Saturday 22 October 2011

High Creatinine in Dialysis Patient

“I am on dialysis, but why do I still have high creatinine level?” Many patients undergoing dialysis have this kind of doubt. Here we will explain it in detail.
Firstly, you should know why you have to go on dialysis and what the function of this treatment is.
No matter what caused your kidney disease and which kind it belongs to, the result is the same: your kidneys will gradually lose their function and failed to finish their task. This is called end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Generally, the options for this stage is either dialysis or kidney transplant. Here we just talk about dialysis.
How does dialysis help to treat your kidney failure? Actually, dialysis is not “treating” your kidney failure at all—it just take the place of the kidneys to perform the functions that should have been done by the kidneys. When the kidneys have lost most of their functions, dialysis is needed to help your kidneys to filter your blood and clean the metabolic wastes.
Secondly, why you still have high creatinine level after the dialysis treatment?
We have explained that dialysis is just a replacement therapy of kidney failure. You have to do dialysis regularly because your body is continuously producing metabolic wastes, which must be cleared out from time to time. Creatinine is just one of the metabolic products.
Creatinine is the waste product of protein metabolism. Derived from creatine and synthesized in liver, kidneys and pancreas and stored in muscle tissue. Creatinine is released into the extracellular fluid and excreted through the kidneys. Creatinine is filtered by the glomeruli and NOT reabsorbed. When kidneys are working properly, serum creatinine level is low but with renal function impaired, creatinine level increases. If half of nephrons are damaged then serum creatinine level rises to about double.
During dialysis, your creatinine would have a fluctuation. When you have just finished the dialysis, your creatinine level would go down because creatinine in your blood has been cleaned out by the dialysis. Therefore, creatinine does not really go down during dialysis (meaning while on dialysis not actually while on the machine during a run). Creatinine doesn't go down basically because labs are usually taken before a dialysis session so you can get an idea of where the body is at; if it was taken right after a dialysis session it would be artificially lower, because the toxins would be removed. Anyway since the creatinine is just a measure of the toxins in the blood and the kidneys aren’t doing their job it will remain high, reflecting the fact that toxins are building up between dialysis sessions(and hence the need for dialysis). Once on dialysis the creatinine measure is mostly irrelevant anyway since the renal function is gone anyway.
Another factor is that different kinds of dialysis have different effect. The two basic types of dialysis are hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Compared with hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis can lower the creatinine to a smaller degree. That is to say, your creatinine can be lowered by peritoneal dialysis not as much as hemodialysis.
Normal creatinine level (for reference):
Men = 0.6~1.5 mg/dL
Women = 0.6~1.1 mg/dL
Pregnancy = reduced in children = 0.2~1.0 mg/dL
That’s all for high creatinine level in patients undergoing dialysis.

Treatment for Recurrent Nephrotic Syndrome

Treatment for Recurrent Nephrotic Syndrome
Nephrotic syndrome is a nonspecific disorder in which the kidneys are damaged, causing them to leak large amounts of protein (proteinuria at least 3.5 grams per day per 1.73m2 body surface area) from the blood into the urine.
Kidneys affected by nephrotic syndrome have small pores in the podocytes, large enough to permit proteinuria (and subsequently hypoalbuminemia, because some of the protein albumin has gone from the blood to the urine) but not large enough to allow cells through (hence no hematuria). By contrast, in nephritic syndrome, RBCs pass through the pores, causing hematuria.
At present, the traditional treatment for Nephrotic Syndrome is adrenocortical hormone, such as prednisone, hexadecadrol, etc. Nephrotic Syndrome needs large dosage of medicine to treat. Hormone treatment has the advantage of inhibiting immune response, and stopping urine protein and occult blood symptomatically. It can not repair the renal pathological damage. Although, urine protein and occult blood will turn to negative shortly, it is temporary actually. The disease can be induced easily by cold, tire, infection, or improper reducing medicine dosage. Moreover, the pathological damage will be worsened by each recurrent, resulting in protracted disease course. Hormone treatment is also a very important cause for the recurrent of Nephrotic Syndrome.
Hormone as well as other immunosuppressants and cytotoxic medicines are all targeted at the symptoms, but they can not repair the damaged kidney. Thus, if people want to treat Nephrotic Syndrome fundamentally, they must adopt the combined therapy of Chinese and Western medicine. By this therapy, Western medicine will ease the symptoms which can solve the problems of low effect of Chinese medicine and damaged renal tissues caused by long-term application of Chinese medicine. And once the Micro-Chinese Medicine enters the lesions, the active substances in the Chinese medicine can dilate systemic vessels of all levels, provide blood and oxygen for damaged cells through increasing blood perfusion so as to fundamentally ease the renal state of ischemia and hypoxia and reduce the further impairment of renal cells.
In addition,  Immunotherapy   have been applied into kidney disease treatment in recent years. Immunotherapy   have the characters of unlimited proliferation, multi-direction differentiation, support hematopoiesis, immune regulation, self-replication etc, which can be used as the ‘seed cells’ to repair the damaged tissues and organs. In recent years, clinical research has proved that  Immunotherapy   can differentiate into renal inherent cells and renal parenchyma cells etc, and then repair and rebuild the renal function. Micro-Chinese Medicine combined with  Immunotherapy   has a therapeutic effect for treating Kidney Disease.
So, to solve the problem of recurrent is to treat nephrotic syndrome from root. Hope my explanation can make you understand, and send your daughter to receive correct treatment as soon as possible. We are really worried about most of the parents who don't know the correct treatment for Nephrotic Syndrome miss the best treatment time for their .
In fact, their condition can be reversed and even recover through proper treatment. But, due to the improper treatment, the illness condition worse and worse, entering end-stage of kidney disease finally. At that time, no treatment will be helpful, besides dialysis and kidney transplantation.

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Is Dialysis Inevitable for Diabetics

Diabetes Mellitus is always called Silent Killer due to its severity and latent complications. Once someone gets Diabetes, various complications are just around the corner. Among them, Diabetic Nephropathy is always attached much importance to, and finally the dialysis become inevitable if there is no effective treatment in time. Is dialysis really inevitable for Diabetes? We get some knowledge of Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy first.
Diabetes is characterized by the retention of blood glucose in human body which is aroused by the decreased function of pancreas and the insulin resistance. During the course, kidneys are always involved in. When there are some pathological changes in kidney, we can find the basilar membrane become broad, accompanied by proliferation of mesangial cells and the hyperplasia of extracellular matrixes in glomeruli, and also the broadening and nodosity of glomerular capsules.
There is no exact reason to explain the involvement of kidney during Diabetes. However, according to the study of pathology, we can illustrate it in the following way.
The key reason can be abnormal hemodynamics in kidneys. When the level of blood glucose is higher, the glomeruli will be in a situation of high perfusion and high filtration, so the pressure in capillaries will rise and epithelial cells in glomeruli will drop as well. Also, the type IV collagen in basilar membrane become more, so the mesangial area broadens and glomeruli are sclerosed. Meanwhile, excessive protein accumulates in basilar membrane, promoting the proliferation of extracellular matrixes. What's more, the genetic history and high blood pressure are the influencing factors for diabetics to develop Diabetic Nephropathy.
Once the kidneys are involved in the Diabetes, the course of it can be divided into five stages. In the early stages, say, the stage 1, 2, and 3, The Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) is at first higher and become normal later then; the disease condition can be reversed if effective treatment can be provided, and if no, more than 90% of the suffers can become the really obvious Diabetic Nephropathy. Then, it progresses into clinical Diabetic Nephropathy during which the GFR decreases accompanied by Hypertension in most cases, and If the blood pressure cannot be controlled well, the GFR will deteriorate rapidly, so that the suffers will develop Kidney Failure within 5-8 years, that is to say, in the end stage of Diabetic Nephropathy. The GFR decreases to be less than 10ml/min; the levels of urea nitrogen and creatinine increase; edema and Hypertension aggravate further, and Hypoproteinemia will appear. What's worse, retinal changes and nerve changes will come together with the Diabetic Nephropathy in many cases. Generally speaking, when the patient is in his stage 4, the serum creatinine will be higher than 400umol/L. In stage 5, the level of creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) rises obviously, and when the creatinine is as high as 700umol/L, dialysis is inevitably necessary because almost all the kidney functions are lost already.
Here is the summarized introduction from which you can know how the Diabetes develops into Diabetic Nephropathy, and how the dialysis become inevitable. In the end stage of Diabetic Nephropathy, kidneys lose most functions so all the wastes in human body need to be excreted outside with the help of dialysis. From all those mentioned above, we can know the importance of effective and timely treatment for Diabetes. Only when the condition is controlled in the early stages, can the progress be decelerated. Also, when effective treatment can be provided, the dialysis can be avoided thereby.

