Friday, May 31, 2013

What Is Renal Glucose Threshold

When the sugar in the blood is more than 8.88mmol/L, sugar in the urine will also increase. In clinic, this sugar level is called renal glucose threshold, which can be regarded as the blood glucose concentration when partial renal unites’ reabsorption ability reaches to the maximum. We can also say that when the blood sugar is more than 8.88mmol/L, the glucose in urinalysis will show positive. In addition, renal arterial sclerosis can also lead to the increase of renal glucose threshold. At this time, sugar in urine can also show negative. The damage of renal tubules can also lead to decrease of renal glucose threshold. When the blood glucose is high, the sugar in urine can also show positive. From the above, we can get a conclusion that when diabetes patients have arterial sclerosis, we can not evaluate blood sugar and treatment on the basis of sugar in urine.

How to Prevent and Control Diabetic Nephropathy

There are many points which patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should pay attention to. In this passage, experts in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital will introduce it for you in detail.
1. Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should control the blood pressure strictly and control it below 130/80mmHg. In addition, it is forbidden to take medicine which does harm to kidney.
2. Smoking is also forbidden. Besides, high blood pressure, high blood glucose, and high protein should also be prevented.
3. Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should take more water. The intake of water should be 1500-2000, and the amount of urine should also be 1500-2000, which is good to the discharge of metabolism.
4. Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should control the intake of protein, the amount of which should be 0.6-0.8g/kg/day. In addition, patients should take in high quality protein food such as fish and lean meat.
5. Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy should control the intake of blood sugar as well. It is because high blood sugar can accelerate the development of Diabetic Nephropathy.
If people have been diagnosed with Diabetic Nephropathy, besides the above-mentioned points, they should also take effective measures so as to repair the damaged intrinsic cells and stop it from developing into end-stage Uremia.

Does Sugar or Glucose in Urine Mean Diabetes

Does sugar or glucose in urine means diabetes? When some of us go to have a physical examination and are told to have s sugar or glucose in urine, we will become anxious and doubt that they have got diabetes.
Long long ago, patients find out they have got diabetes from sugar in urine. With the development of modern technology, we find out that the essential manifestation for diabetes is abnormal amount of sugar in blood. However, sugar in urine does not always stand for diabetes and diabetes does not always means there must be sugar in urine.
How does it come? Our kidney is just like a filtration net, which can filtrate the useless substances and discharge them into urine. In addition, kidney can also prevent the useful material from leaking out such as glucose by the reabsorption function of renal tubules. So in normal condition, there is nearly no glucose in the urine. Of course, due to many reasons, glucose will pass through the filtration net and in urine, glucose will be diagnosed. The normal range of renal glucose threshold is 8.9 to 10 mol/L.
Besides the above mentioned, in the following conditions, blood in urine can also appear, which has no relationship with diabetes as well.
1. renal glycosuria
Due to congenital damage in kidney or other reasons, the reabsorption ability of renal tubules, the sugar in urine shows positive.
2. gestation glycosuria
In gestation period, there will be more blood flow in the kidney, and the intake of glucose will increase accordingly. When it is out of the reabsorption ability, the glucose in urine will show positive.
3. nutrition type glycosuria
Some people feel hungry very much and take in many foods rich in sugar, and in this case, blood sugar will increase for the time being.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Latest Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus by Stem Cells Transplant

What is the latest treatment of Diabetes Mellitus by stem cells transplant? Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. This high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms of polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (increased thirst) and polyphagia (increased hunger).
Type 1 Diabetes is typically treated with a combination of regular and NPH insulin, or synthetic insulin analogs. When insulin is used in type 2 diabetes, a long-acting formulation is usually added initially, while continuing oral medications. Doses of insulin are then increased to effect. However, the above therapy can not treat Diabetes Mellitus from root.
About 50% to 70% of patients with type 1 diabetes are connected with immune disease. In normal condition, our body can recognize and utilize insulin. Insulin has function of using blood sugar; however, when our immune system goes wrong, our body will be failed in recognizing and utilizing insulin. When insulin secreted by pancreas islet can not display their sugar-lowering function, blood sugar accumulates in our body and finally, leading to the increase of blood sugar level. Therefore, on the basis of above theory, to relieve or control this condition, we need to regulate immune system, which will enable our body to recognize and use insulin.
Stem cells can increase the immunity of the body, help us defend ourselves from the virus and bacteria. Stem cells are “ancestors”of the body. They can differentiate into kinds of functional cells such as muscles fibre cells, nerve cells, bone cells and blood cells. Its characteristic makes it different from others. In their process, they grow into different tissues. After we are born, in our organs, there also remains stem cell. However, the amount is limited. With the shrinking of the cells, we begin to suffer from disease, and we have to conquer the disease. So stem cell transplant can help fight with the disease and the disorder of kidney function.
Generally, the transplant for stem cell is also very convenient. It is just like injection. What patients with Diabetes need is to lie down. The total time for injection is 45 minutes more or less.
Normally, before the injection of stem cell, we must make sure that the internal environment is clean, which can make sure that stem cell can grow well. Chinese Medicine can achieve it.

How to Treat Diabetes with Stem Cell and Chinese Remedy

In this passage, we will mainly introduce how stem cell and Chinese remedy treat Diabetes, which is both based on the repair of the damaged intrinsic cells and the increase of immune ability.
Cause:
Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. This high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms of frequent urination, increased thirst and increased hunger. The majority of type 1 diabetes is of the immune-mediated nature, where beta cell loss is a T-cell mediated autoimmune attack.
Mechanism:
Stem cells, which is applied into clinic is mostly collected from human beings, can differentiate into kinds of cells and can increase the immune ability in human beings as well as repair the damaged cells. Clinical practice has proved that it is safe, convenient and does not need to cost a long time. They are initial cells compared with those which have been differentiated already.
How does stem cell treat diabetes? The mechanism goes as follows: pancreas islet β cells are damaged, which leads to insufficient secretion of insulin. In this case, the blood sugar will increase. If this can not be treated or controlled well, it will lead to systematic disorder and a series of complications will occur as well. Stem cells can repair the damaged pancreas islet β cells, thus recovering the function of insulin. In this case, the secretion of insulin can turn normal and diabetes can recover consequently.
Generally, when diabetes takes place, there will be high blood glucose, which means that there is not a clean inner environment for the growth of stem cell. What’s more, long time blood sugar can also cause a series of damage in the micro-blood vessels, for thick blood can cause blocking of micro-blood circulation. For example, long time thick blood can cause damage in renal capillaries, thus causing kidney disease ( Diabetic Nephropathy).
So before stem cells are applied, Chinese remedy is applied, the principle of which is anti-coagulation, anti-inflammation, degradation and extending blood vessels. In recent years, we have created Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmothrapy, which is based on traditional Chinese remedy. Compared with traditional Chinese remedy, it has the following advantages:
Firstly, it is more convenient, and is applied through osmosis. Before, patients with diabetes use traditional Chinese remedy, which should be smashed and then boiled, both of which will cost time.
Secondly, Chinese Medicine is applied through osmosis, which means that it is not taken orally, and will not stimulate stomach and guts.
The above mentioned are about how stem cell and Chinese remedy treat diabetes. If you still have any questions, please consult us online or leave a message. We are glad to serve.

Can Obesity Cause Diabetes

With the rapid development of the society and the improvement of life quality, some people have more body weight. And some may even develop into Diabetes. Diabetes is a kind of dangerous disease, which can accompany people in the whole lifetime. Is there any relationship between obesity and Diabetes? Yes. In this passage, we will mainly introduce you how obesity leads to Diabetes.
Firstly, as for those with increased body weight, because the adipocyte becomes fat, the density of insulin receptor in adipocyte becomes smaller, the sensibility to insulin decreases, which leads to high blood glucose. To stop the blood glucose from rising, patients will spare no effort to work and relieve more insulin, which can lead to hyperinsulinemia. With time passing by, insulin becomes tired, the function of which declines. The level of insulin in blood declines, and the blood sugar increases, which even leads to diabetes.
Secondly, for people who are heavier than the normal range, the amount of exercise will generally decrease, which lead to a fact that the body weight increase further. In addition, when people with obesity have less exercise, the metabolism of sugar will also decrease, which leads to increased sugar level in blood.
Thirdly, obesity people usually have high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia. It is found out that high blood pressure and high fat level in the blood are dangerous factors which can lead to Diabetes. As a matter of fact, other investigation from abroad also shows that people who are fat are more likely to get Diabetes. So to prevent Diabetes, we should firstly control the intake of energy, take more exercise, thus preventing obesity.
What shall we do if people are diagnosed with Diabetes?
In type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune system becomes programmed to attack the beta cells, so the patient must take immuno-suppressant drugs to prevent this happening.
Doctors and scientists have tried to cure the disease through injections of pancreatic islet cells. Unfortunately, due to the need to suppress the immune system, only a small proportion of these therapies are effective.
Stem cell transplant is the latest method which can give patients with Diabetes new hope. Stem cells are different from other cells because they have the unique potential to become cells with special functions such as the insulin-producing beta cells found in the pancreas.
All in all, obesity can lead to Diabetes and we should try stem cell transplant if diagnosed with Diabetes.

