nephritis refers to the inflammation of kidneys caused by systemic lupus erythematosus( SLE). Nearly all patients with SLE have renal damage in varying degrees and approximately half develop Renal Failure.

In healthy condition, our immune systems play important role in preventing the foreign pathological virus and bacteria from invading into our body. However, some people have autoimmune deficiency. When the lupus viruses as antigens invade into their body, the activated immune system fails to defeat them. As a result, the antibodies will form immune complexes deposit in the glomerular epithelial cells. Alternatively, the antigens also bind with the antibodies in kidneys forming immune complexes in situ. For the exclusiveness ability, the body will does their best to remove the immune complexes out of body leading to the immune inflammatory response. When the inflammatory response occurs excessively, it will lead damage to the glomerular epithelial cells. In clinic, the patients will present a series of Lupus Nephritis symptoms.

The conventional therapies for Lupus Nephritis mainly focus on to eliminating proteinuria, high blood pressure or restraining the abnormal inflammatory response. In most cases, the patients with Lupus Nephritis can have obvious improvement after a period of hormone and immunosuppressive treatment. However, when the hormone dosage is reduced or the patients suffer from infection like a mild cold, it will trigger the disease again. Why does Lupus Nephritis relapse frequently? That is because the immune complexes in the glomerular epithelial cells are not cleared up. Therefore, they will lead to continuous immune inflammatory response and cause renal damage persistently.

Therefore, in term of the underlying causes of Lupus Nephritis above, the key in the treatment of Lupus Nephritis is to remove the immune complexes and then regulate their immune system. If these two goals can be achieved, the further renal damage will be inhibited and also prevent the relapse of the disease.

Blood in Urine for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

Q: I am a Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) suffer and the size of the biggest cyst is 14cm. In these days, I find blood in urine. Also I have intense back pain. I really very horrified. Is the bleeding caused by my Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)?

A: Blood in urine is a very common symptom in Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is featured with multiple cysts growing on kidneys. If untreated in time, the cysts will enlarge continuously and occupy more and more abdominal cavity. As a result, the pressure in abdominal cavity increases continuously. Under this condition, even if a mild knock on abdomen can cause cysts to rupture. Moreover, the enlarged cysts also cause oppression to the kidney and surrounding organs thus resulting in cysts rupturing. As there are many capillaries under cyst wall, when the cysts rupture, the blood red cells will enter into urinary tract and finally be discharged into urine. Therefore, you will find blood in your urine. As rupturing cysts can cause damage to kidneys, it is very important for the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) to prevent cyst from rupturing.

Once you find blood in urine, you should go to see a doctor immediately. If it is the result of cysts rupturing, you should take antibiotics treatment to prevent further infection. The patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) should know that cyst rupturing can cause serious damage to kidney function and accelerate Renal Failure. Therefore, it is very essential for the patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) to receive proper treatment to prevent enlargement of cysts as early as possible.

However, in the western medicine, the passive treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) disappoints the patients so much. The patients believe that there is no other treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) at all except dialysis and Kidney Transplant. They just wait for the disease worsening until it develops into Renal Failure.

In China, Chinese herbal medicine is widely used in the treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). The effective integrants not only can stop the cysts enlargement, but also can shrink the enlarged ones to some extent. Therefore, the patients can avoid cysts rupturing.

Is Immunotherapy Helpful for the Patients on Dialysis

Dialysis is an important replacement therapy for the patients with End Stage Renal Failure. It can take over a portion of the kidney function to remove the excess fluid and macromolecular metabolic substances from blood. It can not be denied that dialysis plays a crucial role in maintain the patients’ life. However, at the same time, dialysis carries high risk of developing complications and side effects. It disorders the patients’ routine activity and many of them have to quit their jobs after dialysis. What’s worse, they have to endure a series of complications like heart disease, infection, nausea and so on.

Therefore, many patients are eager to find a better therapy to avoid dialysis. With the development of regenerative medicine development, Immunotherapy makes it possible to get rid of dialysis.

If you are a patient started dialysis recently and still have urine output, it is possible for you to get rid of dialysis by Immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy refers to infusion healthy cells to the patients’ body to replace the impaired cells to function. Immunotherapys are primitive cells in human body with multi-differentiation and regeneration abilities. The characteristics of Immunotherapy maintain the human body’ growth and development and also makes restoring the impaired renal function come true.

Our kidneys function depending on their renal functional cells. However, once the cells are impaired or necrotic, the kidneys will not be able to work well. Therefore, to improve renal function, recovering the function of the damaged and necrotic cells is the crucial step to the improvement of the renal function and makes the patients get rid of dialysis.

Under right condition, Immunotherapy can differentiate into new renal functional cells to replace the necrotic ones to function. In addition, the Immunotherapy also can release some growth factors to stimulate the self-repairing of the impaired cells.

If the renal functional cells can get repaired very well, the renal function will improve greatly. In this way, the patients on dialysis will be able reduce their dialysis frequency and even get rid of it.

You Can Not Neglect the Side Effects of Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy as a new achievement in medicine area has brought infinite hope to patients with Kidney Failure. However, at the same time, it also carries potential side effects and complications. Depending on the type of Immunotherapy, the risk of developing certain complications either increases or decreases. Therefore, it is very important for the patients to choose the type of Immunotherapy performed on them.

The commonly applied bone narrow Immunotherapy in treating various diseases have presented many side effects.

Infection: Immunotherapy can influence the patients’ immune system ability and reduce the number of white blood cells in body. Therefore, the patients will become more susceptible to infection.

Anemia: After Immunotherapy, the patients may experience red blood cells decreasing and subsequent hemoglobin level reduces, which can lead to anemia. Due to anemia, the patients may have fatigue, pale face and so on.

Poor appetite: As for nausea, diarrhea and ulcer, the patients may have poor appetite flowing Immunotherapy. In this case, the patients should adjust their diet to maintain a healthy weight, which is benefit the production of new cells.

However, in our hospital, umbilical cord blood Immunotherapy are applied to treat Kidney Failure. Previously, the cord is discarded after the infant is borne.
However, the recent years’ researches prove the cord blood is abundant of Immunotherapy and they may be the most primitive Immunotherapy in human. As the Immunotherapy in cord blood still have not developed immunity, the Immunotherapy will not cause rejection reaction after infused into recipient’s body. Moreover, the placenta is a natural barrier so the Immunotherapy are not polluted by the foreign virus or bacteria at all, which guarantee the purity of the Immunotherapy.

Therefore, the above characteristics of umbilical cord blood Immunotherapy reduce the risk of developing complications. In clinic, only in some cases, the patients may have high fever following Immunotherapy. However, after a period, their temperature will lower and they will recover their normal life.

If you want to know more information related to Immunotherapy, you can consult us on line or email to renalhealth@hotmail.com.