how to treat Chronic Kidney Disease

What is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)?
Chronic kidney disease includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by doing the jobs listed. If kidney disease gets worse, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. You may develop complications like high blood pressure, anemia (low blood count), weak bones, poor nutritional health and nerve damage. Also, kidney disease increases your risk of having heart and blood vessel disease. These problems may happen slowly over a long period of time. Chronic kidney disease may be caused by diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders. Early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney disease from getting worse. When kidney disease progresses, it may eventually lead to kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life.
how to treat Chronic kidney disease?
There are micro-chinese medicine in shijiazhuang kidney disease.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the innovative therapy summarized by years of treatment practice of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, the core technology of which is to make the effective prescriptions of kidney disease superfinely shattered, the aim of which is to fully release and mix the effective ingredients. Then with the help of effective penetrant and osmosis devices, the effective medicines are permeated into kidney lesions by external application, thus achieving the goal of treating kidney disease. This external application method not only eliminated the problem of toxic and side-effect of oral drugs, but also achieved the aim of transferring medicine ingredients right to the lesion. Moreover, this innovative therapy has been proved effective and convenient by clinical practice. This therapy has become one of the supportive characteristic core iatrotechnics in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, which occupied the main status in the treatment technique of our hospital. The therapeutic mechanism is: by blood vessels expanding, anti-inflammation, anticoagulation, anti blood viscidity and fibrosis substance degradation, achieve the goal of blocking the process of renal fibrosis, recovering damaged inherent renal cells and renal function, and rebuilding the proper structure.
Chinese herb medicine treats CKD mainly from the following aspect:
Improve micro circulation
Chinese herb medicine has effect in promoting micro circulation which contributes to improving ischemia and anoxia of the kidneys. Ischemia and anoxia of the kidneys are root causes of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Chinese herb medicine can well improves such condition by promoting blood circulation of the kidneys.
Clear up wastes in the blood
It is very familiar to patients with CKD that many wastes build up in their blood because the kidneys cannot work normally. Some of wastes are harmful to the body. When there are too much, they will poison many organs and cause other problems. In this regard, Chinese herb medicine also has effect. It can promote process of filtering wastes by enlarging blood vessels, anti-inflammation and anticoagulation. In this case, symptoms like high blood pressure, loss of appetite, itching, high level of urea and uric acid will be relieved.
Repair the damaged renal functional cells
The kidneys cannot work normally due to damage of renal functional cells. To treat Chronic Kidney Disease, damaged renal functional cells must be repaired. This is what western medicines cannot do. Chinese herb medicine can help to repair the damage renal functional cells due to its two characteristics. One is that Chinese herb medicine can provide essential substances during restoration, such as vitamin, organic acid, trace elements, etc. The other is that some ingredients of Chinese herb medicines can stimulate damaged renal functional cells to start self-repairing mechanism and speed up DNA Replication in damaged renal functional cells.
Improve immunity
Chinese herb medicine has good effect in fighting inflammation in the kidneys, thus improving patients’ immunity. This is different from some western medicines, which often decreases immunity. These medicines include steroid, immunosuppressive agents, cytotoxic agents and medicines taken to deal with rejection after kidney transplant.
Chinese herb medicine treats Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) mainly from the above aspects. Many clinical practices have proven that Chinese herb medicine effective in treating Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Till now, it has helped many patients with CKD.

How to Prevent Polycystic Kidney Disease from Developing into Renal Failure

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a hereditary disease which manifests itself as multiple or countless fluid cysts on bilateral kidneys. The changes cause the kidneys to become enlarged obviously and lose their normal shape. Along with the development of the disease, the amount of cysts becomes more and the volume becomes larger. At last, Renal Failure appears as a result of severe damage to the renal tissues. Then how to prevent Polycystic Kidney Disease from developing into Renal Failure?
First you should know what the clinical symptoms of Renal Failure are. There are multiple symptoms of PKD-induced Renal Failure. In addition to pathognomonic symptoms of PKD like waist pain, abdominal mass (enlarged kidneys) and hematuria, there can be many other complications the most common ones of which include hypertension, cyst infection, cyst fracture etc. At the advanced stage, other symptoms like abdominal intumescentia, distending pain, dyspnea, diuresis and infection, nausea and vomiting can also occur, leaving the patients suffering a lot.
When Polycystic Kidney Disease develops into Renal Failure, there isn’t any radical cure at present. The most important thing for the patients is early and positive treatment so as to prevent deterioration of the disease and occurrence of its complications. The purpose is to protect the remained renal function and avoid further damage to the kidneys. There are several ways to prevent Polycystic Kidney Disease from developing into renal failure.
1. Early detection of the disease.
According to statistics, Polycystic Kidney Disease has 60% to 70% of genetic predisposition. There is equal expectancy in male and female. Therefore, in a family with a family history of PKD, there can be several persons who have the disease at the same time. Generally, symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease begin to occur when the patient is 25~35 years old or when kidney failure begins. Therefore, people with such a family history had better do screening tests regularly in order to detect and treat the disease early. The commonly used test methods like B ultrasound, CT and MRI can all be used to diagnose PKD. Serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen can reflect the degree of renal functional damage as well as the stage of the disease.
2. Early prevention and treatment of complications.
Hypertension, urinary tract infection and cyst fracture are common complications of Polycystic Kidney Disease, and they are also the important factors that induce and aggravate renal functional damage, so they should be treated and controlled in time. During the process of medication, renal toxicity should be avoided. If there appears unceasing hematuria or fierce waist pain or abdominal pain, it is possibly caused by cyst infection accompanied with cyst bleeding or cyst fracture. In this condition, the patient should go to hospital in time so as to avoid delaying the disease and aggravating renal failure.
3. Tapping therapy of renal cyst.
This is a general treatment in recent years. The mechanism is to eliminate or alleviate oppression of the cysts to the renal tissues by tapping the cysts, so that renal blood flow volume can be recovered and renal function can be improved and protected.
4. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital
Traditional Chinese medicine has good effect in treating chronic renal failure. Especially for those who are at the early stage, traditional Chinese medicine can obviously improve the clinical symptoms and control the developing of the disease as well as lower the creatinine and BUN level. Many years’ clinical practice has proved that Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital has great effect in treating polycystic kidney disease.
5. Home nursing care.
PKD renal failure is a chronic progressing disease which can be aggravated by factors like mood fluctuation, overtiredness, intemperance of taking food or trauma. Therefore, the patient should keep a good state of mind and build up their confidence to fight against the disease.

Saturday 15 October 2011

How to Early Detect Renal Cyst?