Children Diabetic Nephropathy and Control Method

Diabetic Nephropathy is a common complication of children Children Diabetic Nephropathy. It is also a high risk complication, which may lead to the death of children. Children Diabetic Nephropathy is due to long time increased blood sugar. Generally, Children Diabetic Nephropathy means tuberous sclerosis due to damage caused by high blood sugar. It can be divided into five stages as follows:
In the first and second stage, there is nearly no clinical symptom. Examination in lab also can not show any abnormal signs. There are only some pathological changes actually.
In the third stage, there is also no symptom in clinic. Through a kind of sensitive examination methods, we can find out that the secretion of microalbumin increases. This is reversible. In other means, after treatment, Children Diabetic Nephropathy in this stage can be treated well.
In the fourth stage, Children Diabetic Nephropathy shows some clinical symptoms. Through conventional examination, we can find out that the protein in urine has increased. In this stage, timely and effective is essential and necessary. Or else, it will develop into the fifth stage.
In the fifth stage, Children with Diabetic Nephropathy will suffer from renal failure. They even need to receive dialysis to discharge the toxins which accumulates in the body. So generally, Children with Diabetes should have an examination about renal function five years after they are diagnosed with Diabetes.
So to control Diabetes and prevent it from developing into Diabetic Nephropathy, children should pay attention to the following aspects.
Firstly, control the blood pressure. As for children with type 1 Diabetes, high blood pressure can easily lead to Diabetic Nephropathy. In turn, high blood pressure can worsen type 1 Diabetes. So before it develops into Diabetic Nephropathy, controlling the blood pressure is very important, especially for those with type 1 Diabetes. If controlled well, the time when Diabetes develops into Diabetic Nephropathy will be delayed 10 to 20 years.
Secondly, children with type 1 Diabetes should control the intake of protein so as to reduce the load of the kidney. When the intake amount of protein is reduced, children can take in more carbohydrate to supply what the body needs.
Last but not least, children with Diabetes should control the blood sugar, which is an essential factor to prevent Diabetes developing into Diabetic Nephropathy.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Renal Insufficiency

Renal Insufficiency is caused by many reasons. The renal glomeruli are damaged seriously, which leads to the disorder of electrolyte, acid-base balance. Renal insufficiency can be divided into acute renal insufficiency and chronic renal insufficiency. The prognosis is not good and threatens people’ s life.
The pathogenesis of renal insufficiency
Firstly, renal insufficiency can be caused by kidney disease such as acute kidney failure, chronic kidney failure, pyelonephritis, nephrotuberculosis, renal tubules degeneration caused by chemical toxicant and biological poisons, etc.
Secondly, renal insufficiency can also be caused by barrier in the whole blood circulation such as shock, heart failure, high blood pressure, etc.
Renal insufficiency can be divided into 4 stages.
The third stage is called compensation stage. Because kidney has a strong ability of compensation,symptoms will not occur. Even though some renal glomeruli are damaged, other remained renal glomeruli can still work and do more work to take place those which are damaged. The ability of secretion and electrolyte balance can also meet the need. So in clinic, there is no symptom. In renal function test, we can find out that some index can be in normal range and can be a little high.
In the second stage, we call it renal insufficiency stage. Many glomeruli are damaged in this stage, which account for 60% to 75%. Kidney has difficulties in discharging metabolism. Serum creatinine and BUN (blood urea nitrogen) will become slightly high. Patients can suffer from anemia, fatigue, decreased body weight, and can not concentrate well. All of them can be ignored easily. However, if patients loose water in the body, or suffer from infection, bleeding, etc, their symptoms will appear obviously.
In the third stage, it is called renal failure stage. The damage in the kidney has become rather serious, accounting for 75% to 95%. The inner environment can not maintain stable. In addition, patients will get tired easily and will feel fatigue, and can not concentrate, etc. Anemia is not serious as well. Urine at night becomes more. What’s more, serum creatinine increases. BUN increases as well. Patients can also be accompanied by acidosis. So this stage can also be called azotemia.
In the fourth stage, patients with renal insufficiency develop into advanced stage kidney disease or uremia stage. In this stage, damage of renal glomeruli spreads to 95%. Patients have serious clinical symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, little urine, edema, high blood pressure, serious edema and anemia, itch in skin, and so on.

Why Kidney Failure Patients Have Anemia

Why do patients with renal failure patients have anemia? The reasons are as follows:
1. When kidney disorder develops into kidney failure stage, the secretion of EPO will decrease, and the hematopoietic function of marrow will also decline. In normal condition, EPO comes into being in kidney and reach marrow through blood circulation and adjust the production of red blood cells. However, in kidney failure stage, kidney can not produce enough EPO, which lead to the decline of red blood cells in the body, thus leading to anemia.
2. In kidney failure stage, there have been many toxins which accumulate in the blood, which inhibit the hematopoietic function of marrow. We can also say, vicious circle will take place easily if the effective measures are not taken in time.
3. Toxins in the blood will also damage the red blood cell, which leads to hemolysis.
4. In renal failure stage, patients will feel vomiting and nausea, so they will take in less protein, iron and folic acid, which leads to the insufficient supply of materials which is used to produce blood.
5. In renal failure stage, the blood coagulation is blocked, which leads to bleeding, thus worsening anemia.
So patients with kidney failure are suggested to receive treatment as soon as possible so as to prevent other complicaitions. In our Hospital, Chinese Medicine is applied, which is mainly aimed at the relieving of anemia.
Chinese Medicine is abstracted from herbs, which contains active substances and active materials, so it can improve the blood flow in the kidney, including improving the micro-blood circulation.
It can also promote the secretion of EPO, activate the hematopoietic function of marrow, thus relieving anemia. What’s more, Chinese Medicine can also extend the blood vessels in the body, decrease the secretion of renin, which can lower high blood pressure as well.
After the application of Chinese Medicine, anemia and other symptoms such as poor appetite, vomiting can also relieve. For more information, please consult us on line or leave a message and all your information will be kept confidential.

Four Stages of Renal Insufficiency in China

In China, we definite the stages of renal insufficiency mainly according to the level of serum creatine. The four stages are mainly as follows: compensation stage, discompensation stage, early stage of renal failure, end stage of renal failure.
In the first stage: compensation stage, there is nearly no symptom in clinic for the kidney has a strong ability of compensation. When some of the renal intrinsic cells are damaged, others will do more work such as filtrating blood, which make serum creatinine is133~177umol/L. In this stage, kidney can still function and work well, so we call it compensation stage. We should pay attention however that there has been damage in the kidney and the GFR has decreased. Kidney can still discharge metabolism product, balance of electrolyte, and so on.
The second stage is discompensation stage. In this stage, serum creatinine is 177~443umol/L. The damaged renal glomerulus increases, which accounts for about 60% to 75%. The secretion function has been damaged, blood urea acid increases as well. Kidney disease patients begin to have anemia, fatigue, weakness, lost body weight, and so on. If they suffer from water lost, infection or bleeding, the condition will develop faster.
The third stage is early stage of renal failure stage. In this stage, the serum creatinine is 443-707umol/L. There are more necrotic renal glomerulus. Renal fibrosis appears in renal tubules-renal parenchyma, renal blood vessels, which leads to serious damage in the kidney. As for the symptoms, kidney disease patients will have more obvious anemia, increased urine at night, and so on.
In the end stage of renal failure, serum creatinine is more than 707umoll/L. In China, patients begin to take dialysis. The damaged renal glomerulus are more than 95%. Patients with kidney disease will also have serious vomiting, little urine, edema, high blood pressure and so on.

What’re the Symptoms of Renal Insufficiency

Renal Insufficiency has many symptoms which appear in several aspects. Renal Insufficiency is a middle period between compensation stage to Uremia, which should be attached more importance to, or else, it will deteriorate into end-stage of renal failure-Uremia. So pay more attention to the symptoms and take effective treatment as soon as possible. The symptoms go as follows:
The first symptoms are in stomach and guts, which are usually the earliest and the most common symptoms. At first, patients with Renal Insufficiency have anorexia, discomfort in abdomen, which are the main reasons why patients go to see a doctor. Later, patients with Renal Insufficiency will feel nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, glossitis, ozostomia, etc. what’s worse, some of them even have bleeding in digestive tract.
The second symptoms are in nerve system, which are usually weakness, pain in head, dizziness, bad memories, insomnia. Some feel pins and needles, burning pain in hand and feet, gargalesthesia in skin, and even itch in lower limbs, which makes patients with Renal Insufficiency move here and there, and can not stop. In the end-stage, patients with Renal Insufficiency will have symptoms such as drowsiness, dysphoria, ravings, muscular twitching, convulsions and even coma.
The third symptoms are in cardiovascular system. Patients with Renal Insufficiency often have high blood pressure. Long time high blood pressure will make the pachynsis of ventriculus sinister increase, the damage in myocardium, heart failure. In addition, the retention of poisonous materials will lead to injury in myocardium, which leads to uremic pericarditis.
The fourth symptoms are in hemopoietic system. Anemia is an essential system for patients with Uremia. Besides anemia, there can also be bleeding easily such as epistaxis, bleeding gums, tarry stool, etc.
The final symptoms are in respiratory system. Due to acidosis, patients with Renal Insufficiency often have deep breath. The retention of metabolin can lead to bronchitis, pneumonia, pleuritis which are caused by Uremia. And related clinical symptoms and other physical signs will also appear.
What should patients with Renal Insufficiency do after they are diagnosed? Absolutely they should take effective measures. Besides western medicine and dialysis, what should we receive? In our Hospital, we have the combination of Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell, which can help patients get rid of sufferings.
If you are interested in Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell, the characteristic treatment in our Hospital, please communicate with the doctors online or email us. We sincerely hope patients with Renal Insufficiency recover soon.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Why Can High Blood Pressure Cause Kidney Disease

Why can high blood pressure cause kidney disease, which is called Hypertensive Nephropathy in clinic, a secondary chronic kidney disease. For patients with high blood pressure, with times passing by, about 15% of them will develop into chronic kidney disease or Hypertensive Nephropathy. So for those people, they all want to know the reason why high blood pressure can cause kidney disease and they also want to know how to prevent themselves from getting this complication of high blood pressure.
How does hypertension cause chronic kidney disease?
High blood pressure is a major cause of kidney disease and kidney failure (end-stage renal disease). Hypertension can cause damage to the blood vessels and filters in the kidney, making removal of waste from the body difficult. Long time hypertension can cause sclerosis of renal glomeruli, leading to the insufficiency of blood and oxygen.
In modern society, with the changing of diet, people take in more and more meat and even fat and excessive sugar, and so on, all of which can lead to more density of blood, thus causing sclerosis and leading to chronic kidney disease if it lasts long.
In addition, the society we live in is full of pressure and competition, which make people under enormous pressure and leading to high blood pressure.
So to prevent high blood pressure, we can follow the following tips.
· Try to keep your blood pressure controlled. You can take exercise regularly such as waling, yoga, and so on, which should not be so strenuous.
· Make sure you get your blood pressure checked on a regular basis.
· Eat a proper diet, which should contain more fruit and vegetables and should be far from fat and salted ones.
· Take the medication your doctor prescribes.
In addition, once people are diagnosed with Hypertensive Nephropathy, a kind of chronic kidney disease which is caused by long time high blood pressure, they should not loose heart. Chinese Medicine can treat it. The main function of Chinese Medicine is expanding blood vessels. As for the high blood pressure, Chinese medicine is for expanding arterioles in every levels, then improve the state of ischemia and anoxia, thus reduce the pressure in blood vessels. If the blood circulation have been improved, the damage on kidneys will be relieved as well. In a word, Chinese Medicine can help both blood pressure and the kidney disease.