How to Treat Crescentic Glomerulonephritis Effectively

Crescentic Glomerulonephritis is a kind of serious glomerular disease. It is featured with extensive glomerular crescents (>50%). The small structures (glomeruli) inside the kidneys are damaged seriously. In severe cases of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis, the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) may decline by 50% in 3 month. Therefore, it is very essential for the patients to receive treatment as early as possible once they are diagnosed with Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

Autoimmunity system plays the major role in pathogenesis of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis. The conventional therapies for Crescentic Glomerulonephritis include corticosteroids for relieving for symptoms and medications that can suppress the immune system. Generally speaking, most of the patients’ illness conditions have obvious improvement after a period of hormonetherapy. However, they also carry the dramatic risk of developing severe complications like slow bone growth for children, hair loss, acne, sugar urine and so on. What’s worse, the medications can not clear up the immune complexes deposited in glomeruli so they are very susceptible to trigger new damage to the renal tissues and cells. Therefore, the hormonetherapy can not achieve the goal of treating Crescentic Glomerulonephritis from its underlying cause.

As the disease is caused by autoimmune dysfunction or autoimmune disorder, Immunotherapy is recommended to the patients with Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

1. Blocking the immune inflammatory response

When the immune complexes deposit in glomeruli, the body will do its best to remove them out of body leading to inflammatory response. Once the inflammatory occurs excessively, it will damage the renal tissues and cells. Therefore, blocking the abnormal immune inflammatory response is the first step in the treatment of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

2. Clearing up the immune complexes in glomeruli

Immune complexes are the underlying cause of renal cells and tissues damage. If they are not removed, they will cause new damage to kidney. Therefore, it’s an essential step to remove the immune complexes out of body in the treatment of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis.

3. Prevent the glomeruli from further damage and repair the damaged renal tissues and cells

The immune inflammatory responses have damaged the renal cells and tissues dramatically. In this case, we need to take measures to prevent the further damage and restore the impaired kidneys. In this way, the renal function improves greatly.

Immunotherapy as a new therapy in the treatment of Kidney Disease, it has showed enormous effect and brought infinite hope to the patients.

How to Treat Type 1 Diabetes along with Protein in Urine

Q: I am a patient with more than 11years’ history of Type 1 Diabetes. Recently, I was diagnosed with protein in urine along with high blood pressure. My doctor just told me to lower my blood pressure and blood sugar. However, the foam does not disappear at all. What should I do?

A: The protein in your urine is very likely to be caused by kidney damage. In other words, your Diabetes may have developed into Diabetic Nephropathy. Diabetic Nephropathy is a very common complication of Diabetes and it is also the secondary leading cause of Renal Failure. However, most of the patients with Diabetes just know Diabetic Foot, Heart Disease and other complications of Diabetes, but do not know much about Diabetic Nephropathy. As a result, most of them do not know they have renal damage until they have a lot of protein in urine. At that time, the kidney damage at least has developed into stage 3 and the conventional therapies have not use in reversing the renal function. The long term high blood sugar has caused to serious glomerulosclerosis. Therefore, the kidneys have lost their normal filtration function and can not prevent the protein leakage into urine.

Therefore, to eliminate the protein in urine and recover the renal function as well as control blood sugar, the patients should choose a therapy that is not effective for the treatment of Diabetes and kidney disease. Here Immunotherapy is recommended to the patients with Type 1 Diabetes along with protein in urine.

Immunotherapys in cord blood are the most primitive Immunotherapy in body with infinite multi-differentiation and regeneration abilities. Under right condition, they can differentiate into new cells with the same characteristics as the original cells and new cells with specialized function. In the treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy, after they are infused into body, they can immigrate into the pathological area for their homing ability. Afterwards, they can differentiate into new cells to replace the islet cells and renal functional cells to function. Moreover, the Immunotherapy also can release some growth factors to stimulate the self-repairing of the impaired cells. As a result, pancreas islet and kidney will improve their function greatly and even recover normal. Once the kidney regain their normal function, the protein in urine will disappear afterwards.

Immunotherapy for Child Nephritis

Nephritis is a common disease among children. It often occurs after streptococcal infection flowed by hematuria, edema and hypertension. Although the conservative hormone has certain effect in relieving the symptoms of Child Nephritis, it is very susceptible to relapse. Therefore, frequent relapse of Child Nephritis becomes the most concerned problem by the parents and doctors. Then how to treat Child Nephritis fundamentally and avoid its relapse? Here immunotherapy is recommended to the parents for the treatment of Child Nephritis.

Autoimmune deficiency plays the main role in the incidence of Child Nephritis. When the etiological agents invade into body, the antibodies fail to function well to defeat them. As a result, the antigens bind with the antibodies to form immune complexes and deposit in glomeruli. The body will do their best to remove the immune complexes thus leading to a series of immune inflammatory response. If the immune inflammatory response occurs excessively, it will do much damage to glomeruli and lead to glomerular inflammation. If the inflammatory response is not inhibited, the damage to renal cells and tissues will go on persistently. The conventional hormonetherapy can inhibit the abnormal inflammatory response temporarily. However, once the children encounter inducements, they will trigger the Child Nephritis again. That is because the underlying causes of Child Nephritis-immune complexes have not been cleared up yet. It is very susceptible to cause new damage to renal tissues and cells. The application of immunotherapy makes the effective treatment of Child Nephritis come true.

Removing immune complexes in glomeruli and protecting further damage to kidney are two important processes of immunotherapy.

1. Traditional Chinese herbal medicines have anticoagulation, anti-inflammation and dilation of blood vessels function. They can widen renal arteries and improve the blood circulation. This creates a favorable excretion channel for the immune complexes.

2. Traditional Chinese medicines can degrade the immune complexes. Afterwards, the degraded immune complexes will be passed out into urine. As a result, the underlying cause of Child Nephritis is removed.

3. By the integrant application of Immunotherapy, the medicines protecting renal tissues and cells as well as Chinese herbal medicines, they can repair the damaged cells and replace the necrotic ones so as to improve the renal function fundamentally.

Immunotherapy as a new therapy has showed its enormous effect on the treatment of Child Nephritis and brings infinite hope for the children.

How to Protect Kidneys Well

Kidneys are important organs to our body. They can not only excrete extra fluid out of the body but also regulate electrolyte and PH balance. Some hormones also needed to be produced by kidneys. Once getting kidney disease, you may need to take medicine for a long time and even so, you may not get a satisfactory result with the treatment of mainstream. If the disease is not controlled well, you may have to in the row of waiting for dialysis and even transplant. Instead of the painful and suffering experience of kidney disease, you’d better to protect kidneys in advance.

The first thing you should do is to drink much water. Drinking water can help to excrete metabolic wasters, dilute concentration of toxins in the kidneys, which help kidneys avoid to be damaged. It is even more important for the people with fever, because of the fever, the speed of metabolism will become faster than normal, resulting more produced wastes and toxins.

The second is never replace beverages of water. Over high blood pressure can do harm to kidneys. Caffeine in the beverages is usually cause blood pressure rise. Hence, it is better not to drink too much beverage and replace them with water.
The third one is to control blood pressure actively. With the more and more work press, patients with high blood pressure are becoming more and their age trends to be younger. High blood pressure is the second factor that causing kidney disease.