Want to know how to early detect Renal Cyst? First you ought to know what symptoms Renal Cyst has. Generally, patients realized the disease by ache. Patients begin to present with hematoma as the disease gets worse. Of course the patient acuity can only be confirmed after detailed examination.
In the early stage, the renal cysts is small and have less pressure upon renal parenchyma, which have little effect on renal function too, so most Renal Cyst patients have no symptoms. How can early detect Renal Cyst? With the growing of renal cyst, patients usually felt pain in back and waist several years or tens of years ago. Some patients may get more serious symptoms resulting from the increasing pressure of cyst and internal pressure, infection etc. As the disease progresses, these are the common symptoms as follows:
1. Discomfort or pain in back and abdomen: it is caused by enlargement and dilatation of kidney, which exaggerates the renal capsule tension, implicates renal pedicle, or presses nearby organs. Besides, polycystic kidney will get the kidney heavier and strained with water content, which leads to lumbago as well. Feature of the pain is: dull pain, fixed in one side or both sides, radiate towards under part and small of the back. Capsuloganglionic hemorrhage or secondary infection will lead to drastic aggravation of pain. And consolidated stone or urinary tract obstruction by coagula may lead to renal colic.
2. Symptom of Renal Cyst hematuria: appears as Microscopic Hematuria and Gross Hematuria. Periodical attack, accompanied by aggravated lumbago, and hematuria aggravating after strenuous exercise, trauma or infection. Cause of hemorrhage: as there are lots of arteries below cyst wall, pressure increase or concurrent infection will lead to cyst wall vessel bleeding caused by over-pulling.
3. Fluxion abdominal: sometimes the main pathogeny of patients, of which 60% to 80% have palpable swollen kidney. Generally speaking, the bigger the kidney is, the worse the renal function gets.
4. Symptom of Renal Cyst Renal Proteinuria: not much in volume, less than 2 grams within 24 hours. It has low possibility of turning into Nephritic Syndrome.
5. Symptoms of Renal Cyst Hypertension: cyst oppresses kidney, which leads to renal ischemia, brings more reninoma, and hypertension. 50 patients are suffering from hypertension when in normal circumstances; and incidence of hypertension gets higher when renal functions decrease.
6. Renal insufficiency: due to cyst occupying and oppressing, normal renal tissues get dramatically decreased, renal function gets progressive lose, and then comes the symptoms of Renal Insufficiency or Uremia.
Expert of the kidney disease hospital pointed out that, as in the early stage of Renal Cyst, there are no apparent symptoms, and then many people took no notice of its side effect. Besides, it’s not suitable for operation or puncture when cyst is small, western medicine doctors may suggest routine observation, resulting in the development of a number of Renal Cysts to the point of difficult to treat. In fact, it is effective for early Renal Cysts to have Chinese medicine controlling and cyst reduction treatment. Only early treatment can we prevent the hazards in renal function damage.
As the problem of ‘how to early detect Renal Cyst is better. Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, after years of study, raised the high-tech treatment combination of micronized traditional Chinese medicine, immunoadsorption & blood purification, and stem cell transplantation & intervention, which created a new chance of curing kidney disease. The combined action of the three characteristic technologies featured the five healing powers of kidney disease treatment: blocking-up, adsorption, purification, restoration, and rebuilding. And the combination of Traditional Chinese and Western medicine ensured the timeliness and effectiveness of our treatment; the combination of the four technologies ensured the execution of stereotactic treatment: multi-azimuth, multi-channel, multi-pathway, multi-target spot, and multi-system.

How to Better Prevent Nephrotic Syndrome?

Nephrotic syndrome is a group of symptoms including protein in the urine (more than 3.5 grams per day), low blood protein levels, high cholesterol levels, high triglyceride levels, and swelling.
Nephrotic Syndrome Causes
Nephrotic syndrome is caused by various disorders that damage the kidneys, particularly the basement membrane of the glomerulus. This immediately causes abnormal excretion of protein in the urine.
The most common cause in children is minimal change disease, while membranous glomerulonephritis is the most common cause in adults.
This condition can also occur as a result of infection (such as strep throat, hepatitis, or mononucleosis), use of certain drugs, cancer, genetic disorders, immune disorders, or diseases that affect multiple body systems including diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple myeloma, and amyloidosis.
It can accompany kidney disorders such as glomerulonephritis, focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis, and mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis.
Nephrotic syndrome can affect all age groups. In children, it is most common from age 2 to 6. This disorder occurs slightly more often in males than females.
How to better Prevent Nephrotic Syndrome? Here are several key points as follows.
1. Treat kinds of infectious diseases actively, such as common cold, throat infection, skin infection, intestinal infection, respiratory tract infection, vaginal infection etc, to avoid the inducing of Nephrotic Syndrome.
2. Cold is the important cause of its worsening and relapsing. We must prevent it actively. The medicine Zhenqi Fuzheng Chongji, Banlangeng Chongji, Jade Screen Powder should be taken.
3. For the patients who need Chinese and Western medicine treatment, it is advised to avoid the using of Nephrotoxic medicine, such as Gentamicin, Amikacin, large doses of Fiveleaf Akebia and Alisma Orientale etc.
4. Pay attention to hygiene, decline going to public places or big crowds, minimize the opportunity of contacting with the outside, so as to prevent the infection.
How to Prevent Nephrotic Syndrome is better? How to prevent relapse?
1. Try to cooperate with the doctor, to get the diagnosis as soon as possible. Do renal biopsies if circumstances allow, defined the disease on cell structure level, and then work out the nichetargeting programs.
2. After working out the program, the patient should follow the doctor’s advice strictly. Take the medicine strictly under the guidance, including the dose and period; carry out clinical follow-up routinely, adjust the dose following the advice of doctor. There would be more chances of repeated attack when reduce the dose of Prednisone to 20-25mg/d. Don’t be alarmed, contact the doctor instantly, and adjust the therapeutic schedule according to your condition. This will generally make a remission regaining.
3. To deal with infection actively and cautiously. For a Nephrotic Syndrome patient, large amount of albumin pass off with the urine every day, among which there are important components of our immune defense, such as immune globulin, complement components etc. Meanwhile, the decrease of function of leucocyte and lose of microelements like zinc, will weaken the body resistance towards external pathogenic factors. (End)

Treat Uremia By Immunotherapy

More people know renal failure, But Do they know Uremia ? A lot of people don't know uremia.Uremia is renal failure in fact.Uremia or uraemia (see spelling differences) is a term used to loosely describe the illness accompanying kidney failure (also called renal failure), in particular the nitrogenous waste products associated with the failure of this organ.
In kidney failure, urea and other waste products, which are normally excreted into the urine, are retained in the blood. Early symptoms include anorexia and lethargy, and late symptoms can include decreased mental acuity and coma. Other symptoms include fatigue, nausea, vomiting, cold, bone pain, itch, shortness of breath, and seizures. It is usually diagnosed in kidney dialysis patients when the glomerular filtration rate, a measure of kidney function, is below 50% of normal.
How to treat uremia?Do you know Immunotherapy?
All the people know that a great breakthrough had been achieved for the Immunotherapy treating Neurological disease. Can the Immunotherapy treat Uremia? The Immunotherapy is the maximum one researched by Cellular Engineering and the first adult Immunotherapy applied to clinical treatment. The cause of Serum Creatinine increase is the renal fibrosis. The normal renal units possessed with filtrated function are replaced by the fibrous tissue and lose the detoxification function. The key treatment is to repair the renal inherent cell and activate the residual renal function.
Therefore, if the patient has a certain quantity of urine, it is not suggested to use dialysis only. During the process of dialysis, there may be some side effects occurred for the patient own sakes. In our hospital, we promote Immunotherapy to treat kidney disease vigorously. The Immunotherapy belongs to the regenerated medical technology. Through the processes of isolating, culturing in vitro, targeted inducement, even genetic modification, the Immunotherapy can breed new, normal and younger cells, tissues or organs. At last, through the transplant of cells, tissues and organs, the clinical treatment of disease is realized.
Every system in the human body is interrelated, inter-adjusted. Renal function is regulated by nerve and body fluid. Immunotherapy can differentiate into new nerve cells, restore and improve the regulation to kidneys by renal sympathetic nerves. Besides, Immunotherapy can also produce new vascular endothelial cell (VEC) and excrete myocardial cells etc. through the generation of various active substances to regulate the renal function, and repair and improve the kidneys in general. And, Immunotherapy can also regenerate the cells of other tissue, such as liver cell, myocardial cell etc. It can play a role of improving and restoring brain and heart damage caused by the deposition of water, electrolyte disorder and metabolic wasters.
Immunotherapy research is one of the most challenging and attractive fields in the current biology. The application of Immunotherapy in the fields of life science initiates revolutionary new therapy, providing a new breakthrough for the kidney disease treatment. Therefore, Immunotherapy treating kidney disease is based on the science. Immunotherapy Research becomes a new hotspot in bio-medical field. Since 1990s, the technology of hematopoietic Immunotherapy had developed rapidly, more safer and effective, becoming the important way to cure various benign or malignant Hemopathy and hereditary disease.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011