Does Kidney Disease Cause High Blood Pressure

Does kidney disease cause high blood pressure? Yes. Long time kidney disease can cause high blood pressure and generally, high blood pressure appears at the end stage of kidney. We can also say that high blood pressure is one complication of kidney disease.
1. Acute renal glomerular nephritis
Acute renal glomerular nephritis is the most common kidney disease which can lead to the increase of blood pressure. When patients are suffering from kidney disease, the renal glomerular filtration rate decreases, the filtration of sodium decreases, but the reabsorption ability of renal tubules’ function keeps normal. So the unbalance of renal glomerulus and renal tubules takes place, which leads to retention of water and sodium, thus causing high blood pressure.
2. Chronic renal glomerular nephritis
About 23% to 70% patients with chronic renal glomerular nephritis will suffer from high blood pressure with the disease developing. The more renal function declines, the higher blood pressure will be. In addition, lesion in renal parenchyma and renal tubules can also lead to high blood pressure such as insufficiency of chronic pyelonephritis. Half of them can lead to high blood pressure.
From the above mentioned, we can know that kidney disease can really lead to high blood pressure.
What measures should we take after blood pressure rises in kidney disease patients? Effective treatment is essential and critical. In this passage, we will recommend you a method Chinese Medicine.
Due to high blood pressure, the lumen of renal small arteries will become much narrower, so the perfusion to the kidney will decrease. In this case, renal fibrosis comes into being as a result of the insufficiency of blood and oxygen. The deposition of matrix becomes more and more, which invades and even takes place of the intrinsic cells in the kidney. So the physical function of kidney lose gradually. Chinese Medicine can extend all levels of renal arteries, improve the partial blood circulation, increase the effective perfusion in the kidney, improve the insufficiency of blood and oxygen in the kidney, increase the partial metabolism, accelerate the repair of damaged intrinsic cells.
In addition, the active materials in Chinese Medicine can also extend the blood vessels in all levels of the whole body, improve the micro-circulation in the whole body, promote the whole system’s blood circulation, thus reliving the high blood pressure condition.

Why We Get Hypertensive Nephropathy

Hypertensive Nephropathy is a secondary kidney disease which is caused mainly by long time high blood pressure. Generally, four factors can lead to Hypertensive Nephropathy.
1. People have disorder of nerve or internal secretion.
2. People have family history. People whose parent have Hypertensive Nephropathy are more likely to get it than those whose parents do not have it.
3. Bad living habit can also lead to Hypertensive Nephropathy such as too much intake of salt, smoking, alcohol, obesity, enormous pressure, and environment of life and environment, and so on. If the above mentioned are not paid attention, high blood pressure will develop into Hypertensive Nephropathy after 10 to 15 years.
4. Patients with high blood pressure do not attach importance on it or do not receive effective treatment, which leads to Hypertensive Nephropathy later.

How High Blood Pressure Leads to Kidney Failure

Every year, high blood pressure causes more than 25,000 new cases of kidney failure in the United States, which attracted in an increasing number of people’s condition about how to prevent it.
Long time high blood pressure will firstly develop into Hypertensive Nephropathy, which is a secondary kidney disorder. On the basis of cytology, Hypertensive Nephropathy is a kind of kidney disorder, the damage of which is endothelial cell because of insufficiency of blood. When patients are in hypertension or high blood pressure condition, blood pressure will not keep stable, which rises or decreases suddenly. In this case, the rising and falling blood pressure will stimulate the renal glomerular capillaries, which leads the wall of the renal glomerular to suffer from more pressure. The capillary walls suffer from brushing, which leads the lumen of renal capillary to become narrower, thus causing renal insufficiency. In this condition, the renal glomerular capillaries will be damaged, which attracts the infiltration of inflammatory cells. Long time filtration will make the structure of the cells change. Then, the renal glomerular filtration function will be damaged, thus causing kidney failure.
So preventing high blood pressure or hypertension is very important.
1. Taking exercise regularly, which can help blood pressure keep stable, prevent thrombosis, and sclerosis. Do not sit or lie on the bed for a long time, both of which are not benefit for the blood circulation.
2. Keep low salt diet. If people take in too much salt, which will give more burden to the body, thus causing high blood pressure as well.
3. Have more food which can keep blood pressure stable. Celery is really a good green plant which can lower high blood pressure.

Treatment for Hypertensive Nephropathy

Hypertensive Nephropathy is a secondary kidney disease which is caused by long time high blood pressure. According to the data from recent years, among those who are under dialysis, renal failure patients whose disease is caused by primary kidney is decreasing, while those whose kidney disease is caused by high blood pressure is increasing. Experts in kidney disease field say that as long as patients find and treat high blood pressure as soon as possible, they can avoid kidney damage. However, in most time, when many patients develop into uremia stage, they start to realize that high blood pressure caused it. So how to treat Hypertensive Nephropathy?
Firstly, let’s know about the pathological mechanism of high blood pressure. Continuous high blood pressure in arteries leads to arteriosclerosis in the whole body, which leads to the supply of blood in the tissues and organs, causing serious result. And in this case, the complications of high blood pressure come into being. Among the complications, Hypertensive Nephropathy is the most obvious one. What’s more, people who are diagnosed with Hypertensive Nephropathy are increasing day by day.
Long time high blood pressure will lead to the insufficiency of blood in kidney. Day by day, kidney glomeruli and kidney tubules suffer from change and their functions decline consequently. With time passing by, the sclerosis of glomeruli is more serious, which leads to renal failure and even uremia. So effective and timely treatment is necessary.
Many patients in western countries choose western medicines such as hypotensor, and don’t adjust the treatment plan, which makes them miss the best opportunity. Western medicine can not treat the damaged intrinsic cells and only focus on diminishing the symptoms.
In contrast, Chinese medicine contains much active and nutritious materials, which can first promote the blood circulation and dissolve the blood stasis, after which, an inner environment is created. Then the nutrition in Chinese medicine can also repair the damaged intrinsic cells and recover renal functions gradually. As we mentioned above, in advanced stage, there appear sclerosis, which means that many intrinsic cells become nephrotic. However, Chinese medicine can not help. At this moment, Hypertensive Nephropathy patients are suggested to receive stem cell transplant. Stem cells are primary cells which can differentiate into different cells which have various functions which the body is in need of after they are transplanted into the body.
Compared with western medicine, stem cell has advantages.
The advantages of stem cell therapy are as follows:
1. Stem cell therapy can enter kidney nidus and then play roles and has no side effect.
2. Stem cell can generate capillary blood vessels and improve partial micro-circulation.
3. It can secrete a series of nutritious stimulating factors, which activates the damaged intrinsic cells and makes them recover.
4. Improve the damaged immunologic function.
In other words, the combination treatment of Chinese medicine and stem cell transplant is the best choice.
Besides these, patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should also pay attention to the following aspects so as to assist the treatment.
Firstly, Hypertensive Nephropathy patients should change the diet habit and take in food with the instructions from doctors. They should control the supply of energy. Take in proper amount of energy according to their specific condition such as weight. In addition, Hypertensive Nephropathy patients often have disorder of fat metabolism. So reducing the intake of fat is also necessary.
Secondly, Hypertensive Nephropathy patients should also keep low salt diet and rich vitamin. They should control the intake of salt and avoid salted food. In addition, those with preservative should also be limited. The intake of vitamin is also beneficial to the metabolism adjustment.

The Daily Care for Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy

Most Hypertensive Nephropathy takes place among patients aged 40 to 50. And usually, most of them have had high blood pressure for more than 5 to 10 years. We can also say, Hypertensive Nephropathy is a secondary kidney disease which is caused by long time high blood pressure. Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy have symptoms such as high blood pressure. In the advanced stage, they can also have protein in urine, red blood cells in urine, and so on. Renal functions decline accordingly. If not controlled well, high blood pressure can also threat people’s life.
The points they should pay attention to are as follows:
1. Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should avoid sitting on the chair, reading for a long time, for it can make the brain keep nervous for a long time and leads to high blood pressure.
2. In the morning, they should not get up as soon as they wake up. After waking up, they should stay in bed for a while, move the head, necks and upper limbs.
3. When patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy discharge the stool, they should not hold the breath or else, they may suffer from bleeding in brain.
4. Breakfast should be delicate. They can choose a cup of milk, an egg and a slice of bread as the breakfast.
5. Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should take in less supper. Have more soup or porridge which can make us feel full.
6. Keep taking exercise every morning. Do not do strenuous exercise. Proper exercise can help relive the pressure.
7. When taking a bath or shower, patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should choose warm water. Too cold or too hot water both can stimulate the skin and make the blood vessels shrink, influencing the blood pressure. Generally, 40 degree water is proper. In addition, they can also choose warm water to wash face, wash teeth every day.
8. After lunch, they can take a walk for several minutes. They may as well take a nap which can last for 30 minutes to one hour.
9. Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should keep diet which is low in salt, oil.
Besides these patients should pay attention to in their daily life, they should also take effective measures which can both reduce high blood pressure but also treat kidney disease which is caused by long time high blood pressure. Hypotensor is widely used to lower high blood pressure. However, it can just control the blood pressure for the time being but also can lead to some side effects. In this passage, we would like to introduce a new therapy: Chinese Medicine.
According to kidney disease mechanism theory, every kidney disease must have damaged kidney intrinsic cells. The core function of Chinese Medicine is to repair damaged intrinsic cells. Firstly, Chinese Medicine contains many active substances, which can promote blood circulation and dissolve blood stasis. Then, stasis will be cleared out, which creates a clearer environment. Next, the nutritious substances in Chinese Medicine can supply nutrition to the damaged intrinsic cells and repair them from root.
What’ s more, Chinese Medicine can extend all levels of arteries, improve the insufficiency of blood and oxygen in renal tissues, inhibit the renal fibrosis caused by insufficiency of blood and oxygen in renal tissues.