The fourth one is do not take too much salt. Salt is the most important factor to be blamed of over load of kidneys. About 95% of salt from diet is metabolized by kidney, then, taking too much salt will give kidneys more burden. In addition, the water, which is hard to be excreted because of too much salt in the body, will also put over burden on kidneys.

The fifth is to keep plenty of sleep. Sleep can relax some organs, including kidneys, if your sleep is not enough, thus, your kidneys can not get enough relax, thus, they will be damaged.

Can Chinese Herbal Medicines Cause Kidney Damage

Chinese herbal medicine is a complete medicine system in medicine field. For the effective efficiency and mild effects of Chinese medicines, they are receiving more and more attention. However, as many people lack sufficient understanding of Chinese herbal medicines, kidney damage due to abusing of Chinese herbal medicines occurs frequently. The common reasons for kidney damage are as flows:

1. Mistaken opinions on Chinese herbal medicines

Chinese herbal medicines are mainly composed of herbs from the nature. Every prescription includes several kinds of herbs and they are interdependent to function. The dosage of every herb is in certain proportion and also the doctors need to increase or reduce the herbs dosages based on the severity of the disease. Once the proportion of Chinese herbal medicines is disordered, they will be susceptible to lead to kidney damage. As many unprofessional organizations sell Chinese herbs medicines, it is the main cause for abusing the medicines.

2. Profession separations

At present, the integrant application of western medicine and Chinese medicine is widely applied in the clinical practices. However, the medicines ingredients in the two therapies are very likely to have pharmacologic change resulting in kidney damage. Therefore, the patients should go to professional Chinese medical organization for treatment so as to guarantee the safety on Chinese herbal medicines use.

3. The raw materials of Chinese herbal medicines

The Chinese herbal medicines mainly contain herbs and also contain some minerals and animals (bones, skin and so on). If the raw materials of Chinese herbal medicines are polluted, or the mineral content exceeds the specified level and so on, they will influence the quality of Chinese herbal medicines seriously. If the patients take the substandard Chinese herbal medicines, it will certainly lead to kidney damage. Therefore, the pharmaceutical institutions should have strict restrictions on the quality of the raw materials of Chinese herbal medicines.

In our hospital, we have our own pharmaceutical institutions. Our pharmacists have strict demands on the sources of Chinese herbal medicine and regulate the dosages of medicines according to the patients’ illness severity accurately. In clinical practices of hospital, the application of Chinese herbal medicines has showed dramatic effect in the treatment of Kidney Disease without causing any side effects.

If you want to know more specific information about our therapy, please consult us on line.

How to Treat Nephritis with Immunotherapy

Nephritis refers to the inflammation of glomeruli in kidney. If untreated, it is very susceptible to develop into Renal Failure. Therefore, it is very important for the patients with Nephritis to receive the disease as early as possible.
Immunotherapy has showed its dramatic effect in the treatment of Nephritis.

Autoimmunity plays the major role in Nephritis. In healthy condition, our immune system can prevent the invasion of the foreign pathological substances into our body so we can keep in healthy condition. However, sometimes the immune system has dysfunction or disorder. As a result, it can not protect our body normally. When the foreign pathological substances like virus, bacteria and so on invade into body, the antibodies are activated to fight against them. For immune disorder or disturbance, they fail to defeat them. On the contrary, the antibodies bind with antigens and deposit in glomeruli. The body will do its best to remove the immune complexes leading to inflammatory response. When the response proceeds excessively, it will cause damage to renal tissues and cells.

Therefore, clearing the immune complexes and blocking the excessive inflammatory response are two crucial processes in the treatment of Nephritis.

In immunotherapy, we apply Chinese medicines to clear up the immune complexes. On one hand, the Chinese medicines can degrade immune complexes and then finally the degraded complexes will be secreted from body. On the other hand, Chinese herbal medicines can regulate the patients' autoimmunity and improve their body's clearance ability.

Once the immune complexes are removed, the inducement of inflammatory response will be removed. Therefore, the damage to renal tissues and cells is inhibited.

Moreover, as the immune complexes have damaged the renal tissues and cells, it is essential for us to receive relative treatment to repair the damaged ones and replace the necrotic cells with new ones. In this way, the renal function will improve dramatically and even recover normal.

How to Treat Edema (Swelling) in Acute Glomerulonephritis

Edema (Swelling) is a common symptom in Acute Glomerulonephritis. At first, it mainly appears around the eyelids, faces and ankles. If untreated in time, the patients may develop anasarca, which can cause much burden to kidney and heart. In severe case, it can affect the patients’ breath and even threaten their lives. Therefore, it is very important for the patients with Acute Glomerulonephritis to treat edema (swelling) as early as possible.

Firstly, it is essential for us to know the causes of edema (swelling) in Acute Glomerulonephritis.

On one hand, with the renal function declines, the glomerular filter area reduces. However, the renal tubule still keeps the normal reabsorption ability thus leading to retention of water and sodium. On the other hand, as the glomerular permeability increases, they can not prevent the protein leakage and cause the plasma protein level to decrease. Afterwards, the plasma osmotic pressure reduces. As a result, the fluid infiltrates tissue spaces leading to edema (swelling).

Secondly, how to treat edema (swelling) in Acute Glomerulonephritis?

1. Have enough rest: In the acute period, the patients should stay in bed for about 4~6 weeks. After the disease condition improves and the urine protein is less than 1 gram per day, they can take some activities indoor. If the hematuria and proteinuria do not aggravate after activity, they can take activity outdoor after 1~2 weeks.

2. Eliminate infection: In most cases of Acute Glomerulonephritis, they are caused by streptococcal infection. For the residual preceding streplococcal infection such as amygdalitis, tympanitis and so on in body, the patients should receive treatment as early as possible.

3. Block the immune inflammatory response: In Acute Glomerulonephritis, the patients’ immune system can not protect the patients’ body very well. When the foreign pathological substances invade into body, the antibodies can not defeat them. On the contrary, they deposit in glomeruli or bind with antigens forming immune complexes and then cause inflammatory response thus damaging the renal tissues and cells. As a result, the glomeruli are impaired and can not function normally resulting in edema (swelling). Therefore, clearing up the immune complexes is the premise of blocking the inflammatory response. Once the inflammatory response is inhibited, they will not cause damage to renal tissues and cells any longer.

Afterwards, you need to receive relative treatment to restore the impaired cells and tissues and replace the necrotic ones with new ones. If so, the glomerular function will improve dramatically and even recover normal. Also, it will prevent the protein leakage. Consequently, the edema (swelling) in Acute Glomerulonephritis will certainly disappear.

If you have edema (swelling) for no clear reasons and want to know how to relive it, you can consult us on line.