What Cause Renal Failure

Renal Failure is a common kidney disease, It must be treated in time.Or kidney patient must dialysis for his kidney.so If you have Renal Failure,you must be treated in time.  But What Cause Renal Failure?  The causes are as following:  1. Hypovolemia: serious loss of blood volume may lead to Renal Failure.  2. Abnormal blood circulation:  Abnormal circulation may lead to obstruction of renal artery or vein, thus causing ischemia state, then aggravate injury on kidneys;  3. Drug abuse:  Due to kidneys are the main organ for eliminating toxins, most drugs will do harm to kidneys. For example, some patients with kidney disease take large amounts of diuretics which will cause the excessive loss of water, which may lead to Acute Renal Failure.  Comparing with Acute Renal Failure, causes of Chronic Renal Failure are complicated.  1. Common disease:  There are two kinds of disease may lead to Renal Failure. On one hand, kidney disease may develop into Renal Failure. Chronic glomerulonephritis is one of the common cause and including IgA Nephropathy, Mesangial Proliferative Glomerulonephritis and focal segmental sclerosing glomerulonephritis, etc. In addition, polycystic kidney disease,  reflux nephropathy, kidney stones and prostate disease can also cause Renal Failure.  On the other hand, other disease can also cause Renal Failure, such as poorly controlled diabetes, Hypertension and so on.  2. Infectious nephropathy:  Chronic Pyelonephritis, nephrotuberculosis, etc. Serious infection may lead to Renal Failure while patients with Renal Failure should also pay attention to avoiding infection.  3. Accumulation of ECM:  Eextracellular matrix (ECM) is not easily to be degraded, so the abundant deposition and of ECM will replace nephrons, thus leading continuous glomerulus sclerosis.  4. Gene factors:  Polycystic Kidney Disease and Alport syndrome are the main kidney disease relating with gene. Patients with family history of kidney disease should treat the disease timely to avoid Renal Failure.  5. Others:  ureteral obstruction,vasculitis, Multiple Myeloma and so on can also cause injury on kidneys, thus leading to the occurrence of Renal Failure.  Though Renal Failure is a serious stage of kidney disease, there still treatments for it. Seeing from the whole world, there are two main ways: kidney transplant and  Immunotherapy   Transplant. Kidney transplant is mature in technology, but it still have some disadvantages, such as long-term medicines for rejection, long-term waiting for suitable donor and so on.  Immunotherapy   is a new technology, so it can not be accept by most people, especially patients whose countries have no this technology. However, with the development of medical science, Immunotherapy   are applied by more and more people nowadays.

What Is the Life Expectancy for Patients With Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD or PCKD, also known as polycystic kidney syndrome) is a cystic genetic disorder of the kidneys.[1] There are two types of PKD: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and the less-common Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD).
Then What Is the Life Expectancy for Patients With Polycystic Kidney Disease?
Actually, lifespan for PKD patients would be quite hard to predict. Because it not only decided by cyst size, but also related with patients’ general condition. As well know, PKD patients would complicate with polycystic liver, polycystic pancreas as well as aneurysma etc. Upper respiratory tract diseases, like cold, cough and asthema, might exacerbate the inflammatory reaction in the body. These inflammatory factors can decrease your immunity and your renal function will get damaged as well. Liver, pancreas are very important organs which can secrete bile and insulin respectively. Once these parts get invaded by cysts, their original function would be disrupted and internal systems will face a disorder. In that case, patients can not expect an longer lifespan.
Traditional treatments for cysts are cyst decortications and tapping. These treatments are surgeries, which remove the fluids with a minimally invasive injury. We have to acknowledge these treatments are effective to remove big cysts in a short time. Whereas, they can do nothing to settle small cysts. Over time, small cysts will enlarge rapidly because they have get less pressure caused by big cysts. In this case, patients have to endure many times operation. As we know these operations are invasive, they are probably to injure renal parenchyma. Herewith, invasive surgery may not benefit patients but exacerbate their condition.
Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease should avoid conflicting exercises, say play boxing, play basketball as well as other sports. They should not bend so frequently when some symptoms appear say, blood urine, high blood pressure, proteinuria etc., because bending can make cysts rupture. At last but not least, patients should take some conservative treatment to shrink their cysts rather than take surgery constantly, clinical experience show that patients take conservative treatment can effectively prevent renal canceration and suffer from less pains.

Polycystic Kidney Natural Treatments

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder that causes fluid-filled cysts to form in the kidneys. Many cysts grow in the kidneys will press the around normal tissues and reduce the renal function. It may cause renal failure in many cases eventually.
Polycystic Kidney Disease is very dangerous because it can not only cause Renal Failure, but also cause liver cysts and especially heart and brain problem which is life threatening. Therefore, treatment for PKD is vitally important in keeping the disease and its symptoms under control and to help prevent kidney failure later. Because patients suffering from polycystic kidney disease display an array of symptoms, various treatments are prescribed by traditional doctors. Over-the-counter pain medications are given for discomfort, hormone avoidance or partial liver removal are used to treat liver cysts, low sodium healthy diets are advised to keep blood pressure under control, and antibiotics are used to treat frequent kidney infections. In serious cases, when patients have very big cysts with the size over 50mm, doctors may suggest liquid pumping, which is a lot of suffering, but the effect will not last long. Because once the bigger cysts are removed, the smaller cysts will have more space to grow. What’s more, the operation will also damage normal tissues and cause renal function decline.
So many patients were told by the doctors that there is no treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease except dialysis and kidney transplant in the end stage renal failure. Many patients are desperate and want to search for natural treatments for polycystic kidney.
China is the birth land of traditional herbal medicine. Many herbs are believed to relieve some of the symptoms of the disease. The herbs include the following: dandelion root, which can help the kidneys excrete waste; cranberry, which has antibiotic properties and helps to acidify urine; celery, which works as a diuretic to decrease uric acid; parsley, which works as a diuretic to decrease uric acid; hydrangea, which cleanses the urinary tract; and uva ursi, which is has germicidal properties that cleanse the urinary tract. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is great improvement of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a kind of external application on the skin of the back where the kidneys are located. Main and collateral channels is an unique system connecting the outside and the inside. It is connected to the skin and the texture of the subcutaneous flesh outside and the organs inside. By applying the medicine to relevant acupuncture points combining with the modern physiotherapies such as ultrasound and medium frequency electrotherapy etc. The medicine can arrive directly at the lesions by physical permeating and main and collateral channels transmission thus achieving the purpose of treating the disease.
Micro-Chinese medicine can expand the blood vessels, improve the microcirculation around the cysts walls and increase the permeability of the cysts walls. Therefore, the cyst liquid can be reabsorbed into the blood and be discharged out of body with blood circulation. With the natural treatments, the cysts will gradually shrink and the pressure on the around tissues will decrease, the state of renal ischemia and anoxia will be improved, so the renal function will be gradually recovered.
With the development of medical science, more treatment methods will be researched to treat Polycystic Kidney Disease, so patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease should never lose heart. Don’t forget keeping in good mood is also natural treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Monday 10 October 2011