The Complications of Hypertensive Nephropathy

With the development of Hypertensive Nephropathy, more complications will take place if effective measures are not adopted. What are the complications of Hypertensive Nephropathy? In this article, specialists in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital will give you an explanation.
1. arteriosclerosis and uremia
10% of patients with high blood pressure will develop into kidney failure. The relationship between high blood pressure and kidney disease is close and complicated. On one hand, high blood pressure can cause damage to kidney. On the other hand, damage of kidney will accelerate hypertension. In a word, high blood pressure and kidney damage interact each other, which forms a vicious circle. What’s more, sudden high blood pressure may cause wide renal diffuse lesion in renal arteriole, which may deteriorate into uremia rapidly.
2. Cerebrovascularaccident
Cerebrovascularaccident is also called apoplexy, which is one of acute cerebrovascular disease. Most patients will even become disabled after being attacked. The higher the blood pressure is, the more probably they will be attacked by apoplexy.
3. angina, myocardial infection
The brute force of muscles increases, then the consuming of oxygen will increase. When emerged with coronary sclerosis, the storing blood ability of coronary sclerosis decreases, the supplied oxygen to heart muscles decreases, so angina, myocardial infection and heart failure will take place.
4. coronary heart disease
The change of blood pressure can lead to unbalance between oxygen supplied by heart muscles and that needed. Continuous increasing of blood pressure will lead to more burden to the heart, which may result in renal failure eventually if not controlled well.
Is there any method to prevent the above-mentioned complications from happening? That is effective treatment to Hypertensive Nephropathy.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

How to Treat Stage 3 Kidney Disease

How to treat stage 3 kidney disease? It is really a critical stage. If treated well, kidney disease can be reversed. If not, it is difficult to recover. Why? Let’s explain it in detail.
According to GFR, which is short for glomerular filtration rate, Chronic Kidney Disease can be divided into 5 stages. It is applied all around the world in most of te countries. GFR indicates the blood flow in the kidney, which is even more accurate than serum creatinine for creatinine is influenced by many factors such as diet and exercise. The normal range of GFR is 80 to 120 ml/min. In the third stage, GFR falls to 30~59 ml/min. Serum creatinine in stage 3 is 186-442umol/l.
Besides these, chronic kidney disease patients also have other symptoms in stage 3 such as fatigue, poor appetite, slight anemia. Patients can also suffer from high blood pressure, the less absorption of calcium, etc.
In this stage, we both use herbs medicines such as Chinese Medicine and stem cell in our Hospital. In stage 3 of chronic kidney disease, there must be damaged renal intrinsic cells and necrotic renal intrinsic cells. Chinese Medicine is used to firstly create a favorable environment by dilating blood vessels, anti-inflammatory, anti-coagulation and degradation of the immune complex. Then, it contains active herbs, which can improve the blood circulation, including micro-blood circulation and dissolve the blood stasis, which can repair the damaged intrinsic cells. In addition, the immune complex can be discharged out, and the immune system can be repaired as well.
As we mentioned above, in stage 3, there must some necrotic cells in the kidney. In this case, we should use stem cell. Stem cells are initial cells with strong self-renewing and multi-differentiation abilities. They are infused into human body through intravenous injection, and then stem cells will transfer into the kidney lesions by auto-homing function. Stem cells can adjust the immune disorder by repairing the damaged glomeruli and by generating into new renal intrinsic cells to replace the scarred ones.
The combination of stem cell and Chinese Medicine can help patients with stage 3 kidney disease recover.

How Chinese Medicine and Stem Cell Treat Kidney Disease

Patients with kidney disease want to search a combination therapy of both western medicine and herbs for they want to avoid side effects as well as treating kidney disease fundamentally. Considering these, Chinese Medicine and stem cell therapy is researched, the pathological mechanism goes as follows:
Chinese Medicine has the curative effect for kidney disease, which can treat the kidney disease from root. (1)Chinese Medicine is abstracted from Chinese herbs, without any side-effect. (2) With the help of penetrant and osmosis devices, effective Chinese Medicine is penetrated into renal lesion by external application. (As we know, any oral taking medicines will affect kidney more or less). (3) The therapeutic mechanism of this therapy is to block the process of renal fibrosis, dilate blood vessels, promote the micro-blood circulation, repair the damaged renal intrinsic cells, and remove the stasis in channels. At the same time, Chinese Medicine has the effect like anti-inflammation, anti-coagulation, preventing blood viscosity and degrading extracellular matrixes. The main function of Chinese Medicine is to repair the damaged intrinsic cells in the kidney.
Stem Cells Transplant is a brand new method in our hospital. Stem cells have the ability of self-renewal and multi-replication, they can differentiate into various kinds of renal cells which the kidney need, and then the new born cells can replace the necrotic cells, thus achieving the purpose of rebuilding the renal structure. Stem Cells Transplant as an advanced treatment in medicine, which have the greatly improved the treatment effect of kidney disease. Chinese experts have accumulated a lot of experiences in this field because of enough sources.
The combination point of Chinese Medicine and stem cell therapy is that Chinese Medicine can improve the micro-blood circulation, which can create a cleaner inner environment for the treatment of stem cell.

How to Treat Nausea and Vomiting in Stage 3 Renal Failure

Renal failure, as its name implies, means kidney fails to work such as secrete, filtrate, etc, which will lead to a series of complications such as symptoms in digestive system such as nausea and vomiting. In this stage, some renal failure patients lost confidence for they are under dialysis. Actually, as long as effective medicine and therapy are applied, people can get rid of dialysis and discomfort such as nausea and vomiting can disappear for only dialysis and pure hormone and immunosuppressive agent can not repair the damaged intrinsic cells in the kidney, thus treating stage 3 renal failure fundamentally. Making full use of Chinese medicine and western medicine therapy, stage 3 renal failure can be relieved maximally. On the basis of this, Chinese Medicine and stem cell are applied, the combination of which can relieve nausea and vomiting for stage 3 kidney failure patients.
The Chinese Medicine is the characteristic therapy of our hospital. The main content is the Chinese medicine. But this is different from the common and traditional Chinese medicine. This therapy is based on the Li Shizhen’s (a famous medical scientist of Ming Dynasty in China) patrimonial prescriptions for the kidney disease, we take advantage of the most advanced technology in the world to make the traditional Chinese medicine micro-processed into ultra micro powder, by which the active substance in the medicine can be activated and the effects of the medicine can be improved greatly.
The main function mechanism of Chinese medicine is as follows: by blood vessels expanding, anti inflammation, anticoagulation, anti blood viscidity and fibrosis substance degradation, achieve the goal of blocking the process of renal fibrosis. After this, symptoms such as nausea and vomiting can also be relieved for after blood circulation is promoted, damaged intrinsic cells are damaged.
However, in renal failure stage 3, due to long time insufficiency of blood and oxygen in the blood, there are necrotic cells. Stem cell can solve this problem.
In our kidney disease hospital, stem cells also have several kinds, we will choose proper stem cells for you according to your condition. Stem Cell Transplant refers to intravenously transfuse stem cells into patients' body from the arm, it's not surgery, and it won't cause any side effects and won't cause any rejection response. After entering into your sister’s body, under the homing function, stem cells will go to the lesions automatically. Some of stem cells go to the kidneys, to differentiate into related cells to replace those necrotic ones.
Stem cells just like “seed”, and Chinese medicine purifies the internal environment, and stem cells will grow better in the “fertile lands”. The joint application of Stem Cell Transplant and Chinese Medicine can treat nausea and vomiting from root.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Can CKD Cause Back Pain

Can CKD cause back pain? Yes. CKD(Chronic Kidney Disease) can not only influence the renal function, but also leads to the chain reaction in many other part such as back. Back has close relationship with kidney. Many patients with CKD(Chronic Kidney Disease)has different degree of pain. And generally, pain which is caused by kidney disease can be divided into the following kinds.
The first kind is swelling kidney caused by renal parenchyma. It is usually caused by acute renal glomerular nephrtis, progressive nephritis, and so on. The swelled kidney stretches renal capsule, which can lead to continuous dull pain or distendingpain. Some of patients can also have gross hematuria, edema, high blood pressure and so on.
The second kind is infectious kidney disease. It is often seen in nephrapostasis, acute pyelonephritis, which is always due to infections of bacteria. Pain usually takes place in one side of the kidney, which will be more serious if pressed. In addition, infectious kidney disease can also be accompanied by fever, chill. It can be diagnosed by test of blood or urine.
The third kind of pain is caused by renal cyst. With the cysts growing in or outside of the kidney, their size will become bigger and bigger, which will press or squeeze the renal tissues or other normal cells which is located around the cyst. What’s more, some cysts inside the kidney can also grow to renal capsule, stretch kidney capsules, which leads to the continuous bursting pain or dull pain. Cysts in the kidney can be diagnosed by B ultrasound or CT.
The fourth kind of pain is caused by kidney stone. It can be intermittent, which spreads to the perineum. It is sometimes together with vomiting, nausea, and even gross hematuria when it is serious.
The last kind of pain is caused by Diabetic Nephropathy. Pain can be caused by nerve invasion. At the end stage of kidney disease, the adjustment function of kidney is damaged. So in clinic, continuous pain in back comes into being.
Back pain is a common symptom in CKD(chronic kidney disease) patients in clinic. If patients still have other symptoms such as hematuria, proteinuria, edema or high blood pressure, they should have an examination on urine or blood test to make a diagnosis whether patients are suffering from CKD. Once diagnosed with CKD, patients should receive treatment as soon as possible.

Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease Alternative Medicine Treatment

In the third stage of Chronic Kidney Disease, patients’ GFR (glomerular filtration rate) falls to 30~59ml/(min•1.73㎡). Patients fall into renal failure stage based on Chinese traditional standard. The serum creatinine rises to 442 to 707μmol/L(5~8mg/dl). The creatinine clearance rate declines to 20 to 10 ml/min. BUN ( blood urea nitrogen) increased to 179~286mmol/L(50~80mg/dl). Patients with CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) Stage 3 can also have some symptoms. They will suffer from anemia, balance disorders of water, electrolyte and acid-base.
So stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease patients are seeking for an effective treatment to get rid of suffering from it. How many alternative medicine treatments are there for patients with stage 3 CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease)? Generally, there are three chief methods.
One is western medicine, which mainly includes a variety of hormones and immunosuppressive agents, both of which have no effective methods. Why? They both can play roles in anticoagulation and inhibit immune. But they can only diminish the inflammatory reaction in a short time, control the symptoms for the time being and stop the intrinsic cells from being damaged again. Once patients with Chronic Kidney Disease are caught by cold, tiredness, etc, nephritis will recur again and become even worse. In addition, western medicine has side effects, which can even does harm to kidney.
The second one is Chinese medicine. How about Chinese medicine?
Here, before talking about Chinese medicine, it is necessary to say something about the pathological mechanism of kidney disease. According to the experts in Chinese medicine, the root of most kidney disease is the insufficiency of blood and oxygen in the kidney. When kidney is in the insufficiency of blood and oxygen, some intrinsic cells in the kidney will be damaged. With the long time lasting of insufficiency of blood and oxygen, some intrinsic cells even get necrotic, leading to renal fibrosis at last. In stage 3 of chronic kidney disease, lots of intrinsic cells are damaged and even get necrotic, leading to the shrink of kidney.
Aimed at repairing the damaged intrinsic cells, Chinese medicine contains many active and nutritious materials, which can improve the insufficiency of blood and oxygen, repair the damaged intrinsic cells and recover renal function. One shortcoming for Chinese medicine is that it has nothing to do with the necrotic cells. So, when kidney disease is serious, for example, stage 3 of chronic kidney disease, we should search another therapy.
The third therapy is stem cell transplant, which can make up or complement the shortcoming of Chinese medicine. Stem cells have potential to differentiate into cells which has different functions which the body or the kidney is in need of. So it can regenerate into necrotic intrinsic cells and revive the renal function.
In other words, the combination of Chinese medicine and stem cell can achieve a better treatment.
Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease Alternative Medicine Treatment
In the third stage of Chronic Kidney Disease, patients’ GFR (glomerular filtration rate) falls to 30~59ml/(min•1.73㎡). Patients fall into renal failure stage based on Chinese traditional standard. The serum creatinine rises to 442 to 707μmol/L(5~8mg/dl). The creatinine clearance rate declines to 20 to 10 ml/min. BUN ( blood urea nitrogen) increased to 179~286mmol/L(50~80mg/dl). Patients with CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) Stage 3 can also have some symptoms. They will suffer from anemia, balance disorders of water, electrolyte and acid-base.
So stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease patients are seeking for an effective treatment to get rid of suffering from it. How many alternative medicine treatments are there for patients with stage 3 CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease)? Generally, there are three chief methods.
One is western medicine, which mainly includes a variety of hormones and immunosuppressive agents, both of which have no effective methods. Why? They both can play roles in anticoagulation and inhibit immune. But they can only diminish the inflammatory reaction in a short time, control the symptoms for the time being and stop the intrinsic cells from being damaged again. Once patients with Chronic Kidney Disease are caught by cold, tiredness, etc, nephritis will recur again and become even worse. In addition, western medicine has side effects, which can even does harm to kidney.
The second one is Chinese medicine. How about Chinese medicine?
Here, before talking about Chinese medicine, it is necessary to say something about the pathological mechanism of kidney disease. According to the experts in Chinese medicine, the root of most kidney disease is the insufficiency of blood and oxygen in the kidney. When kidney is in the insufficiency of blood and oxygen, some intrinsic cells in the kidney will be damaged. With the long time lasting of insufficiency of blood and oxygen, some intrinsic cells even get necrotic, leading to renal fibrosis at last. In stage 3 of chronic kidney disease, lots of intrinsic cells are damaged and even get necrotic, leading to the shrink of kidney.
Aimed at repairing the damaged intrinsic cells, Chinese medicine contains many active and nutritious materials, which can improve the insufficiency of blood and oxygen, repair the damaged intrinsic cells and recover renal function. One shortcoming for Chinese medicine is that it has nothing to do with the necrotic cells. So, when kidney disease is serious, for example, stage 3 of chronic kidney disease, we should search another therapy.
The third therapy is stem cell transplant, which can make up or complement the shortcoming of Chinese medicine. Stem cells have potential to differentiate into cells which has different functions which the body or the kidney is in need of. So it can regenerate into necrotic intrinsic cells and revive the renal function.
In other words, the combination of Chinese medicine and stem cell can achieve a better treatment.

What Are the Symptoms of Stage 5 Kidney Disease

What are the symptoms of stage 5 kidney disease? Chronic kidney disease stage 5 means that patients have become uremia stage. GFR is less than 15 and serum creatinine is more than 707umol/L. In this stage, there are many toxins which accumulate in the body because kidney fails. The toxins give damage to many other organs or systems such as digestive system, nerve system, heart and so on.
As for digestive system’s damage, patients will feel nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, etc. As for the nerve system, patients may easy fall asleep, fatigue, dizzy, etc. Stage 5 kidney disease can also have anemia, which is caused by the insufficiency of EPO generation. EPO is produced in kidney. When kidney fails, the secretion decreases, the red blood cells can not generate normally, thus causing anemia and patients look pale on face. In turn, kidney failure leads to many toxins in the body, which threaten the life of red blood cells, worsening anemia.
What’s more, high blood pressure or hypertension will also take place in stage 5 of chronic kidney disease.
About 23% to 70% patients with chronic renal glomerular nephritis will suffer from high blood pressure with the disease developing. The more renal function declines, the higher blood pressure will be. In addition, lesion in renal parenchyma and renal tubules can also lead to high blood pressure such as insufficiency of chronic pyelonephritis. Half of them can lead to high blood pressure. High blood pressure or hypertension will in turn damage kidney. High blood pressure makes the heart work harder and, over time, can damage blood vessels throughout the body. If the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, they may stop removing wastes and extra fluid from the body. The extra fluid in the blood vessels may then raise blood pressure even more. It's a dangerous cycle.
Pain in the back can also takes place, especially for those with PKD, renal cysts and so on. Other kidney disease patients can also feel painful in back when it is knocked.

Early Stage Symptoms of CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease)

CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) is a general term of kinds of kidney disease in clinic. Most primary kidney disease, secondary kidney disease can be classified into CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease). What are the early stage symptoms of CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease)?
Because of the compensation ability of kidney, it doesn’t show any symptoms at the early stage most of time. About more than 60% of them have developed into renal insufficiency stage when they are diagnosed with kidney disease, which makes it difficult to treat kidney disease. So it is quite necessary to know about the early stage symptoms of CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) so as to get a timely treatment. The detailed symptoms for each kind of kidney disease go as follows:
1. chronic nephritis
The early symptoms for chronic nephritis are proteinuria, edema, with or without hematuria.
2. pyelonephritis
The early symptoms for pyelonephritis are frequent micturition, urgent urination, odynuria, together with increased body temperature, increased red blood cells, and so on.
3. nephrotic syndrome
The common symptoms for nephrotic syndrome are systematic edema, a large amount of proteinuria, etc.
4. IgA nephritis
The early symptoms for IgA nephritis is that after infection of upper respiratory tract, it shows asymptomatic hematuria, proteinuria, which are often seen among children and youngsters.
5. lupus nephritis
The early symptoms for lupus nephritis are weakness, fatigue, decreased weight, rash, fever, hair loss, arthralgia, etc, which are often seen among young women.
6. purpura nephritis
The early symptoms for purpura nephritis is that one to three months before it occurs, patients with purpura nephritis will have discomfort in the whole body, weakness, fever, declined appetite, and then appears purpura in skin, which is companied by arthralgia, stomachache, hematuria, and so on. Afterwards, protein in urea, red blood cells in urine, systematic edema will appear, which are often seen in youngsters and children.
7. PKD(polycystic kidney disease)
As a kind of genetic kidney disease, at the early stage, the main symptoms are pain in the back or waist, which will become sharper after strenuous work. At the same time, hematuria can also appear. Patients can touch the swelling object, which is the swelling kidney. In addition, PKD(polycystic kidney disease) patients often have high blood pressure and pain in the head.
From the above, we can get a conclusion that most of kidney disease has nearly the same symptoms such as edema, proteinuria, hematuria, etc. As long as patients find out they have got kidney disease, it has developed into renal failure. So people are suggested to have a physical examination every year. On the other hand, as soon as people are diagnosed with kidney disease, they should receive treatment as early as possible so as not to loose the best opportunity.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Renal Fibrosis and Membranous Glomerulonephritis

Renal fibrosis is a kind of pathological damage in the kidney, which shows a process how a kidney develops from a healthy one to a damaged one and even a deserted one. Due to many factors such as wound, infection, inflammation, blood circulation block, and immune and so on, the intrinsic cells will be damaged, which leads to renal sclerosis gradually, thus forming scar eventually. The renal fibrosis is characterized by the abnormal deposition of ECM.
Membranous nephropathy, which is short for MN, is a kind of renal glomerular nephritis. It is a medical term which is on the basis of renal biopsy. It can be primary one, and also can be a secondary one. It usually takes place after infection, systematic disease such as lupus nephritis, medical treatment, and cancer, etc. The characteristic of membranous nephropathy (MN) is that it recurs easily, and develops slowly. The manifestation of membranous nephropathy is nephrotic syndrome, the main symptom of which is the asymptomatic proteinuria in clinic.
What’s the relationship between renal fibrosis and membranous nephropathy? All kidney disease’s development is a renal fibrosis, and the same goes for membranous nephropathy. Generally, renal fibrosis can be divided into three periods.
The first period is inflammation stage. After kidney is damaged due to the kinds of reasons, inflammation will appear. In clinic, there is no symptom except the one in abnormal urine test. Due to the strong ability of compensation, the symptoms are hysteretic. As a matter of fact, the damage has taken place inside of the kidney. In this stage, if the treatment is timely and effective, the condition can reverse.
The second stage is renal fibrosis formation stage. In this stage, inflammation has damaged renal units and influenced renal function. If in this stage, patients receive treatment such as extending blood vessels, anticoagulation, anti-inflammation, degradation, and so on, patients can be far from dialysis. However, if patients miss the opportunity, they will come into uremia stage.
In the third stage, patients develop into uremia stage. In this stage, patients can not loose confidence, for as long as there is urine, it proves that there is blood flow in the kidney and we can let medicine come into kidney through blood flow.