Immunotherapy for Autoimmune Kidney Disease

In Kidney Disease, more than 95% of them are caused by the immune disorder or abnormality. Immune-mediated Kidney Disease accounts for approximately 20~30% of the cases of End Stage Renal Failure. The current therapy for Autoimmune Kidney Disease is mainly the combination of hormone and immunosuppressive drugs. However, the tremendous side effects can increase the mortality and also can not prevent the relapse of the disease. With the deeper understanding of the immunopathogenesis, a more effective and better-targeted therapy: immunotherapy is introduced into the treatment of Autoimmune Kidney Disease.

In normal case, the immune system prevents the foreign pathological substances from invading into our body. Therefore, our body can keep healthy and well. However, in some cases, the immune system is disordered so it can function normally. When the foreign pathological substances invade into body, the activated antibodies fail to defeat them. On the contrary, the antigens will deposit in glomeruli or bind with the antigens in glomeruli in situ to form immune complexes. The body will does its best to clear up the immune complexes thus leading to immune inflammatory response. When the immune inflammatory response occurs excessively, it is called hypersensitive reaction. It not only can not remove the immune complexes, but also do much harm to renal tissues and cells.

Therefore, to treat Autoimmune Kidney Disease, restraining hypersensitive reaction and clearing up immune complexes are two important processes in immunotherapy.

Firstly, by applying a series of low-side effects of hormones and immunosuppressive drugs, the hypersensitive reaction can be inhibited temporarily. It can stop the further damage to renal tissues and cells.
Secondly, the immune complexes are the inducement of hypersensitive reaction. On one hand, Chinese herb medicine can degrade the immune complexes and then the degraded immune complexes will be discharged out of body by systemic circulation. On the other hand, the Chinese medicine can improve the immunity and improve the body’s clearance ability.

Third, as the immune inflammatory response has damaged the renal tissues and cells. For the multi-differentiation and regeneration abilities of Immunotherapy, Immunotherapy plays the major role in restoring the kidney function.

Immunotherapy treats Autoimmune Kidney Disease from the pathogenesis so it can treat the disease fundamentally.

If you are Kidney Disease suffer and do not know much about this new therapy, you can consult us on line. We will do our best to help you.

Common Sense of Nephrotic Syndrome

Nephrotic syndrome is not a disease but a group of signs and symptoms. It has four obvious characteristics: low protein in blood, high protein in urine, edema or swelling, hyperlipidemia. We can learn it well from the following aspects.

The categories of Nephrotic Syndrome

Nephrotic Syndrome can be caused by two reasons, primary disease and secondary disease. The primary diseases include Minimal Change Disease (MCD), Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and membranous nephropathy (MN). To know which one the primary disease belongs to, a biopsy is often required. Nephrotic Syndrome can also be seen after having a known disease, such as diabetes, cancer, lupus, viral infections, drugs and allergies. When it follows a previous disease, it is often called secondary disease. MCD is the most common cause of Nephrotic Syndrome since approximately 85% children with Nephrotic Syndrome have MCD. As a consequence, the term “Nephrotic Syndrome” is interchangeable with MCD. The second most common cause of Nephrotic Syndrome is FSGS which takes about 3.5% percent among children with Nephrotic Syndrome. The treatment of FSGS is harder than that of MCD. The other causes takes little percent among most common causes of Nephrotic Syndrome.

The symptoms and complications of Nephrotic Syndrome

•massive proteinuria. It is the result of abnormal filtration of glomeruli whose function is to keep necessary substance, such as protein in the blood.

•edema. The appearance of edema is the result of massive lost protein in blood.

•hyperlipidemia

•hypoproteinemia. Without enough protein in blood, it is no doubt to occur.

There are also many complications of nephrotic Syndrome, they are listed as follows:

•Renal vein thrombosis - blood clots

• Increased blood cholesterol, can lead to Atherosclerosis - hardening of the arteries

• Malnutrition

• Skin breakdown

• Infection such as pneumonia

• End Stage Renal Disease

• Congestive Heart Failure

• Pulmonary edema - fluid in the lungs

Without proper treatment, Nephrotic Syndrome will also develop to ESRD (End-stage Renal Disease). Often early treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome gains more satisfactory results than late treatment. Any question, email me at kidneycn186@hotmail.com.

Blood Pressure Fluctuation in Kidney Disease

In Kidney Disease, more than 95% of them are caused by the immune disorder or abnormality. Immune-mediated Kidney Disease accounts for approximately 20~30% of the cases of End Stage Renal Failure. The current therapy for Autoimmune Kidney Disease is mainly the combination of hormone and immunosuppressive drugs. However, the tremendous side effects can increase the mortality and also can not prevent the relapse of the disease. With the deeper understanding of the immunopathogenesis, a more effective and better-targeted therapy: immunotherapy is introduced into the treatment of Autoimmune Kidney Disease.

In normal case, the immune system prevents the foreign pathological substances from invading into our body. Therefore, our body can keep healthy and well. However, in some cases, the immune system is disordered so it can function normally. When the foreign pathological substances invade into body, the activated antibodies fail to defeat them. On the contrary, the antigens will deposit in glomeruli or bind with the antigens in glomeruli in situ to form immune complexes. The body will does its best to clear up the immune complexes thus leading to immune inflammatory response. When the immune inflammatory response occurs excessively, it is called hypersensitive reaction. It not only can not remove the immune complexes, but also do much harm to renal tissues and cells.

Therefore, to treat Autoimmune Kidney Disease, restraining hypersensitive reaction and clearing up immune complexes are two important processes in immunotherapy.

Firstly, by applying a series of low-side effects of hormones and immunosuppressive drugs, the hypersensitive reaction can be inhibited temporarily. It can stop the further damage to renal tissues and cells.

Secondly, the immune complexes are the inducement of hypersensitive reaction. On one hand, Chinese herb medicine can degrade the immune complexes and then the degraded immune complexes will be discharged out of body by systemic circulation. On the other hand, the Chinese medicine can improve the immunity and improve the body’s clearance ability.

Third, as the immune inflammatory response has damaged the renal tissues and cells. For the multi-differentiation and regeneration abilities of Immunotherapy, Immunotherapy plays the major role in restoring the kidney function.

Immunotherapy treats Autoimmune Kidney Disease from the pathogenesis so it can treat the disease fundamentally.

If you are Kidney Disease suffer and do not know much about this new therapy, you can consult us on line. We will do our best to help you.

Could ESRD Still Be Treated after Receiving Dialysis

It is believed that the word ESRD is pretty terrifying. Some of the patients may regard End-stage Renal Failure as the end of their lives and are full of fear or desperate. However, some still hold their promise for some life-saving treatments and keep on searching elsewhere. Could it be treated still even after a year’s dialysis? Should or shouldn’t I give up?

There are some other treatments available elsewhere which could treat your ESRD, of course. So don’t give up before you try. As for End-stage Renal Failure, no matter western medicines or Chinese medicines have their own way to deal with it. Dialysis and kidney transplantation are the few options left and contribute a lot to the life-sustaining effort. Those two last shot are also regarded as the only two treatments for them. Chinese medicine, on the other hand, is totally different from the former one. It offers a chance to help counter with ESRF.

