IgA Nephropathy: A Common Chronic Kidney (CKD)

IgA Nephropathy is a common Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and it covers the largest population of people with Glomerulonephritis.

Causes
It is an autoimmune disorder, in which the immune system attacks the healthy kidney tissues mistakenly. IgA is a protein called antibody that helps the body to fight infections. However, in some cases, the immune disorder cause too much of this protein to deposit in glomeruli. As a result, the glomeruli become inflamed and damaged. IgA Nephropathy is a form of mesangial proliferative nephritis.

Symptoms
In the early stages, the disease can go unnoticed for decades. If left untreated, it will lead to the following symptoms.
Cola or tea-colored urine: It is caused by the red blood cells loss in urine.
Swelling: It primarily appears around faces, ankle etc and then spread to other body parts.
Foamy urine: It is related to protein loss in urine.
High blood pressure: It is mainly caused by retention of fluid and sodium.
Pain in sides
Lower-grade fever
Prognosis
The prognosis of IgA Nephropathy mainly depends on the amount of protein loss. If uncontrolled, more than 20% of the patients will progress into End Stage Renal Failure. However, in some cases, the condition may go away, either with or without therapy.

Treatments
1. General treatments
☆Controlling blood pressure is very important to delay kidney damage.
Immunosuppressive agents and hormone are usually used to suppress inflammatory reaction and relieve the symptoms.
☆ A low-salt diet and diuretics may help with the swelling in the hands and legs.
☆ Low-protein diets may be helpful in reducing the protein in urine significantly.
2. Our treatment
The latest treatment-immunotherapy is introduced to the treatment of IgA Nephropathy and other immunological kidney disease. It mainly plays the following roles in treating the disease.
☆ It can suppress the inflammation in kidneys thus inhibiting more immune injury to kidneys.
☆ It can regulate autoimmune process and enhance immunity. Experiences have proved that immunotherapy is remarkably effective in treating IgA Nephropathy.

Learn More: Chinese Herbal Medicine for IgA Nephropathy

Is Acupuncture Helpful to Kidney Disease

Acupuncture is a complex therapeutic system in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It has been used to treat a variety of diseases conditions. Acupuncture and moxibustion help remit kidney disease fatigue. Evidence shows it is beneficial to for people with Kidney disease because it can delay the disease’ progression.

☆ Acupuncture has been proved to help relieve the chronic pain associated with kidney disease. After the needles are inserted into skin, they can stimulate the body to produce endorphins which is the natural painkiller in body.
☆ It can increase the blood circulation at the specific point on the skin. Therefore, it can increase the blood supply to sites of kidney injury.
☆ Many Kidney Diseases are related to the inflammation in kidneys. Some researches show that acupuncture may have beneficial effects in reducing renal inflammation.

Although acupuncture is an effective alternative therapy for Kidney Disease, the potential harms do exist. After having a medical exam to establish the exact stage of your Kidney Disease, you should discuss with your doctor and integrative, alternative treatment strategy tailored for you that can slow the progression of the disease and relieve any symptom you have.

Generally speaking, acupuncture is not used to treat Kidney Disease alone. It is usually combined with traditional Chinese herbal medicines. Traditional Chinese medicines are mainly composed of herbs (roots, leaf, fruits) and also contain some minerals as well as animal (bones, skeleton). Every formula is composed of several types of integrants and they are interacted to guarantee the curative effect and the safety. Chinese herbal medicine mainly plays the following roles in treating Kidney Disease.

☆ The effective integrants can dilate systemic blood vessels. By this, it can promote the excretion of the metabolic products like creatinine, BUN etc and relieve high blood pressure. In addition, it can increase blood and oxgen supply to kidneys thus improving renal ischemia and anoxia.
☆ The Chinese medicines provide some essential nutrients for the repairing of the impaired nephrons. Therefore, they can stimulate the self-repairing of the kidneys.
☆ They can degrade the immune complexes in kidneys thus suppressing the immune inflammatory response. Hence, it can prevent more damage to kidneys effectively.

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture have been proven to help slow down Kidney Disease. However, there are still some contraindications for the therapy.

Learn More: Acupuncture Works Well For CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease)

Is Diabetes Kidney Disease Reversible

Diabetes Kidney Disease is commonly seen among people with a long history of disease. It is the most common cause of Renal Failure in the western countries. So, is Diabetes Kidney Disease reversible in its early stage?