Advice for Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy

Advice for Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy
Long-term uncontrolled hypertension is likely to cause Hypertensive Nephropathy. In turn, Hypertensive Nephropathy aggravates hypertension. This forms a vicious circle. Therefore, controlling hypertension is very important for patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy. Here are some pieces of advice for you to control hypertension in daily life.
◇Don’t drink
Drinking accelerates heartbeat, speeds up blood circulation and boosts rise of blood pressure. Therefore, patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should not drink wine.
◇ Follow a low-sodium diet
Study shows that sodium increases blood pressure. As a patient with Hypertensive Nephropathy, you had better follow a low-sodium diet. As is know to all, sodium is abundant in salted foods, such as salt, canned means, salted condiments, pickled vegetables, soy sauce, etc. It is better for you to limit your salt intake to 5 grams per day, including salt in salted foods.
◇ Get up slowly
The minute you wake up from dream in the morning, don’t get up quickly. You had better lie on your back for a while. Meanwhile, you can move your legs, arms and head mildly and then get up slowly. Your blood pressure won’t undergo large fluctuation if you do as is said above.
◇ Wash with warm water
Cold or hot water can stimulate receptors in skins, causing vasoconstriction and then affecting blood pressure. In this case, it is better for you to use warm water when doing some washing. Wash face and brush teeth with water at 30~35 degree centigrade. If having a bath, you had better not take a long time.
◇ Drink a cup of water in the morning
Drink a cup of water after brushing teeth in the morning. This cup of water has many functions, including diluting blood, decreasing denseness of blood, lowering blood pressure, promoting metabolism and washing gastrointestinal tract.
◇ Do proper exercise
Study shows that proper exercise can help to lower blood pressure. You can do some exercise like walking, Taiji and other non-strenuous exercises.
◇ Have a good rest
Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy trend to feel fatigue, so a good rest is very important. You had better go to bed early and not watch TV for a long time before going to bed. If possible, you had better take a nap at noon, lasting half an hour to an hour.
◇ Keep a good mood
As we know, our mood is associated with blood circulation. Patients with Hypertensive Nephropathy should avoid fluctuation of mood. Excitation, anger, sadness and other moods all can cause rise of blood pressure. Therefore, keeping a good mood in daily life is of great importance.
Well control of hypertension plays an important role in treating Hypertensive Nephropathy. All above are some tips of controlling hypertension.

Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease

Polycystic kidney disease is a kidney disorder passed down through families in which multiple cysts form on the kidneys, causing them to become enlarged.And it is a type of kidney disease. It also known as polycystic kidney syndrome, and It is a cystic genetic disorder of the kidneys.[1] There are two types of PKD: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) and the less-common Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD).
And how to Prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease
The individual differences is obvious for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease. The prognosis is closely related to the course of disease and whether there is serious complications. The prognosis is worse for patients with more complications and progressing Uremia. Some patients have Renal Insufficiency, but there is no complication and the progressing of the disease is slow, the prognosis will be better. Therefore, the treatment for complications becomes the key point that influence the prognosis.
The controllable factors that influence the prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease are hypertension, times of pregnancy, secondary UTI and the frequency of UTI. If there is no dialysis or kidney transplant, patients with PKD can only live for 10 years after the symptoms appear. The serum creatinine will double every 3 years. For patients on dialysis and kidney transplant, the prognosis is similar to patients with other kind of kidney disease.
In order to improve the prognosis and prolong the life of the patients, the choice of treatment is very important.
In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, we mainly use combined therapy of both Chinese medicine and western medicine to treat PKD. That is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It acts directly on the progressing of renal fibrosis and stop the development of the disease. After entering the human body, the active material of micro-Chinese medicine can expand the blood vessels, anti inflammation, anti coagulation and degrade the extra cellular matrix so as to improve the blood supply in all the organs, eliminate inflammatory reaction and restrain formation. It will block the renal fibrosis dimensionally, promote reversal of phenotype of kidney intrinsic cells and provide necessary nutrition for the repair of intrinsic cells.
There are some other points to pay attention to for better prognosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease.
1. For patients with hypertension or edema, give low salt or no salt diet.
2. The protein intake should be provided according to ordinary needs, that is 0.8~1.0g/kg every day for adults. Choose high quality protein such as eggs, milk and meat so as to avoid edema and anemia.
3. Take more food rich in vitamin A, B2 and C.
4. Water intake needs no limitation. Orange juice, water melon juice and vegetable juice can be taken for dieresis and removing edema.

Why People Got IgA Nephropathy and the Treatment

Why People Got IgA Nephropathy and the Treatment
IgA Nephropathy is a type of kidney disease. Now More and more people have get it.IgA nephropathy also known as berger's disease, a look at what it is, causes, incidence and risk factors. And it is a kidney disorder that occurs when IgA-a protein that helps the body fight infections-settles in the kidneys.
IgA Nephropathy is a kind of immune disease with mucosal damage. The reason why people got the disease is that there was a time when you have loss of immunity and the germs and viruses would invade the body leading to infection in upper tract or gastrointestinal tract. This will make the IgA of abnormal structure have antigenicity and stimulate the body to produce corresponding antibodies thus forming complex of antigen and antibodies. These complex are highly compatible to the binding protein and acceptors of glomerular mesangial cells and the combination of the two will induce the proliferation, multiplication and activation of the mesangial cells and secrete inflammatory factors and activated compliments, which will lead the renal ischemia and anoxia thus causing inflammatory damage to the glomerular mesangial cells.
It is not a fear of getting IgA Nephropathy. As long as we find corresponding treatment methods can we get rid of the disease. Line of Treatment for IgA Nephropathy
Using adrenocortical hormone(prednisone) on alternate days is helpful for patients with urine protein 1g/d. Prednisone can also reduce proteinuria for patients with minimal change disease of IgA deposition. Combined use of cyclophosphamide, persantin and warfarin can reduce the urine protein, but it has no effect on Glomerular Filtration Rate(GFR).
The immunosuppressive agents in western medicine have good effect in anti inflammation and restraining abnormal immune reaction. However, the pathological process of the kidneys is complex. Inflammation is only one circle of it. Only anti inflammation cannot solve the problem completely. What’s more, restraining the immune reaction can only stop the production of more IgA or other deposition, but has no effect on the deposited immune complex. Long time use of immunosuppressive agents has many serious side effects.
But what are Micro-chinese Medicine? Treatment for IgA Nephropathy With Blood Urine
The expert group of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital has put forward ‘Each disease has its medicine and each medicine has its effect’ in the symposium of Chinese medical treatment of Nephropathy and Uraemia which was organized by Chinese Medical Society. And has put forward the authority idea and method of treating kidney disease-- the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
Its four remarkable characteristics of new treatment method, quick effect, lasting efficacy as well as low cost created innumerable impressive medical miracles which raised unprecedented sensation in the domestic medical field and caused high attention of the colleagues at home and abroad as well as the innumerable patients.
The Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has remarkable characteristics which are as the followings:
1.The efficacy of the medicine is enhanced.
2.Having high pertinence of treatment.
3.The biological active of the medicine is strengthened.
4. The repair of the kidney is strengthened.
Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital use different methods to treat IgA Nephropathy. The traditional treatment is only aimed at removing the hematuria, but our treatment is aimed at the root cause of hematuria. That is focusing on the repair of glomerular basement membrane. It is combined therapy of both Chinese medicine and western medicine with Chinese medicine as the core. We use Chinese medicine to expand the blood vessels, anti inflammation, anti coagulation and degrade harmful materials. The treatment of Chinese medicine adopts new combination to improve the effect of Chinese medicine and western medicine and developed hospital preparations. Among which the most advanced treatment is Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy for blocking renal fibrosis.