Micro-Chinese Medicine is one of the most effective Chinese medicines. Why it can do the job but other Chinese medicines couldn’t? Ingredients of Micro-Chinese Medicine are carefully screened and tested. Why it matters? Because some certain herbs and Chinese medicines are nephrotoxic, meaning they may be harmful to one’ health and should be definitely avoided. By strict screening and testing our ingredients, we are able to ensure a treatment with no nephrotoxicity. Plus, Micro-Chinese Medicine is just a general concept, meaning different illness conditions would get individualized formula. What’s more, our Micro-Chinese Medicine takes effect with the aid of ultrasonic therapy, which explains why it is called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. Why would we choose ultrasonic therapy instead of orally taking? Oral taking is convenient, of course, but usually irritates one’s stomach and cause appetite problem. More importantly, its efficacy will be greatly discounted if take orally.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, on the contrary, not just overcomes the possible stomach problems, but also strengthens the therapeutic effects. The medicines are packed in pouch and the two pouches will be dipped into certain Chinese medicine concoction for a given time. Those two pouches will be placed in the kidney area of one’s back, with the aid of osmotic device, those active ingredients will be permeated directly into one’s kidneys and takes full effect.

Common Sense of Nephrotic Syndrome

Nephrotic syndrome is not a disease but a group of signs and symptoms. It has four obvious characteristics: low protein in blood, high protein in urine, edema or swelling, hyperlipidemia. We can learn it well from the following aspects.

The categories of Nephrotic Syndrome

Nephrotic Syndrome can be caused by two reasons, primary disease and secondary disease. The primary diseases include Minimal Change Disease (MCD), Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and membranous nephropathy (MN). To know which one the primary disease belongs to, a biopsy is often required. Nephrotic Syndrome can also be seen after having a known disease, such as diabetes, cancer, lupus, viral infections, drugs and allergies. When it follows a previous disease, it is often called secondary disease. MCD is the most common cause of Nephrotic Syndrome since approximately 85% children with Nephrotic Syndrome have MCD. As a consequence, the term “Nephrotic Syndrome” is interchangeable with MCD. The second most common cause of Nephrotic Syndrome is FSGS which takes about 3.5% percent among children with Nephrotic Syndrome. The treatment of FSGS is harder than that of MCD. The other causes takes little percent among most common causes of Nephrotic Syndrome.

The symptoms and complications of Nephrotic Syndrome

•massive proteinuria. It is the result of abnormal filtration of glomeruli whose function is to keep necessary substance, such as protein in the blood.

•edema. The appearance of edema is the result of massive lost protein in blood.

•hyperlipidemia

•hypoproteinemia. Without enough protein in blood, it is no doubt to occur.

There are also many complications of nephrotic Syndrome, they are listed as follows:

•Renal vein thrombosis - blood clots

• Increased blood cholesterol, can lead to Atherosclerosis - hardening of the arteries

• Malnutrition

• Skin breakdown

• Infection such as pneumonia

• End Stage Renal Disease

• Congestive Heart Failure

• Pulmonary edema - fluid in the lungs

Without proper treatment, Nephrotic Syndrome will also develop to ESRD (End-stage Renal Disease). Often early treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome gains more satisfactory results than late treatment. Any question, email me at kidneytreat@hotmail.com.

Blood Pressure Fluctuation in Kidney Disease

In some cases of Kidney Disease, the patients may suffer from fluctuating blood pressure. Their blood pressure may go up and down sharply and frequently. If the fluctuating blood pressure is not controlled effectively, it can do much harm to heart and even threaten the patients’ lives. Therefore, it is essential for the patients to know the causes of the blood pressure fluctuation so as to take relative treatment to control their blood pressure.

1. Renal function decline

The healthy kidneys can secrete a kind of hormone renin that can regulate blood pressure. However, once the kidneys are impaired, more renin will be secreted, which can stimulate the release of angiotensin leading to high blood pressure. Moreover, retention of fluid and sodium retention can cause the renal blood volume to increase. It is also a common cause of high blood pressure.

2. Unhealthy diet

Daily diet has a great influence on blood pressure. If the patients with Kidney Disease do not flow up the low-salt and low-fat dietary principles, it is very likely to elevate their blood pressure. Therefore, the patients should flow their doctors’ recommendation and develop a healthy dietary habit.

3. Irrational medicine use

As the patients with Kidney Disease are often companied by many complications, they need to take various kinds of drugs at one time. In this case, the medicines are very likely to interact leading to fluctuation of blood pressure. Besides, some patients do not flow their doctors’ advices and increase or reduce their medicine dosages blindly. It is also a common cause of fluctuation of blood pressure. Moreover, if the patients with Kidney Disease use diuretic in excess, it can cause too much body fluid to be lost. As a result, the blood volume decreases causing blood pressure to low.

4. Dialysis

If you undergo dialysis, if too much fluid is filtered out from blood, it will cause the blood volume to decrease. As a result, the blood pressure will low.

In order to avoid fluctuation of blood pressure, the patients with Kidney Disease should keep away from the above inducement and take relative treatment to control their blood pressure.

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How Does Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome Occur

Nephrotic Syndrome is very common in children, especially in the preschool children. Its morbidity in boys is higher than in girls. It can lead to excessive protein leakage causing a series of complication and aggravating renal function decline. Therefore, it is very important for the parents to have their children treated as early as possible. Meanwhile, in order to decrease the incidence of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome, it is essential for the parents to know how Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome occurs.

In normal condition, the immune system plays an important role in protecting our body and keeping us healthy. When microorganisms invade into body, the antibodies in body are activated to fight against them.

However, in some cases, the immune system is disordered. When the foreign pathological substances antigens invade into body, the antibodies fail to defeat them. On the contrary, when antibodies encounter and bind to antigens in the circulation, they may form very large complexes that have difficulty staying dissolved in the blood. Afterwards, as there is special combination area for the immune complexes they will deposit in the glomeruli. When the antigen-antibodies complexes deposited in the glomeruli, the body responds by mounting an inflammatory response to remove them. As a result, the inflammation can cause even more damage and impair the function of the glomeruli leading to Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome.

The conventional therapies for Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome mainly include hormonetherapy and immunosuppressive agents. After a period of medicine treatment, most of the patients can have obvious improvement. However, long term hormonetherapy and immunosuppressive agents use can bring enormous side effects to the children. They can slow their bone development and affect their fertility in their further. Therefore, hormonetherapy is not recommended to treat and prevent the relapse of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome.

As disordered immune system is the major cause of Child Nephrotic Syndrome, immunotherapy has showed its dramatic effect in the treatment of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome.

If you are still worrying about the huge side effects of hormones on your children and want to find a better therapy, you can consult us on line.

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Fruits for the Patients with Kidney Disease

Eating a balanced diet is important for good healthy, especially for people with Kidney Disease. As fruits contain abundant vitamins, the patients are often recommended to eat more fruits in their daily diet. However, some fruits may contain substances that can aggravate kidney function. Therefore, the patients with Kidney Disease should know what fruits are beneficial to their health. Here a list of the fruits that benefit to the Kidney Disease patients.