Firstly, how does Diabetes cause kidney injury?
1. Genetic factors
* Diabetes Kidney Disease usually clusters in a family. If there is a family history, its morbidity can increase to 33~83%. In other cases, the morbidity is only 10~17%.
* It may be related to the polymorphism of ACE gene.
2. Metabolic disorder
*  High blood glucose can thicken the glomerular basilar membrane and increase the excretion of proteins thus causing glomerular filtration rate (GFR) to decline.
* High-cholesterol can speed up falling speed of GFR and glomerular sclerosis progression.
*  High blood pressure can promote occurrence and development of glomerular sclerosis. If there is a family history of primary high blood pressure, the morbidity of Diabetes Kidney Disease is 3 times as high as those without family history of high blood pressure.
* Hemodynamic changes
In the early stage of Diabetes Kidney Disease, the hemodynamic changes can cause enlargement of kidneys. The increased renal blood volume can elevate the pressure in glomeruli thus causing extra burden to kidneys.

Is Diabetes Kidney Disease reversible in its early stage?
If Diabetes Kidney Disease keeps in its stage 1 or 2, it is possible to reverse it because the kidneys are not damaged yet, but only have enlargement. In most cases, as the patients do not have any discomforts or symptoms, they usually miss the early treatment.
Generally speaking, when they have proteinuria or high blood pressure, it has at least developed into stage 3. If so, it is very difficult to reverse the disease by the conventional therapy. What they only can do is to control high blood pressure and reduce protein leakages etc. Therefore, early inspection is very important for the prevention of kidney damage in Diabetes. For the patients with Diabetes, they are recommended to take urine microalbumin test once in every half year. It can imply the early kidney damage clearly.
If you have experienced serious kidney damage and want to know how to restore the damaged kidneys, Immunotherapy may be your best option.

Learn More: A Natural Treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy

Lupus Nephritis Should Be Alert to High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a common complication of Lupus Nephritis. In turn, it can accelerate kidney function aggravation. Therefore, it is very important for the patients to have a firmed control of blood pressure.

Why does high blood pressure occur?
1. In some cases, the patients may produce less urine than normal. As a result, a large amount of fluid builds up in body thus resulting in increased blood volume. Therefore, the blood pressure will rise up.
2. As the renal capillaries are damaged, it will lead to renal ischemia and anoxia. In this condition, RAS (renin-angiotension-aldosterone) will be activated. The damaged kidneys will secrete more renin than before, which can then increase the production of angiotension. As a result, the blood vessels contract thus resulting in high blood pressure. In addition, the increased aldosterone can cause more sodium to build up in blood thus aggravating retention of fluid and sodium.
3. The patients with Lupus Nephritis should use a large dosage of hormone over time. The hormone can affect the regulatory function of RAS.

How to treat high blood pressure in Lupus Nephritis?
How is high blood pressure associated with Lupus Nephritis? How to treat it?
1. The patients should restrict the salt intake strictly and keep the intake within 2~3 grams per day. It can relieve the retention of fluid and sodium.
2. They should take some medications such as diuretic and ACE.
3. They should reduce the dosage of hormone properly under their doctors’ guidance.
4. High blood pressure is mainly attributable to reduced renal function and renal ischemia and anoxia. Therefore, it is very important to improve renal blood flow and dilate renal capillaries as well as restore the impaired kidneys.
In our hospital, the combination of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Immunotherapy is recommended to the patients.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy
1. The effective medicines can dilate blood vessels thus relieving renal ischemia and anoxia.
2. It can remove the inflammatory factors and blood clots. Therefore, it can improve the systemic blood circulation.
3. It can provide some essential nutrients for restoring the impaired nephrons.

If you have been diagnosed with Lupus Nephritis and want to know more about it, we are here to help.

Can Patients with Lupus Nephritis Eat Mango

Mango is rich in nutrients and it is helpful in preventing high blood pressure and clearing harmful stuffs in intestines and stomach. However, things that should avoid by lupus nephritis patients, the patients with Lupus Nephritis should remove mango from their daily diet.

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder, which means that the immune system attacks the healthy tissues and organs in body mistakenly. There are many pathological antibodies in their body. If the outside germs, virus etc invades into body, the antibodies will be activated thus causing allergic response in body.

Mango is very likely to cause allergic reaction. Therefore, the patients with Lupus Nephritis should avoid eat it.
Besides mango, the patients should limit the consumption of the following fruits.
Fruits high in potassium
If the potassium level is too high, it will cause irregular heart beat and even heart failure. The common foods high in potassium mainly include banana, oranges, peaches etc.

Fruits rich in phosphorus
The damaged kidneys will not be able to filter phosphorus normally. The high phosphorus in blood will pull calcium from bone thus resulting in osteoporosis. The patients with renal insufficiency are recommended to strict the phosphorus intake to 1000 mg per day.
Meanwhile, the patients with Lupus Nephritis, especially those with renal insufficiency should keep the following dietary principles.