A Brief Introduction of Purpura Nephritis

Purpura Nephritis is a common complication of purpura. Survey shows that about one third of patients with purpura develop Purpura Nephritis. In most cases, it occurs 4 weeks after occurrence of skin purpura. In order to help patients get to know this disease well, a brief introduction of Purpura Nephritis is presented here.
Signs and symptoms of Purpura Nephritis
◇ Hematuria, especially gross hematuria has a high incidence.
◇ Proteinuria refers to the condition in which people have protein in urine. The amount of protein in urine is various. Some patients with Purpura Nephritis have little, while others have much, even to the degree of Nephrotic Syndrome (over 3.5 grams per day).
◇ Swelling occurs due to leakage of protein and retention of water.
◇ Hypertension is caused by kidney problem and in turn it can further damage the kidneys, aggravating Purpura Nephritis.
◇ Impaired kidney function occurs if Purpura Nephritis is not treated properly and timely. When it happens, Purpura Nephritis is not easy to treat and have high risk of developing into renal failure.
Treatment of Purpura Nephritis
◇ Look for and remove allergen of purpura
This step is of great importance for treating Purpura Nephritis and preventing its relapse in the future.
◇ Steroids
Steroids have a good effect in relieving joint pain, gastrointestinal tract problem caused by purpura, but they have little effect in treating Purpura Nephritis. Even so, when patients have much protein in urine, steroids still are used.
◇ Chinese Herb Medicine
Chinese herb medicine, or rather Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has good curative effect in treating Purpura Nephritis. The pathological change of Purpura Nephritis is deposition of IgA and immune complex in mesangial area, resulting in ischemia and anoxia of kidneys. Chinese herb medicine treats Purpura Nephritis by clearing up such deposition and improving blood circulation in kidneys. In this case, it treats this disease from root cause and therefore achieves good effects.
Prognosis of Purpura Nephritis
Prognosis of Purpura Nephritis is associated with many factors, including patient’s age, pathological type, severity and break out of skin purpura.
Usually, Purpura Nephritis in children has good prognosis; People with following pathological types have bad prognosis: sclerosis of glomerulus, fibrosis of renal interstitials and atrophy of renal tubules; prognosis is bad when a patient has frequent break out of skin purpura.

Saturday 8 October 2011

Treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) with Immunotherapy

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a hereditary disease. That is to say, patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) have a family history of this disease. For most patients with PKD, they know this disease in their childhood and many of them have seen their relatives die of end-stage renal failure. In this case, they feel helpless in life. Is their any way to help them out?
When transfused into the body with impair kidney function,Immunotherapy can go to the lesions directly. There, they produce more Immunotherapy by self renewing and then these cells differentiate into renal intrinsic cells to replace the dead ones. Renal intrinsic cells refer to functional cells in nephrons, tiny filters which are in charge of kidney function. When dead intrinsic cells are replaced by new ones, kidney function is improved.
What’ more, Immunotherapy also offer assistance in stimulating damaged intrinsic cells to self repair.
When the dead renal intrinsic cells are replaced and the damaged ones are repaired, kidney function can be well rebuilt.
Is Immunotherapy suitable for anyone with PKD?
In fact,Immunotherapy is mostly suitable for patients with impaired kidney function. As is known to all, pressure from those big cysts surly causes damage to cells and tissues of the kidneys, resulting in impaired kidney function. And impaired kidney function is the real reason that PKD develops into end-stage renal failure. In western medicine, there is no medication that can treat impaired kidney function.
How does a person with PKD know whether he has impaired kidney function or not?
The way to know one’s kidney function is to test for the Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) or Creatinine Clearance. Normal GFR or Creatinine Clearance signifies an intact kidney function.
How to treat patients with PKD but without impaired kidney function?
For patients without impaired kidney function, cysts are their big trouble. Untreated or poorly treated, cysts will cause impaired kidney function in the future. Then how to treat those cysts? Apart from dietary treatment and antihypertensive medications used to slow down the progression of PKD, there exists a medicine which can stop and even shrink the cysts. This medicine is called Micro-Chinese Osmotherapy.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, similar to Chinese herb medicine, is a natural therapy. Without surgery, it can deal with cysts in the kidneys. How dose it work then?
It works on enlarging blood vessels, speeding up blood circulation on cysts walls and restraining secretion of cyst fluid. In this case, small cysts will not grow bigger; and it also works on improving the permeability of the cysts wall. In this case, cyst fluid flows out of the cysts and thereby big cysts shrink. Meanwhile, pressure from cysts will be relieved, and the kidneys will not be further damaged. What’s more, some ingredients in Micro-Chinese medicine help to lower urea and hypertension, cure anemia and edema.
Conclusion
Although treating Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) with Immunotherapy is a relatively new way to help patients with PKD to get rid of sufferings from PKD, it has brought hope for their life. Till now, many clinical practices have shown Immunotherapy is effective in treating PKD. The writer hopes that more and more patients can be helped by this therapy in the future.

How Do Hypertensive Nephropathy Patients Eat

How Do Hypertensive Nephropathy Patients Eat
Hypertensive Nephropathy patients not only need to receive standard and reasonable treatment, but also need to pay attention to diet principle. How do Hypertensive Nephropathy patients eat? Now we will explain it in detail.
1. Controlling calorie supply
The quantity of heat should depend on patients' condition. Because Hypertensive Nephropathy patients often have lipid metabolism disorders, reducing intake of fat can not only help to control heat but also improve metabolic disorders.
2. Low-salt and high-Vitamin Diet
Hypertensive Nephropathy patients should control intake of salt and should not eat salty food. Also they should eat less of food containing antiseptic. They should ensure plenty of vitamin intake, especially Vitamine B which can help regulate metabolism within body. If necessary, patients can take vitamin supplements.
3. Drinking tea properly
Tea polyphenols is important for fat metabolism of human body, which can clear away heat and toxic material and soften blood vessels.
4. Protein is essential nutrients for human body. But intake of too much protein will increase patients' kidney burden and the kidney damage will aggravate. Insufficient protein intake will affect the body's nutrition supply. So intake of protein should depend on kidney condition: If renal damage is not obvious, intake of protein should be about 50 gram each day. If serum creatinine, urea nitrogen occur, intake of protein should be reduced to 20-40 gram each day.
5. Restricting salt intake
Intake of salt should be reduced to less than 6 g/day gradually. Reducing salt intake properly will help lower blood pressure and reduce the body's sodium and water retention.
So Hypertensive Nephropathy patients should analyse their diet under the doctor's guidance first. Then they should change their bad eating habits and restrict some food, which can enhance the quality of their life.
Any other questions about diet of Hypertensive Nephropathy patients.

Side Effects of Corticosteroids in Nephrotic Syndrome

Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex. Corticosteroids are involved in a wide range of physiologic systems such as stress response, immune response and regulation of inflammation, carbohydrate metabolism, protein catabolism, blood electrolyte levels, and behavior.
Many diabetic patient need it.
But Do you Know Side Effects of Corticosteroids in Nephrotic Syndrome?
Corticosteroids are frequently used in treating Nephrotic Syndrome. This treatment are often called hormonotherapy. Objectively speaking, hormonotherapy is effect in treating symptoms of Nephrotic Syndrome. However, there are many side effects of Corticosteroids, especially long-term receiving this therapy. The following passages nearly generalize all major side effects.
Infection
Corticosteroids can effectively suppress the immune system, so long-term use will decrease patients’ immunity. Under such condition, patients are easy to be infected by bacteria, tubercle bacillus, fungus, virus or others. When patients develop infection, their inflammatory reaction is usually atypical. Missed diagnosis often happens. Besides, infection is difficult to control and easy to diffuse. Among these infections, hematogenous dissemination tuberculosis and Gut infection caused by fungus are most severe. They may cause life-threatening danger.
High blood pressure and swelling
This is related with retention of water and sodium, caused by corticosteroids. When using corticosteroids, patients should be monitored closely. If needed, diuretics and medicine of lowering blood pressure should be given.
Ulcer
Corticosteroids can promote gastric acid and pepsase secreting. And therefore too much gastric acid and pepsase induce ulcer and even ulcer with hemorrhage and perforation. Hence, people with ulcer should be careful when using Corticosteroids.
Osteoporosis
Corticosteroids can restrain osteoblast activity, calcium absorption of intestines and osteosis, as well as promoting Bone absorption, resulting in Osteoporosis. Therefore, it is better to take Vitamin D and calcium tablet for patients receiving long-term hormonotherapy, especially the elderly patients.
Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head
Hormonotherapy, especially therapy with large amount of corticosteroids can cause obstruction of bone microcirculation, leading to Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head. If patients have uncomfortable feeling or pain, they are suggested to do Femoral head X-ray or Magnatic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Electrolyte disturbance
Corticosteroids can promote excretion of potassium, resulting in hypokalemia.
Glycosuria
Corticosteroids can restrain insulin of using glucose and promote neoglycogenesis, leading to increase of glucose in blood and thereby causing Glycosuria.
Hyperlipidaemia
Long-term hormonotherapy causes Hyperlipidaemia, promoting atherosclerosis.
Poor Wound Healing
It is related with the fact that corticosteroids can restrain protein synthesis, promote proteolysis and restrain mechanocyte of its functions.
Mental state
Patients using corticosteroids may have abnormal mental state. Excessive excitability and insomnia may occur.
Physical shape
Fat face and body, limb muscle atrophy and wrinkled skin are the most common physical changes occurring among patients receiving hormonotherapy.
In conclusion, patients should be careful when receiving hormonotherapy. Don’t use corticosteroids randomly. Consult the doctor before taking action.
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Wednesday 5 October 2011