Symptoms of Membranous Kidney Disease

Membranous Kidney Disease can also be called Membranous nephritis, which can be primary one and secondary one. It can be caused by infection of hepatitis virus, lupus, medical treatment and cancer. The characteristic of Membranous Kidney Disease is that it recurs easily, and develops for a long time. It is caused by the deposition of immune complex on renal glomerular basilar membrane together with increased depth. Nephrotic syndrome and proteinuria without any symptoms are the main characteristic of Membranous Kidney Disease. Membranous Kidney Disease can happen on people at any age, the most of which are adults. In addition, more than 80% of them are more than 30 years old. The summit age for this disease is 36 to 40 years old. The ratio between male to female is 1.5: 1. And males are higher than that of female. In foreign countries, Membranous Kidney Disease accounts for 30 to 50% of Nephrotic syndrome and in China, Membranous Kidney Disease accounts for 10% to 15% among Nephrotic syndrome.
Primary Membranous Kidney Disease is also not a simple disease, which can be caused by many factors and these factors cause kidney damage. Factors are such as gene and environment. Gene increases the immune response of Membranous Kidney Disease.
Although Membranous Kidney Disease can be seen in people at any age, most of whom are more than 30 years old. The average age is 40 years old and the summit age are two, which are 30 to 40 and 50 to 60. In most cases, Membranous Kidney Disease develops slowly and few of them have asymptomatic proteinuria. most of them have a large amount of proteinuria. edema is the first symptom for 80% of them and 20% of them go to see a doctor in a hospital as a result of a large amount of protein in urine. at the early stage of this disease, most of patients have no high blood pressure and with time passing by, about 30% to 50% of them will have high blood pressure.

Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome

What is Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome? What’re the differences between Nephrotic Syndrome and Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome? Nephrotic Syndrome, as we know, is a group of renal glomerular disease, which is featured by a large amount of proteinuria, serious edema, hypoproteinemia and hyperlipemia, which in a conclusion we can call three high and one low for short. Nephrotic Syndrome, as we mentioned above, can be classified into primary Nephrotic Syndrome and secondary Nephrotic Syndrome. If patients with Diabetic Nephropathy which has developed into the fourth stage have a large amount of proteinuria, serious edema, hypoproteinemia and hyperlipemia, we can say they can also be diagnosed with secondary Nephrotic Syndrome. Diabetic Nephropathy is a clinical diagnosis which is termed according to the symptoms, indexes, and so on, while Nephrotic Syndrome is a pathological diagnosis, which is termed due to cytology.
So what’s is Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome? It is named according to cytology. When people feel discomfort and are diagnosed with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome, they are so confused and wonder their real condition in detail. As a matter of fact, in recent years, the morbidity of Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome in increasing.
Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome, as its name implies, is a kind of primary Nephrotic Syndrome, which accounts for 10% of renal glomerular disease. Among adult Nephrotic Syndrome, Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome takes up 10% to 30%. Idiopathic membranous nephropathy for children is rarely seen. Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome can be found out in people with any age. Most of them begin with more than 35 years old. And the average age is 40 years. The onset climax is divided into two period: 30 to 40 years old and 50 to 60 years old.
Males who are diagnosed with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome are more than women. 80% of patients with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome have symptoms of Nephrotic Syndrome: a large amount of proteinuria, serious edema, hypoproteinemia and hyperlipemia. And 30% to 40% of them have microscopic hematuria and few of them have gross hematuria. Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome develops slowly, and it takes a long time for them to develop into renal failure. About 40% to 60% of them have renal vein thrombosis. At this stage, hormone and cytotoxic agents have no effect on it.
Generally, patients with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome have no gross hematuria. Different from much acute infection nephritis, at the early stage of this disease, patients have no high blood pressure. However, with the disease developing, 30% to 50% will have high blood pressure. At the early stage, renal function of patients with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome is normal. Several weeks or months after the onset, GFR(glomerular filtration rate)will decrease.
Normally, patients with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome have no infection of upper respiratory tract. A few of patients have asymptomatic proteinuria. 70% to 80% of them have a large amount of proteinuria. The incubation period of Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome is generally several hours to several months.
From the above-mentioned, we can get a general idea about Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome. Once diagnosed with Membranous Nephrotic Syndrome, patients should receive treatment as early as possible.

How to Reverse Lupus Nephritis with 15% Renal Function

How to reverse Lupus Nephritis with 15% renal function? 15% renal function usually means that the GFR is 15% and the normal range is 80 to 120. GFR is short for glomerular filtration rate, which is a very significant index that can show renal function.
Usually, Lupus Nephritis with 15% renal function patients have already come into dialysis stages. To reverse, we should both treat lupus and damage in kidney. In our Hospital, we mainly use systematic immunotherapy which can be divided into 6 steps which goes as follows: immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. It is a combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine. For patients with 15% renal function and suffer from Lupus Nephritis, they will mainly use immune clearance first after the diagnosis. For serious patients with Lupus Nephritis, they often have red bufferfly in the face, etc, which makes them painful. Generally, in our hospital, such patients take Chinese Medicine every day, more than one plasma and more than three times monoclonal antibody. Monoclonal antibody includes Basiliximab and rituximab, both of which is effective and can control the condition in a short time including diminishing protein in urine.
In many western countries, most immunosuppressive agents are used in immune inhibition. In our Hospital, besides these, we still have immune block, and the above medicines are used, which is more advanced than immune inhibition. Because it contains Chinese medicine, it has no side effects, and can repair the damaged intrinsic cells and increase the immunity at the same time, which prevents the recurrence of Lupus Nephritis. Stem cells are also applied to both increase immunity and differentiate into cells the kidney needs. After that, 15% renal function will be greatly improved.
For more information about how to reverse Lupus Nephritis with 15% renal function with the help of immunotherapy.

Examinations Lupus Nephritis Patients Should Do

Before treatment, patients with Lupus Nephritis should take many examinations to get a scientific diagnosis. And generally, the examinations are as follows:
Since patients with Lupus Nephritis is an autoimmune disease, which damages many organs, besides the conventional examinations of rheumatic disease, patients should also test the autoantibody, which includes ANAs, anti-DSDNA antibody, anti-ssDNAantibody, ENA antibody repertoire, Smith antibody, RNA antibody, SS-A antibody, SS-B antibody, ACA, etc. In addition, the lupus cells are positive in 40% to 70% of patients with Lupus Nephritis. TPab is positive in 2% to 15% patients with Lupus Nephritis. The examination of cell’s immune function can also help test whether Lupus is under activity. The blood of patients with Lupus is always in hypercoagulable state. The blood flow test can also supply evidence for the treatment of dissolving of stasis and improving the blood circulation.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Symptoms of SLE

SLE is short for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, the damage of which is mainly on the kidney in the later time. SLE is a kind of autoimmune disease which begins from skin damage and spreads to the whole body. Generally, 90% patients have damage in the kidney, which directly influences the diagnosis. Patients who are diagnosed with SLE are concerned about the symptoms, which go as follows:
1. Patients with SLE have symptoms in the whole body such as intermitted fever, red spot in face the shape of which looks like butterfly, painless dental ulcer, and swollen pain in joints. In addition, patients can also have abnormal mental condition and pale face after touching cold. After that, face looks purple, and then turns normal.
2. Patients with SLE can also have symptoms in kidney. They can suffer from pure hematuria or pure proteinuria, or hematuria and proteinuria accompanied by edema, sour back or high blood pressure, which is quite similar with renal glomerular nephritis. What’s more, patients can also have hematuria and proteinuria which is accompanied by acute renal function decline.
3. Patients with SLE can also have abnormal physical test such as blood test. The amount of white blood cells decreases or the blood cells decreases, the complement C3 decreases, and the autoantibody shows positive. In addition, renal biopsy can also help diagnose the degree how kidney is damaged.
So from the above, we can get a conclusion that once the disease can not be controlled well, renal failure and even uremia will appear. So once diagnosed with SLE, patients should seize the best opportunity to treat.
In our hospital, we have immunotherapy, which can treat SLE better and the whole therapy can be divided into 6 steps such as immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. In addition, immunotherapy is also a combination therapy of Chinese medicine and western medicine, which means that it can not only treat SLE but also has no side effects, which is especially suitable for the children and women.