Apples

Apples are rich in fiber and anti-inflammatory properties. They are helpful in reducing cholesterol level and decrease the incidence of complications like heart disease.

Red grapes

Red grapes contain several flavonoids. They can prevent oxidation and reduce the formation of blood clots thus decreasing the incidence of heart disease. Moreover, a kind of flavonoid resveratrol in grapes can promote the production of nitric oxide, which can relax the muscle in blood vessels. In this way, it can promote the blood circulation and relive the renal ischemia and anoxia. In addition, the flavonoids can prevent the renal inflammation.

Cherries

Cherries are abundant of antioxidants that are beneficial in protecting heart. If the patients can eat the fruits daily, it can reduce the renal inflammation.

Strawberries

Strawberries contain two types of antioxidants and lots of vitamin C and fibers. These integrants in strawberries have anti-inflammation properties and also are beneficial in protecting heart health.

Blueberries

Blueberries contain compounds antioxidants anthocyanidins and are also abundant of nutrients, vitamin C and fibers. They can reduce the kidney inflammation. Also the manganese in blueberries can contribute bone health.

If you are or your loved one is Kidney Disease suffer, you should ask your renal dietitian to make a kidney-friendly diet plan and remove the foods that are bad to your kidneys from your daily food list.

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Pathophysiology of Chronic Renal Failure

Pathophysiology of Chronic Renal Failure describes the functional changes during the course of the disease. Due to it, the kidneys can not work properly to maintain their normal functions.

Our kidneys are responsible for filtering blood. However, in Chronic Renal Failure, as the kidneys are impaired, they can not discharge the waste products and excess fluid from blood. As a result, it will cause a series of clinical symptoms.

The water and electrolyte balances are disordered and excess water builds up in body. Excess fluid builds up in body, which can cause swelling. In server case, the patients may experience anasarca. It can put much burden to kidneys and hearts as well as may cause difficulty in breath. Poor kidney function increases the risk of developing iron-deficiency anemia, which causes weakness and fatigue. Since more chemical renin is secreted by kidneys, it can stimulate more angiotensin to be secreted by kidneys leading to high blood pressure. The patients with Chronic Renal Failure are more prone to have infections since the disease weakens the immune system. Moreover, the loss of protein in urine is also an important cause of infections in the patients.

In the exams for Chronic Renal Failure, the blood tests can reveal the abnormal levels of sodium, chlorides and other electrolytes in the blood. For the leakage of protein into urine, the urine tests can present high levels of microalbumin and protein. Also in urine, there are also red blood cells.

If you are diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure, you will be recommended to follow up a low-protein diet and restrict the salt intake, potassium or phosphorus. A healthy diet can correct the water and electrolyte imbalances to some extent and delay the progression of the disease. Meanwhile, the patients should take effective treatment to repair the damaged kidneys so as to improve and even recover the normal renal function.

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How to Discover Chronic Renal Failure (CFR) at Early Time

At beginning of Chronic Renal Failure Disease (CRF), the patients do not present obvious symptoms or unique characteristics. Therefore, more than 80% of the patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) can not receive timely treatment. In most cases, they may have developed End Stage Renal Failure (ESRD) when they go to see a doctor. Therefore, it is very essential for us to learn more about the early symptoms of Chronic Renal Failure (CRF).

1. Swelling around eyelids

Once kidneys are damaged, they lose the function of adjusting the water and electrolyte balance. As a result, excess fluid and sodium build up in body causing swelling. It often appears in their eyelids and low limbs, especially in the morning, but this symptom can relive after activity.

2. Back pain

In some cases of Chronic Renal Failure (CRF), the patients may experience back pain. It is caused by caused renal haemorrhage, the enlarged cysts in PKD and so on. Therefore, if you have persistent back pain, you may be affected by kidney problem.

3. Hypertension

Hypertension and Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) are linked to each other closely. Hypertension can cause kidney damage. In return, kidney disease also can cause high blood pressure. Therefore, if you have a history of hypertension, especially for those with more than 5 years' history, are at high risk of developing kidney disease.

4. Abnormal urine

If the urine color becomes peak or red for no clear reasons, you should go to see a doctor and find if you have renal damage. Moreover, if the kidneys are damaged, you will have increased urination at night or have a mass of foam in the toilet. These mild abnormalities may hint kidney disease.

If you have the above symptoms, you should go to see a nephrologist at once since those are very likely the early signal of Chronic Renal Failure (CRF).

If you have one or several symptoms above and do not know if they are caused by kidney disease, you can consult us on line and we will give you a clear answer.

Prognosis of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)

FSGS stands for Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. It refers to the scarring of the kidneys. FSGS is not an easy disease to treat. If left untreated effectively, most patients with FSGS will eventually develop End Stage Renal Failure and require dialysis or kidney transplant. In most cases, the prognosis of FSGS is poor and the patients will develop End Stage Renal Failure in a few years after diagnosis. At present, FSGS accounts for up to approximately 20% of diagnosis patients. Therefore, it is very important for the patients with FSGS to receive proper treatment to improve the prognosis of FSGS.

Generally, the patients with FSGS are mainly on medication that reduces the amount of protein in urine. These medications are called ACE-inhibitors and ARBs. Moreover, the patients should also receive routine cholesterol treatment to prevent blood clots.

However, these medications for clinical symptoms can not treat the root cause of FSGS at all. Therefore, it can not improve the prognosis of FSGS fundamentally.

In the advanced stage of FSGS, Kidney Transplant is necessary for the patients. However, the disease is very prone to come back after the transplant. The risk of FSGS returning in the transplanted kidney varies from 20~50%. Usually, a return of FSGS in the transplant occurs very soon after the surgery. Therefore, kidney transplant is generally not recommended to the patients with FSGS.

In FSGS, autoimmunity plays the main role in its incidence. The hypersensitive reaction due to the immune complexes in glomeruli is the underlying cause of FSGS. Immunotherapy has showed its unique effect in improving its prognosis and revering the kidneys function.

On one hand, the immunotherapy can suppress the hypersensitive reaction so as to stop further damage to kidneys. Moreover, the application of Chinese herbal medicines can clear up the immune complexes. In this way, it will eliminate the inducement of abnormal immune response.

On the other hand, Immunotherapy can differentiate into new renal functional cells to restore the totally sclerotic glomeruli. Also they also can release some growth agents to stimulate the self-repairing of the impaired glomeruli. In this way, the kidneys will improve and even recover their normal function.

Once the renal function is reversed, the patients will be able to avoid End Stage Renal Failure and improve the prognosis of FSGS dramatically.

Indication and Contraindication of Renal Biopsy

Renal biopsy is an important exam in diagnosis of Kidney Disease. It has very important guidance meanings for the treatment and predicting the disease prognosis. Therefore, it is essential for the patients with Kidney Disease to learn the indications and contradiction of renal biopsy.