1. Low high-quality protein diet
They should take proper low high-quality protein diet such ash lean meat, egg white. Meanwhile, they should remove the vegetable proteins from their diet such as peanut, sunflowers, nuts etc.
2. High-vitamin diet
Vitamin takes part in the metabolic activity in body. If the body can not get sufficient vitamin supply, it will cause dysmetabolism. If the kidney function declines, it will change the dysmetabolism in body, especially when patients need hormone over time. Therefore, the patients should increase the intake of fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin and fruits.

In addition, alcohol and nicotine can cause damage to kidney arteries thus aggravating the sclerosis of kidney arteries and glomeruli. Therefore, the patients should control smoking and drinking strictly.
The above are the general dietary principle for patients with Lupus Nephritis. If you want to get your personalized diet, you can send email to us at renalhealth@hotmail.com.

Obesity--Red Flag of Kidney Disease

It has been proven that the incidence of Kidney Disease in people with obseity is two times as high as the common people. Therefore, it is very important for us to control our body weight within normal range.

One on hand, obesity itself can cause Kidney Disease directly. On the other hand, it can increase the risk of developing Diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic diseases. If these diseases can not treated effectively as early as possible, it will cause kidney disease.

The kidney injury caused by obesity develops very slowly and latently. Therefore, this kind of Kidney Disease is also misdiagnosed. Meanwhile, many people do not know that obesity can cause Kidney Disease. Therefore, they often neglect its prevention and early inspection.

Kidney Diseases related to obesity often are featured with proteinuria, high blood pressure, kidney hypertrophia etc and finally it will progress into Renal Failure.

So, why do people with obesity develop Kidney Disease?
1. The kidney capsule is covered by fat, some of which will permeate into renal parenchyma and oppressing the kidneys thus causing local renal ischemia and anoxia.
2. The patients with obesity are usually accompanied by high blood pressure, hyperlipemia, insulin-resistance etc and these factors will influence the renal hemodynamics thus causing hyperfiltration in glomeruli.

However, Kidney Disease caused by obesity can be prevented by effective preventive measures. You should control your body weight strictly and develop good habits such as taking proper exercise and eating more vegetables and fruits and less foods high sugar, you will be able to prevent damage to kidneys and other diseases such as Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases etc.

If you have been diagnosed with Kidney Disease and want to know how to prevent it developing, you can consult us on line to get some professional suggestions.

Can Lupus Cause Renal Disease

Can Lupus Cause Renal Disease

Lupus is an immune disorder, in which your own immune system attacks healthy cells and tissues mistakenly. Renal disease is one of the most common complications of lupus.

How does lupus cause Renal Disease?
In normal condition, when the outside germs, bacteria and other harmful stuffs invade into your body, the immune cells in your body will swallow them and discharge them out of body.
However, in some cases, the immune system is activated improperly. When the outside pathological substances (antigens) invade into body, the antibodies in body are activated. However, they fail to defeat the harmful substances. As a result, the antigens bind to antibodies in blood and form immune complexes which can not dissolve in blood.
Afterwards, the immune complexes will flow into kidneys and deposit them. To remove the foreign substances, the body mounts an inflammation thus impairing the glomeruli (filters) in kidneys. Once the glomeruli are impaired, it will cause a series of symptoms such as proteinuria, hematuria, swelling etc.

What is the recommended therapy for Lupus Renal Disease?
Immunotherapy is the latest therapy for Lupus Renal Disease and it mainly plays the following roles in treating the disease.
1. It aims at regulating the autoimmune process and stopping the attack to glomeruli and other organs and systems such as joint, liver, lung, brain etc.
2. It can remove inflammatory factors and other pathological substances in blood thus inhibiting immune deposits in glomeruli. In this way, it not only can prevent inflammatory reaction in kidneys, but also can improve blood circulation.
3. Chinese herbal medicine plays a vital role in immunotherapy. Chinese herbal medicines are rich in minerals, vitamins, trace elements etc and they can provide essential nutrients for repairing of the impaired glomeruli.
4. It aims at controlling the symptoms of Lupus Nephritis by restoring the impaired glomeruli.

Immunotherapy is a combination therapy of natural remedy and biotherapy. It only has mild invasion on body. It can treat Lupus Nephritis from its root causes so the patients can achieve a complete recovery. According to your own disease condition,we can customize a personalized therapy for you. If you want to know more information about our therapy, it is free for you to send email at renalhealth@hotmail.com to us.

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