The new treatment of Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease)

Just as the name implies, is caused by lupus. Lupus Nephritis is a kind of immune disease, whose damage can spread towards many other organs such as skin, joints, brain, blood, and so on. The damage spreads to kidney is called Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease). In the abroad, there are 50 cases among 100, 000 people, and in China, there are 70 cases among 100,000 people.
The term Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease) comes from Latin, medical research field. It is said that when wolfs are fighting with each other, they will bite each other on face until it bleeds. Thus, red scar will come into being. So Lupus Nephritis patients’ face is the same as that of fighted wolfs. So experts in medical field call this Lupus.
Lupus can cause damage to the tissues and organs in the whole body. Among them, kidney damage is mostly common seen. The report shows that about 80% of patients with lupus will have damage in kidney sooner or later. If they have a renal biopsy, all of them have pathological damage in kidney. Those who have been diagnosed to have protein in urine, red blood cells in urine or renal function decline can be diagnosed with Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease). The damage degree of kidney directly influenced the prognosis of lupus.
The pathological causes are not clear. In most of time, it may be caused by environmental factors such as infection of virus, the ultraviolet irradiation, medicine, and so on. Influenced by these, people who have already had genetic factors begin to have immune response. The immune function is out of order, so the body produces pathological autoantibody and immune complex continuously. Eventually, Lupus Nephritis comes into being. Normally, the organic body can produce autoantibody, which can resist with the tissues, through which, we do not suffer from disease. In other words, immune system protects us and prevents us from being caught by disease. If the immune system is out of order, disease will exist.
How should we treat Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease)? As we mentioned above, Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease) is an immune disease, so the focus of the treatment should also adjust the immune system.
The first step is systematic diagnosis, which is the premise of the treatment. If the diagnosis is not scientific, we can not assure the effect of treatment. The second step is brand new medicine. Among kidney diseases which are related to the immune, most of them are caused by immune reaction. So it is more necessary for doctors and experts to research the treatment of immune medicated kidney disease. A creative treatment which can stop the immune comes out, which can inhibit the immune inflammation response rapidly, and stop the abnormal damage of the intrinsic cells. To achieve it, firstly our treatment is based on the scientific treatment, which can tell the type of immune reaction and find out where the immune complex is. Secondly, the brand new therapy has little side effect, the technology of which is connected with the most advanced one in the world. The third step is that patients with Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease) are brought into the stage of immune tolerance. Tolerance means bearing. In other words, it means that human bodys try to adapt themselves to the deposition of pathogenic materials in the kidney. In the fourth step, patients with In the fourth step, patients with Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease) are brought into immune adjustment stage.
So patients with Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease) are not necessary to worry for there must be a hope. More information about the treatment of Lupus Nephritis (Lupus kidney disease), please consult us.

Why Is Lupus Nephrtis an Immune Disease

When somebody is diagnosed with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease), doctors will tell the person that he or she has got an immune disease. Why? As we know, people usually have been influenced by many factors before they suffer from Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) such as genetic factor, the abnormal amount of hormone secretion, environmental factors such as infection, sunshine shining, change of diet, medicines and so on. Faced with one or two of the above mentioned environmental factors, some will suffer from Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) and some will not. Why? It is because of the immune system. Immune system is a system which can protect us and prevent us from getting disease. If the pathological disease is invading us, the immune system will start to work. Those whose immune system is strong enough will not get the disease while those whose immune system is not strong enough will get disease. So from the above, we can get a conclusion that patients with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) has lower immunity compared those who are not allergic to the pathological substances.
Even people are diagnosed with Lupus Nephrtis, (Lupus Kidney Disease) it is not necessary to be nervous for we have researched a systematic and scientific treatment for it, which is called immune treatment. The core techonology of the therapy are as follows:
Firstly, before patients receive treatment, they should receive a scientific treatment because if the diagnosis is wrong, we will treat the disease by mistake, which can not only delay the treatment, but also will worsen the condition. Let alone the money which is spent.
Secondly, after patients with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) receive effective diagnosis treatment, they should receive effective treatment. Nearly 95% percent of kidney diseases are due to immune disorder. And Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) is no exception. Among kidney diseases which are related to the immune, most of them are caused by immune reaction. So it is more necessary for doctors and experts to research the treatment of immune medicated kidney disease. A creative treatment which can stop the immune comes out, which can inhibit the immune inflammation response rapidly, and stop the abnormal damage of the intrinsic cells. To achieve it, firstly our treatment is based on the scientific treatment, which can tell the type of immune reaction and find out where the immune complex is.
Thirdly, patients with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) are brought into the stage of immune tolerance. Tolerance means bearing. In other words, it means that human bodies try to adapt themselves to the deposition of pathogenic materials in the kidney. After the immune blocking treatment, although the tissue inflammatory damage and cell damage are stopped, the damaged intrinsic cells and immune complex which deposited in kidney have not been cleared. Based on this, three measures are taken to deal with it.
Fourthly, patients with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) come into immune adjustment stage. Our human body will not allow the long time existence of immune complex and damaged cells. So clearing these abnormal substances is an inborn ability of human body, which is called the rejection ability.
Fifthly, patients with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) come into immune protection stage. Only the above mentioned are not enough, which can not stop the further damage to the kidney. In this step, damaged cells are repaired, damaged tissues are also rebuilt.
Last but not least, patients with Lupus Nephrtis (Lupus Kidney Disease) come into immune clearance treatment, and in this stage, immune absorption, plasma exchange and blood purification is applied.
Maybe from the above mentioned, some can get a conclusion that what we talked about are western medicine treatment. As a matter of fact, firstly, the method is different from western ones, on the other hand, during the whole process, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is applied, which can create a proper treatment environment. The function of anticoagulation, preventing thrombosis of Micro-Chinese Medicine can also make up the insufficiency of immune treatment. In addition, Micro-Chinese Medicine can decrease the side effect in the immune treatment, which can assure the effect of immune treatment.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Is Immune Disease

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is autoimmune disease, about 90% of which can lead to damage in kidney. The cause has not been clear, but the pathogenesis is definite, which can be divided into the following points:
Firstly, in the body of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, there are kinds of autoantibody such as ones which are used to resist nucleus, resist cytoplasm, and so on.
Secondly, nearly all patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus have abnormal immune. B cells in the blood can be highly activated, and a large amount of antibody comes into being, which can lead to antoimmune reaction.
Thirdly, in tissues of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, we can see the deposition of immune globulin, complement, and DNA. In the eluent, we can see the antibody of DNA.
All the above mentioned indicates that Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is autoimmune disease.
The symptoms of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus are as follows:
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus usually invades many organs and tissues such as skin, joints, kidney, heart, blood and nerve system. The lesions which take place in the organs can take place at the same time and can also take place one by one. The main complaint and symptoms can also be different. The main clinical systems can be fever, butterfly red spot in face, Symmetry joint swelling, pericarditis caused by renal damage, liver damage, symptoms in digestive tract and mental symptoms and so on.
What about the treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus? In western countries, immune inhibiting is used such as hormones and immunosuppressive agent which can stop the excessive immune response. However, as we mentioned in the above articles, when kidney disease takes place, immune complex has deposited in the kidney already. As we know, our kidney need nothing which despite onto the kidney at all. And long time deposition must cause damage in kidney. However, on clearing the immune complex, western medicine can not achieve better treatment. So we should use the combination treatment of western medicine and Chinese medicine.
In our hospital, the experts have researched out a new therapy which can combine the advantages of both western medicine and Chinese medicine. It can be divided into 6 steps: scientific diagnosis, scientific medicine, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection and immune clearance.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Lupus Nephritis Activity Index

The clinical manifestations of Lupus Nephritis has some relationship with its pathological change. Generally speaking, the manifestation of mesangium glomerular nephritis is relatively slight, and there is no abnormal urine, which can appear as latent nephritis. Focal segmental proliferative nephritis can also be called latent nephritis or chronic nephritis. Few of them can exist as Nephrotic Syndrome. Diffuse prolilferative nephritis can also manifest as Nephrotic Syndrome, which accounts for about 75%.
At present, according to the type classification of WHO, it is believed that it can not supply enough judgement for the prognosis and treatment. So later, the activity index is created.
Evaluating the activity index of Lupus Nephritis is a convenient method which can judge how serious the condition is and the activity degree of Lupus Nephritis. In addition, it is also a good evidence which can instruct the draft of clinical treatment. On the basis of experts Ye Zhigao in China, we divide Lupus Nephritis into three levels.
1. If the point is 7 to 10, it indicates that patients are in active activity period.
2. If the point is 3 to 6, it indicates that patients are in moderate activity period.
3. If the point is 1to 3, it indicates that patients are in mild activity period.
4. If the point is less than 1 point, it indicates that the condition is stable, or patients are in quiet stage.
According to the above mentioned, we can use different dosage of hormone, cyclophosphamide, and other medicine such as Chinese medicine to treat it. In western countries, more and more patients are seeking a more effective method which can stop their suffering considering the side effects hormones cause.
Diminishing the above side effects and inheriting the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, Immunotherapy includes both Chinese medicine, stem cells and some western medicine. It has little side effect and can also focus on the pathological mechanism: immune problem. Further speaking, it can be divided into 6 steps, which includes scientific diagnosis, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment, immune protection and immune clearance.

Lupus Erythematosus and Immunotherapy

Lupus Erythematosus is a category for a collection of diseases with similar underlying problems with immunity (autoimmune disease). Symptoms of these diseases can affect many different body systems, including joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, heart, and lungs. Four main types of lupus exist — systemic lupus Erythematosus, discoid lupus erythematosus, drug-induced Lupus Erythematosus, and neonatal lupus erythematosus. Of these, systemic lupus Erythematosus is the most common and serious form of lupus.
What about the treatment of Lupus Erythematosus? Immunosuppressive agent is applied to stop the excessively immune response, and as we mentioned in the above, the cause of Lupus Erythematosus is the excessive immune response. So immunosuppressive agent is used to stop the excessive immune response, which has proved that the effect is not so satisfactory for in the world, we can not find an absolute effect medicine which can control the excessive immune response. How could we treat Lupus Erythematosus?
The best method is the combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine because both of them have disadvantage and the combination of them can make up.