Indications of renal biopsy 

1. Primary Kidney Disease

A: Acute Nephritic Syndrome

When the renal function aggravates sharply or the patients are suspected to have Acute Nephritic Syndrome, the patients should take renal biopsy at once.

B: Primary Nephrotic Syndrome

It is essential for the patients with Primary Nephrotic Syndrome to take renal biopsy. It can help them figure out the pathological types to guide its treatment.

C: Asymptomatic hematuria

The patients have asymptomatic hematuria, but can not get a definite clinical diagnosis. It is essential for the patients to take renal biopsy.

D: Asymptomatic proteinuria

Asymptomatic proteinuria lasts for one day, but the clinical exams can not give a clear diagnosis of the abnormal symptom.

2. Secondary or genetic Kidney Disease

In clinic, if the patients are suspected to have Kidney Disease, renal biopsy can help them get a confirmed diagnosis of the disease. In some cases, for the patients with confirmed diagnosis of Kidney Disease, renal biopsy has great significance in guiding treatment and predicting prognosis.

3. Acute Renal Failure

Clinical or lab exams can not give a confirmed diagnosis of the disease cause. In this case, the patients should take renal biopsy at once.

4. Transplanted kidneys

For the patients with transplanted kidneys, if their renal function declines for no clear reasons or they experience serious kidney rejection or are suspected to have the reoccurrence of the primary disease. The patients should have renal biopsy at once.

Contradictions of renal biopsy

Renal biopsy has enormous trauma to the patients. After the check, it is very prone to lead to bleeding, infection and other complications. Therefore, it is essential for the patients to know the contradictions of renal biopsy.

1. The absolute contradictions of renal biopsy

A: The patients have bleeding tendency.

B: Serious high blood pressure.

C: Solitary kidney

D: End stage contractedkidney

2. Relative contradictions of renal biopsy

A: Renal tumor or aneurysm of the renal artery

B: Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) or enlarged kidneys

C: Chronic Renal Failure

D: Obesity

G: Serious ascetic fluid

H: Active pyelonephritis, nephrotuberculosis, hydronephrosis or nephrapostasis

If the above conditions do not accord with your conditions, you can consult us on line to know if you can take renal biopsy.

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Eliminate Metallic Taste in Mouth for Kidney Disease

In some cases of Kidney Disease, the patients may have a strong metallic taste in their mouth. The unpleasant taste can affect their appetite seriously and lead to malnutrition. Therefore, eliminating metallic taste is very important to improve the patients’ nutrition supply and has certain favorable effect in delaying the disease progression.

In healthy condition, the kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and removing metallic wastes and fluid from body as well as keep the minerals balance. However, in Kidney Disease, the kidneys cannot function normally. As a result, excess metabolic wastes will accumulate in bloodstream, which can lead to metallic taste in mouth for the patients with Renal Failure. Here are some advices to relieving the metallic taste in mouth.

*The patients with Renal Failure should pay more attention to their own dental hygiene. They should brush their teeth at least twice a day. To achieve the most favorable results, they should do it in the morning after getting up and again before going to sleep at night.

*The patients with Renal Failure should gargle with mouthwash after brushing to kill any remaining bacteria.

However, these measures only have mild effects on relieving the metallic taste in mouth for Kidney Disease since the metabolic products still remain in body. Therefore, removing the metabolic products is the key for the patients.

On common method is dialysis. However, it can only remove some fluid and metabolic wastes out of body, but can not reverse the renal filtration function at all. With the time going, they will have to consider Kidney Transplant in a short time.

Therefore, restoring the impaired kidneys and recovering the normal renal function is the optimal choice for the patients with Kidney Disease.

Once the kidneys are restored well, they will be able to recover the normal filtration function. As a result, the excess fluid and metabolic wastes will be discharged out of blood. Afterwards, the symptoms of Kidney Disease like metallic taste in mouth, edema, and anemia and so on will disappear.

More information, it is free for you to consult us on line.

What Are the Stages of PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease)

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a hereditary disease and accounts up to 5~10% of the total population with End Stage Renal Failure (ESRF). According to the disease progression regularities, PKD can be divided into 5 stags.

Stage 1 of PKD :emergency period

PKD is a genetic disease. Some people are born with cysts growing on their kidneys. When the cysts are small, the disease is hard to be inspected out. In most of the cases, the patients do not find the disease before 20 years old. However, if there is someone having PKD in the family, the other family members should go for inspection as early as possible to find if they have renal the disease in the first time and take some preventive measures to delay the cysts enlargement.

Stage2 of PKD : growth period

Between 30~40 years old, PKD develops into growth period. At this stage, the cysts enlarge at a very fast speed. In western medicines, there is no an effective therapy for PKD at this stage. The patients just receive some treatments focusing on its symptoms like high blood pressure. In fact, the patients should take active treatment aiming at blocking cysts enlargement and improving blood circulation so as to improve the life expectancy of the patients with PKD.

Stage 3 of PKD : enlargement period

After 40 years old, the cysts will enlarge further at a very fast speed. When the cysts enlarge than 4 cm, PKD develops into enlargement period. With the enlargement of cysts, the patients will have a series of clinical symptoms like back pain, proteinuria, hematuria, high blood pressure and so on.

Stage 4 of PKD : rupture period

If the cysts enlarge continuously, they are very likely to rupture. Once the cysts rupture, the patients should go to see a doctor at once and prevent infection effectively. Moreover, they should take effective treatment to shrink the large cysts and prevent the further enlargement of the cysts.

Stage 5 of PKD : uremia period

In this stage, the patients with PKD will have a series of serious symptoms like anemia, nerve disease, and bone disease and so on. At this stage, the patients should receive proper treatment to repair the impaired renal functional cells so as to improve the renal function. In this way, it is possible for them to avoid dialysis and kidney transplant.

The earlier the patients with  receive PKD treatment, the better the prognosis will be. Therefore, if there is a family history in the family, the family members should do checks regularly so as to find if they are affected by PKD as early as possible.

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Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Symptoms in Women

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a common disease. Both men and women are at high risk of developing the disease. In fact, the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) symptoms in women and men are roughly the same. However, for women’s physiological characteristics, they also present some different symptoms from men. The common symptoms of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in women are as follows:

1. Abnormal menstruation

With the progression of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), the women may experience significant changes in their menstrual cycle or stop menstruating all together. It can affect their sexual function and fertility leading them infertility.

2. Urinary tract infection

Urinary tract infection is more common in women than men. If uncontrolled, it can accelerate the disease progression. Besides the antibiotics treatment, the women should pay more care to their personal hygiene and keep pubes clean.

3. Edema

Edema is an early symptom of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). At first, it appears around eyelids and faces in the morning. In severe case, the women may experience ascetic fluid. It can burden their renal and heart function seriously.

4. Hypertension

Approximately one third of the women with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) will have hypertension along with a series of complications like headache, poor sleep, hypomnesia and so on. In return, hypertension can accelerate the disease progression. Therefore, it is very important for the women to keep their blood pressure within control.