How to Treat Lupus Nephritis with Chinese Medicine

Lupus Nephritis is a common kidney damage among Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, which is caused by the deposition of immune complex in the kidney. The pathological lesion is mainly in renal glomerular disease, which is also often seen in renal tubules and renal mesenchyme. In renal biopsy, 80% to 90% of patients have damage in kidney. What surprised us most is that 100% percent of them have kidney damage, which shows as Nephritis or Nephrotic Syndrome. Patients with Nephritis have red blood cells, white blood cells and protein in urine. With the disease developing, patients may develop into uremia at the end stage. In renal biopsy, the pathological damage can be divided into Focal hyperplastic glomerulonephritis and Diffuse hyperplastic glomerulonephritis. The former is relatively slight and the latter is relatively severer, and what’s more, it develops progressively and has bad prognosis.
Nephrotic Syndrome caused by Lupus Nephritis shows as membrane renal glomerular nephritis or diffuse hyperplastic glomerulonephritis. As for diffuse hyperplastic glomerulonephritis, besides a large amount of proteinuria, there also exist many other damages such as red blood cells in urine, urinary cylinder and high blood pressure. In some particular cases, slight protein in urine and no kidney disease is found in the latter one.
How about the treatment of Lupus Nephritis?
Conventional treatment and western medicine treatment go as follows:
The common western medicine which is used to treat Lupus Nephritis is such as hormone, immunosuppressant, and so on. Generally, hormone and immunosuppressant are used together to treat symptoms such as controlling the leak out of protein from urine, which leads to hypoproteinemia consequently. Diuretic is used to relieve edema rapidly in Lupus Nephritis patients’ body.
However, just as we point out above, western medicine just focuses on symptoms, which does not emphasize fundamental factors which leads to Lupus Nephritis.
In contrast, Chinese Medicine can achieve better treatment. Chinese Medicine is abstracted from traditional Chinese medicine and has a micro-process compared with traditional Chinese medicine, which means that the use ratio is increased. Secondly, Chinese Medicine is not taken in orally but through osmosis in renal area, which also means that it will not stimulate the stomach and guts, which may lead to poor appetite. Thirdly, Chinese Medicine can promote the blood circulation and dissolve the stasis in the blood, creating a clearer inner environment. Last but not least, Chinese Medicine contains many active and nutritious substances, which can repair the damaged intrinsic cells and prevent proteins and red blood cells, etc from leaking out fundamentally.
Apart from these, patients with Lupus Nephritis should also prevent from sunlight. In summer, remember to wear a hat when you prepare to go out. When you have fever, pain in the joint, protein in urine, lie down and have a good rest. If edema and high blood pressure appear, patients with Lupus Nephritis should keep low salt diet.

Common Symptoms of Lupus Nephropathy

Lupus Nephropathy is a kind of secondary kidney disease which is caused by long time lupus, and the kidney damage mainly takes place in renal glomeruli. Lupus is a kind of auto immune disease, which is caused by the deposition of immune complex in the kidney and the damage of which can spread to many organs in the body in the whole blood system. Lupus Nephropathy is usually seen in women, especially those with young age.
1.Patients with Lupus Nephropathy have red blood cells, white blood cells and protein in urine. With the disease developing, patients may develop into uremia at the end stage. proteinuria is almost existing with different degree edema, About 50% performance for nephrotic syndrome;Contiuning microscopic hematuria is common but there had been no reports of exist alone; 40% had hypertension. About 50% have kidney function decline, it can also result in acute renal failure. Always have renal tubular dysfunction.
2. Hypertention or high blood pressure can often appear when Lupus Nephropathy is severe.
3. Rash, especially butterfly rash on the face can also appear on patients with lupus nephritis.
4. Symptoms in gastrointestinal tract, which are such as nausea, abdominal pain, liver or spleen becoming bigger account for 30-40%.
5. Symptoms in blood system are such as anemia, which is the most common, white blood cells and thrombocytopenia.
6. Cardiovascular anomalies: lesions also involved the endocardial, myocardial and pericardium, and a few can have vasculitis and Renault's phenomenon.
7.Nervous system: the mild involvement is often seen, such as judgment, short-term memory loss, abnormal behavior, a headache. In addition to mental illness, relatively convulsions is rare.
8.Joint symptoms: joint muscle pain, usually involve all the joint of limbs, show the acute inflammatory process.
9.Others: fever, discomfort, weight loss, photosensitive, hair loss and lymph node enlargement, etc.
From the above, we can get the symptoms of Lupus Nephropathy. Realizing it is essential, we should also pay attention to how to treat it. On the basis of its pathological mechanism, experts researched out immunotherapy, which can control and treat Lupus Nephropathy.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Common Sense

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is an autoimmune disease, which occurs every now and then, and becomes worse and worse with the recurrence. However, patients should not be so desperate once diagnosed with SLE. The above is some common sense about what we should pay attention to.
Firstly, patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus should have confidence that one day they can get a good treatment and do not loose heart. At present, standard treatment such as immunotherapy can make sure SLE patients have normal life and work, and prolong their life to more than 20 years and even more than 35 years.
Secondly, patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus should keep stable mood and do not be nervous, which can worsen the disease.
Thirdly, if patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus are under treatment of hormone and cyclophosphamide, they should not stop using it randomly. Too suddenly increasing the amount of medicine can lead to the recurrence easily. In addition, decreasing the amount of medicine can also lead to increased side effects.
Fourthly, patients with SLE should also have regular examination in hospital. Usually, after the index shows some abnormal signs, patients start to have or feel discomfort. Regular examination is very necessary and important. Usually, for those whose condition is not stable, they should have urine test and blood test in the hospital at least once a month. If there is something abnormal, they should connect with the doctors in time so as to make sure they can get recovery soon.
Last but not least, do not believe in superstitious prescription. Some patients hold the idea that the more money they spend, the better the effect will be. SLE in the world till now is still a refractory disease, which can not be treated well easily. The main therapy for it is immunotherapy.

Lupus Nephropathy Relapses, What Should I Do

In May, 2011, I was diagnosed with lupus nephropathy. In 2012, January, red spot appeared in my face, which looks like bufferfly. Then I went to local hospital, skin department. 10 days after I lived there, with the help of a large dosage of hormone, the symptoms are controlled and I feel better with the diminishing of red spot. However, in these days, I feel ache where there were red spots before. Ache is so frequent. Does it mean Lupus Nephropathy relapse? What should I do? I’m 32, female.
Dear lady, please don’t worry. We can help you solve it. Firstly, Lupus Nephropathy is an autoimmune disease which in most of time occurs in young females and will recur easily if the treatment is not effective. In the world, a large dosage of hormone is applied just as you mentioned in clinic, which can control the symptoms, relieve the suffering for the time being. However, it can not treat Lupus Nephropathy, which leads to the recurrence. Why? Lupus Nephropathy is an autoimmune disease, so if we want to cure it completely, we should adjust the immune system and increase the immunity of patients.
On the basis of this theory, immunotherapy is innovated, which can be divided into immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. Here, we would like to introduce immune clearance, in which, plasma exchange is applied, which is especially suitable for Lupus Nephropathy patients. Although the immune complex is cleared away, there are also damaged intrinsic cells, which lead to a new circle of immune response. So in the next step, immune adjustment and immune protection are applied, which includes Chinese Medicine and stem cell, both of which can not only repair the damaged intrinsic cells and adjustment the immune system, thus increasing the immunity as well. After these, Lupus Nephropathy can be treated fundamentally.
We believe, after it, Lupus Nephropathy can not relapse, so you can have a try. Hope you can get rid of the suffering forever.

Treatment for Lupus Nephritis in 2012

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is autoimmune disease, about 90% of which can lead to damage in kidney. Symptoms of these diseases can affect many different body systems, including joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, heart, and lungs.
To begin with, we should have a brief introduction why immune disease comes into being. As long as we live, our body will fight with the pathological factors such as bacteria and virus with immune system such as white blood cells to keep us healthy. The bacteria and virus are called antigen and the cells which defend are called antibody. The combination of antigen and antibody is called immune complex, which is usually called cycling immune complex.
In normal condition, the recycling immune complex flow through kidney together with blood circulation, deposit on kidney, and the intrinsic immune system can discharge them out. However, when the immune system is damaged, the immune complex cannot be discharged out, so they will deposit and lead to a series of excessive immune response.
In western countries, immune inhibiting is used such as hormones and immunosuppressive agent which can stop the excessive immune response for patients with Lupus Nephritis. However, as we mentioned in the above articles, when kidney disease takes place, immune complex has deposited in the kidney already, which means that there will be further immune reaction.
Accordingly, experts researched out immunotherapy by our own, which can be divided into 6 steps: immune diagnosis, immune inhibition, immune clearance, immune tolerance, immune adjustment, immune protection.
Compared with hormones and immunosuppressive agent in western medicine, we mainly introduce steps from immune clearance. In immune clearance steps, we mainly clear away the immune complex which lies in the blood with plasma exchange in particular. Here pay attention that in this step, we mainly use blood purification technology, which can only clear away those in blood and can not clear those deposit onto kidney.
In immune adjustment, immune protection steps, we mainly use Chinese medicine, which can improve the blood circulation, including micro-blood circulation and dissolve the blood stasis, and clear away the immune complex which deposit onto the kidney, thus stopping immune reaction eventually. In addition, stem cells are also applied, which can also increase the immunity as well as traditional Chinese medicine.
For more information about how immunotherapy treats Lupus Nephritis in our hospital, please consult us online or email us. All your information will be kept confidential.

Steroids and Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis, which can also be called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is a kind of autoimmune disease, which comes into being when the body resists against the virus and bacteria from invading. At present, doctors can not make sure the fundamental cause of it, but we clearly know that once there is something wrong in the immune system, symptoms will appear such as fever, pain in joint, and so on, which also includes the damage in the kidney. It is estimated that the death rate of Lupus Nephritis(SLE)is also high. In 1960s, the survival rate is only 20%. With the development of medical field, steroid, a kind of hormone is used in clinic, which decreases the death rate year by year. It is reported that in 1970s, the survival rate rises as high as 57%. In 1990s, the survival rate is as high as 75%, and at present, the survival rate rises as high as 90% to 95%. So we can get a conclusion that choosing proper medicine is very important. Steroids has become priority in some countries.
Steroids can inhibit the immune response at a rapid speed and can also reduce the damage which is caused by inflammatory materials which is relieved in the immune response. Such immune inhibition is a protection to the organic body. However, large dose of application will also lead to side effects. After all, in some cases, patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) should receive large dose of steroid especially when it recurs. So how to avoid this?
In our hospital, on the basis of this, we have researched out a brand new therapy which is called Immunotherapy, to achieve the above mentioned effect and also decrease the side effect maximally. That’s because Immunotherapy contains Chinese Medicine, which contains active herbs, which can both promote the blood circulation, repair the damaged intrinsic cells and increase the immunity of the human body. Just as we mentioned in the above, Lupus Nephritis is an autoimmune disease.
Now Immunotherapy is widely applied in our hospital, which also proves its effects. If you have any further interest in it, please consult us online or email us.