5. Abnormal urine

As the renal function declines, the kidneys can not discharge the fluid from body normally. Hence, the urine output declines. Moreover, the glomerular filtration membrane is impaired so it can not prevent the protein and some red blood cells from leaking into urine. Therefore, the urine will become red or peak colored as well appear foamy.

If you or your loved one has one or several symptoms above, you had better go for further exams to find if you have kidney damage at the first time.

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How to Prevent Kidney Shrinkage

Kidneys are important organs responsible for filtering blood. However, in some cases of Kidney Disease, the patients may experience that the kidneys reduces in size, which are followed by a series of symptoms like the high blood pressure, anemia and so on. Then how does kidney shrinkage occur and how to prevent it? Please read on to this article.

Every kidney is composed of about one million nephrons. In Kidney Disease, once the nephrons are impaired or necrotic, the numbers of the healthy nephrons will decreases. As a result, it will lead to kidney shrinkage and the effective filtration area of the kidneys will also decrease. It is a common cause of kidney shrinkage.

In addition, in some cases of Kidney Disease, for the immune complexes deposited in kidneys, oppression to kidneys caused by cysts and so on, the blood supply to kidneys declines. The kidneys can not get enough oxgen and nutrients supply leading to kidney shrinkage.

Therefore, in order to prevent the further kidney shrinkage and recover the normal function of the impaired kidneys, it is the key to increase the blood supply to kidneys and repair the impaired nephrons.

Here the integrant application of Micro-Chinese Medicine and Immunotherapy is recommended to the patients suffering from kidney shrinkage.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can dilate blood vessels and improve blood circulation. Moreover, the effective ingredients in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can improve the some micronutrients for the self-repairing of the impaired nephrons. In addition, the metabolic wastes and excess fluid will be discharged out of body, which can provide a favorable environment for the application of Immunotherapy.

Therefore, the atrophic kidneys will be able to improve and even improve the normal renal function.

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Massage May Relieve Symptoms of Renal Failure

Massage is an important part in traditional Chinese medicine and dates back 4000 years ago. It can improve health by manipulating muscles and other soft tissues of the body. Based on some researches, massage has certain effect in reliving symptoms of Renal Failure.

For the patients with Renal Failure, as the metabolic products accumulate in body, it can lead to an array of symptoms. The patients will become fatigue and sleepy. However, when night comes, they often find it hard to sleep at night. If untreated, the patients will lose consciousness gradually. Moreover, certain minerals accumulating in body can lead to muscle cramp, itching and so on. Massage as a natural therapy may relieve theses symptoms of Renal Failure and ease their sufferings.

Particular massage techniques may either stimulate or calm the body’s muscles and tissues to create a desired effect. When massage is performed on muscles and soft tissues, some signals are transmitted both to local area and throughout the body. As a result, these signals can help relieve the symptoms of muscle cramp, stimulate blood circulation, clear wastes products as well as induce a claming effect. Therefore, massage can improve the patients’ sleeping quality and alleviate some symptoms.

In Taiwan China, a study is performed to find if massage is effective to alleviate fatigue and depression for Renal Failure patients on dialysis. To be excited, the results of the study revealed a significant decrease in perceived fatigue from the start of the finish of the study for subjects in the experimental group. This experiment actually proves the favorable effects on the patients with Renal Failure.

However, in some cases of Renal Failure, the patients should avoid massage for their special disease conditions. Therefore, before receiving massage, you should learn if you are suitable for it.

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The Process of Renal Fibrosis

Renal fibrosis is a kind of physiopathology change. It refers to a changing process from healthy kidneys, to damaged kidneys and finally totally failed kidneys. If the renal fibrosis process is not inhibited as early as possible, the patients will develop End Stage Renal Failure (ESRF).

In Kidney Diseases, the kidneys suffer infections, inflammation, blood circulation disorder, abnormal immune response and so on. As a result, the renal intrinsic cells are impaired gradually. In the advanced stage of renal fibrosis, a mass of collagen accumulates and deposits in kidneys, which can cause renal parenchyma sclerosis and from scarring. Finally, the kidneys fail completely. Renal fibrosis is featured with the abnormal deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM).

In Kidney Disease, various kinds of causes can damage the renal intrinsic cells and then a series of inflammatory factors are released leading to inflammatory response and increased cell activity. This is the inflammatory response process in Kidney Disease. With the progression of Kidney Disease, the damage to cells is aggravated and the cell phenotype transformation occurs. As a result, the renal intrinsic cells begin to ossify and renal function begins to lose. When less than 50% of the renal function is lost, it is the prophase of renal fibrosis. In this phase, for the strong compensatory capacity of kidneys, the patients do not have clinical symptoms.

With the development of renal fibrosis, more and more renal intrinsic cells are damaged and there are less and less healthy intrinsic cells. When the number of healthy nephrons is declining is less than 20%, the patients develop into Renal Failure phase. In this phase, the patients begin to present a series of clinical symptoms. When more than 90% of renal nephrons have fibrosis change, a series of uremic symptoms appears like metabolic acidosis, heart problem and so on. The disease has developed into End Stage Renal Failure (ESRF). At this stage, the residual nephrons have ossified and the extracellular matrix forms automatically and excessively.

Therefore, inhibiting the renal fibrosis initiation is the key for the treatment of Kidney Disease.

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How to Treat Protein in Urine for Nephrotic Syndrome

Nephrotic Syndrome is characterized with massive protein in urine that is followed by a series of symptoms like low protein in blood, swelling and so on. If uncontrolled effectively, the protein in urine will accelerate Nephrotic Syndrome. Therefore, it is very important to treat protein in urine for the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome.

To treat protein in urine fundamentally, it is essential for us to learn its underlying causes.

Autoimmunity plays the major role in Nephrotic Syndrome. For immune deficiency or disorder, when the foreign pathological substances invade into body, the immune systems can not function well to defeat them. As a result, the antigens encounter and bind to antibodies to form immune complexes and deposit in glomeruli. Afterwards, the immune cells remove the immune complexes. For immune deficiency or disorder, the immune cells not only are not able to remove the immune complexes, but also damage the renal tissues and cells. The glomeruli are impaired seriously and lose their normal filtration function. Consequently, a mass of protein leak into urine.

To treat protein in urine fundamentally, it is the key to remove the immune complexes and recover the normal glomerular function. Here the latest immunotherapy is recommended to the patients with Nephrotic Syndrome.

Immunotherapy aims at correcting the disordered immune system and suppressing the abnormal immune response as well as clearing up the immune complexes.

In immunotherapy, the application of Chinese herbal medicines can degrade the immune complexes into dissolved substances and finally are discharged out of body. Meanwhile, Chinese herbal medicines can correct the patients’ immunity and improve the self-clearance ability of the body. Chinese herbal medicine can create a favorable environment for rebuilding the patients’ immune system and restoring the impaired glomeruli.

On one hand, Immunotherapy can help the patients rebuild their immunity system and avoid the recurrence of Nephrotic Syndrome.

Finally, the patients will be able to improve and even recover the glomerular function. Afterwards, the protein in urine will disappear.

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