Neglectful Tips about Kidney Cyst

Neglectful Tips about Kidney Cyst?
When people are diagnosed as Kidney Cyst instead of Polycystic Kidney Disease, they will have a deep breath with relief for they think there would be nothing wrong with their kidneys. Compared with Polycystic Kidney Disease, Kidney cyst indeed usually causes no severe damages to kidneys as well as renal functions. However, as the epithelial cells of cysts own great power of growing, they might develop into cancerous cells under stimulation outside, such as unreasonable dietary regimen, although the risk is much less. What’s worse, it is possible for doctors to mistaken the cancerous cysts as benign kidney cysts. Thus there is something neglectful or tips people with Kidney Cyst should be pay a close attention to.
Quit smoking and alcohol
Smoking has nothing useful but damaging the health of human beings. Besides harming lung, Nicotine in tobacco will cause vasoconstriction and arteriosclerosis, reducing the amount of blood in viscera including kidney. Less blood and slow blood flow indirectly worsen the obstruction of renal tubules and promote the growth of cysts. Smoking people are usually troubled with unstable blood pressure, which is the main cause of severe symptoms of patients with Renal Cyst, such as vomiting and nausea.
Long standing alcoholism will elevate blood pressure and cause hydropenia in cells for alcohol is able to unite free water in those cells. What’s worse, alcohol can activate protein of cysts and increase the fluid in those cysts. Although commonly kidney cysts will not cause more creatinine in blood, alcohol can promote Rhabdomyolysis and elevate blood creatinine. In addition, people of alcoholism will show anemia, high blood lipid, frequent urination and other causes or symptoms of damaged renal functions.
Receiving the regular checkups
If you are just diagnosed with Renal Cyst, it would be better for you to continue the regular checkups. If the cysts are too small to distinguish the benign cysts from the cancerous cysts, the potential danger undermine your health. Moreover, the checkups must be thorough and adopted B ultrasound and CT. B ultrasound fails in making out the nature of the cysts. With CT, the benign Renal Cyst usually has one cavity with smooth wall as well as clear fluid inside. If the cysts show irregular shapes and the uneven wall with burrs, they are probably cancerous cysts. In order to prevent metastasizing, doctors tend to suggest the patients receive radical nephrectomy. Even if the cysts are not cancerous, the regular checkups can find the growth of the cysts, which is useful to consider adopting early treatments and avoid severe symptoms.
According to the perspective of Chinese medical science, any treatment is much more important in enhancing immunity than in treating diseases. Thus, Kidney Cyst should be closely watched, avoiding its deterioration or cancerization.

Chinese Medicine Treats Lupus Nephritis

Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed inChina and look back on a tradition of more than 2000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage therapy, and dietary therapy. These practices are a common part of medical care throughout East Asia, but are consideredalternative medicine in the western world.
Lupus Nephritis refers to one of the most common complications of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), characterized by kidney inflammation. Given the kidney inflammation may progress to kidney damage or even Kidney Failure, Lupus Nephritis should be treated timely. Chinese Medicine is always ready to help treat Lupus Nephritis with its strong ability to treat various stubborn diseases.
What is Chinese Medicine?
Here, Chinese Medicine treatment refers to herbal medicine treatment, which mainly includes two types: orally used herbal medicine treatment (traditional Chinese herbal medicine treatment)and externally used medicine treatment (Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy).
The Key to Treat Lupus Nephritis:
It is the Lupus that causes kidney inflammation, so the key to treat Lupus Nephritis is to control the activity of Lupus.
Besides, the immune complex should be eliminated from the endothelial cells of glomeruli, which will not damage the kidneys further.
How Does Chinese Medicine Treat Lupus Nephritis?
Herbal medicines can help improve autoimmune system, which will help restrain the activity of the lupus.
After the effective medicines are permeated into the kidney lesion, the inflammatory cells will be prevented to infiltrate the normal kidney cells further. And then normal kidney units will be protected.
By dilating blood vessels, micro-medicine can help lessen kidney burden, which will help patients get rid of kidney damage and Kidney Failure.
In conclusion, patients with Lupus Nephritis should receive treatment actively in case of the lupus's further damage to kidneys, skin and other parts of body. Many patients with Lupus Nephritis have benefited from Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. I hope this therapy can help more and more patients.
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Diabetics with Nephropathy should Start Dialysis Early

Usually, Patients with diabetic nephropathy are recommended to start dialysis earlier than others with Renal Failure. This is because the process from diabetic nephropathy to Renal Failure is rapid, especially for diabetic patients with high blood pressure.
Blood vessels related disease, one kind complication of diabetes, occurs with high incidence rate. Once GFR is less than 15ml/min/1.73 m2,high blood pressure will be out of control. In this case, fundus hemorrhage and disease of heart head blood-vessel may probably happen.
Unlike other kidney disease, serum creatinine cannot reflect patients’ real condition. Besides, sodium and water retention, anemia and Systemic poisoning are more serious in the body of diabetic patient than other patients with Renal Failure.
Due to the above reasons, diabetic patient with Renal Failure should start dialysis earlier.
Then when is the early time?
When GFR is 15 to 20ml/min/1.73 m2 and patients have swelling and decrease urine output, dialysis should be started. If a patient well controls his blood pressure and have better nutritional conditions, he could start dialysis when GFR is 10 to 15 ml/min/1.73 m2.
If a patient has refractory dropsy and severe hypertension and malnutrition, he must start much earlier.
For those patients refusing dialysis, they could choose other treatments, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant, for example. These treatments can well treat Renal Failure by rebuilding kidney structures and increasing renal functions.
The core technology of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is to make the effective prescriptions of Chronic Renal Failure superfinely shattered; and than with the help of penetrant and osmosis devices, the medicine is permeated into the kidney lesions. The medicines could block fibrosis of the kidneys by dilating the blood vessels, degrading extra cellular matrixes, anti-inflammation and anticoagulation, and thus improving inside milieu of your body. And then Stem Cell Transplant is applied by transfusion under such clean milieu. Stem cells play an important role in repairing the damaged renal cells and rebuilding the structure of you kidneys, due to stem cells’ ability of self-renewing and differentiating into functional cells of various tissues. Compared with dialysis, this treatment is better in terms of repairing damaged renal cells and rebuilding the functions of your kidneys. However, dialysis only can filtrate metabolic waste and excess water out of the blood.
Whatever you choose, you had better take action early. As is known to all, early treatment often greatly changes the outcomes.
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The Introduction of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy

The Introduction of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy
The expert group of Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital has put forward ‘Each disease has its medicine and each medicine has its effect’ in the symposium of Chinese medical treatment of Nephropathy and Uraemia which was organized by Chinese Medical Society. And has put forward the authority idea and method of treating kidney disease-- the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
Its four remarkable characteristics of new treatment method, quick effect, lasting efficacy as well as low cost created innumerable impressive medical miracles which raised unprecedented sensation in the domestic medical field and caused high attention of the colleagues at home and abroad as well as the innumerable patients.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy breaks the conventions-----get rid of the stale and bring forth the fresh.
In our daily life, if the finger is scratched carelessly, usually we will go to hospital to see a doctor to coat some a*ntiphlogistic and hemostatic medicine, and then after a few days the wound will be heal. Let’s suppose, if we take antiphlogistic and hemostatic medicine by oral instead of giving it directly on the wound, then the healing of the wound will be slow.
Similarly, if the lesions happen to human kidney and we don’t put the medicine directly into interior of the damaged kidney tissues but only by oral or intramuscular injection which enters the kidney by the blood vessels through the blood circulation, then the effective of the medicine will be very little.
It has been a major medical problem which puzzled the traditional Chinese medicine doctors for many years. While western medical treatment is only cure the symptoms, not the disease, it simply eliminate the urine protein and urinary occult blood and do not repair the renal function form the cause of the disease. Therefore, the symptoms repeatedly occur and it made patients in passive treatment and the illness refractory which enter into a vicious circle states.
For many years, dozens of experts are trying to find an effective method to solve the problem, but all efforts have yielded no achievements.
After decades of exploration, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital finally has work out Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy.
Micro-Chinese Medicine processing technology is micronizing the Chinese medicine molecules of micron-sized diameter into one thousandths smaller granules by using powerful ultrasonic cavitations. And then make the effective ingredients of the Chinese medicine overflow fully; therefore it can improve traditional Chinese medicine penetrability so that it can infiltrate into lesion rapidly and change the valence bond structure. Moreover, after the medicine penetrability is improved, ingredients will not roam to other organs by crossing the kidney. The characteristic of traditional Chinese medicine is certain medicine come into certain meridians. The medicine enters into the renal channel will not wander, which is the foundation of the traditional Chinese medicine.Without the micro process of the traditional Chinese medicine, many effective medicine ingredients are devoured by the phagocyte due to the big medicine particle. While the microsized medicine cheat the phagocyte and enter the kidney.
The active ingredients of Chinese Medicine after microsized can smoothly enter the human body and achieve lesions by using various channels. At present, the Micro Penetration is mainly through the following channels into the renal lesion.
It can directly arrive at lesion through the renal skin of waist back under the action of micro osmotic instrument by means of permeability and selective targeted function.
Entering the blood through the waist back or digestive tract with the blood circulation targeted for the renal lesion.
Through the back meridian system, the medicine can be targeted into the human body and settled in the lesion.
The Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy made a breakthrough for the medical profession. Currently, it is an original treatment for the kidney disease and Uraemia, and it explores a new way of thinking for the treatment of other chronic complicated disease.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has a direct action on the renal lesion ----the efficacy will be seen immediately
Under the action of the osmotic instruments, the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy made the local capillary dilated and the circulation of the blood more quickly. It makes the medicine ions with high permeability selectively target the kidney and arrive at kidney lesions directly in one minute. The Micro-Chinese Medicine has high local concentration, high bioavailability and strong osmotic force and avidity, so it can quickly improve the pathological state of the kidney, promote the remedy of damaged nephrons, and achieve the effect of regulating immune function bilaterally with the combination of internal and external therapy.
The function of Micro-Chinese Medicine is unique and will not be affected by digestive tract. The effect is 50~60 times of simply oral medicine and the treatment effect is strong and fast as well as the medicine playing lasting effect.
The Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has remarkable characteristics which are as the followings:
1.The efficacy of the medicine is enhanced.
Due to the medicine microsized, the efficient ingredient will be overflowed and the penetrability of the medicine will be improved. Therefore the ingredient of the medicine will not roam to other organs and the medicine effect will not be wasted. When the medicine enter the kidney its quantity will be highly increased, which is beneficial to fast permeating. Use the same amount of medicine, the effect will be multiplied, which is the reason for high efficacy.
2.Having high pertinence of treatment.
The Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy acts directly on the renal nidus through skin, blood and the meridian system of waist back. It releases out the high efficient Chinese medicine ingredients and has a high medicine concentration in local part as well high bioavailability. It specialized in renal damaged tissue and has the characteristics of targeting to the renal lesion, thoroughly removing the immune complex and the necrotic tissues.
3.The biological active of the medicine is strengthened. The efficacy of microsized medicine is more easily absorbed by the human body and its efficacy is given full play.
Micro-Chinese Medicine made the molecular weight decreased and the solubility increased and the penetrability strengthened with strong penetrability and affinity. Under the action of the osmotic instruments, microsized active medicine can quickly and directly arrive at the renal lesion within one minute.
4. The repair of the kidney is strengthened. It focuses on the damaged glomerulus and not only removes the immune complex and the damaged tissue on the basement membrane, at the same time repair the damaged basement membrane but also activate the immune system of the humane body, accelerate the metabolism and repair and change the internal environment of the human body.
The microsized medicine is refined and activated and with the targeted function. Therefore, the effective medicine ingredients will be quickly absorbed by the human body, which formed the quick effect situation.
1. Short treatment course
The treatment of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is twice a day, and the duration of each treatment is 45 minutes. The characteristic of the treatment is painless, short course and quick effect. Moreover, the patients can treat themselves at home, which can shorten the hospitalization time and save the unnecessary cost.
2. Quick effect in short time.
Normally, initial effect will be show in seven days after receiving the treatment of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. The main manifestations are: relaxed, energetic, no more chilly and even sweat, feeling warm and having better appetite. The amount, color, flavor and turbidity of the urine have been improved.
Lasting effect of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy --- treating the primary and secondary aspects of a disease at the same time.
The humane kidney is like a sieve which selectively filters out the urine from the blood. Whatever the reason or the form causes damage to the sieve net (glomerulus capillary wall) which can lead to the loss of the sieve function, then the substance in big and small size will be leak out together.
The leak of macromolecular substance such as protein, red cell urinary cylinder will cause albuminuria hematuria and tube type urine which will lead to oedema and kidney hypertension. Traditional treatment only aims at preliminary disease that is plugging the eye of sieve.
After the primary disease has been cured, namely, the eye of the sieve is plugged, while glomerulus filtration membrane is not repaired and the urine protein and occult blood still exist and accumulate more and more. When it reaches to a certain amount, it will break the sieve holes and lead to the recurrence of the disease. In order to repair a ‘sieve’, we must first remove the damaging factors that are remove fundamentally the immune complex depositted on the glomerular capillaries, eliminate inflammation and mesangial proliferation so that the glomerulus will be naturally repaired and the original glomerular function will be recovered.
While the Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is utilizing its active substance which can directly aim at the damaged glomerular basement membrane. This kind of treatment can not only remove the immune complex and the damaged tissues which are deposited on the basement membrane but also repair the damaged basement membrane. Only after the treatment, the urine protein and occult blood will gradually decrease and finally disappear.
If we do not focus our treatment on the repair of the glomerulus basement membrane and only eliminate protein, which are only treating superficial symptom. The urine protein can disappear, yet it can also reoccur. To remove the root cause, the key point is to repair the damaged basement membrane which is the only efficient treatment and the unique method that can eliminate the urine protein and occult blood.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy reduce the invalid consumption --- saving time and money
Due to the quick effect of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, the patient need only live in hospital for about twenty days, which saves unnecessary expenses such as hospitalization expenses, treatment and nursing cost. The competent doctor will teach the patient the usage of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, and let the patient master the main points. Therefore, the patient can bring the Micro-Chinese Medicine and the osmotic instrument home and treat by themselves. The medical model of our hospital is ‘Quickly effect can be seen and treating in half month the patient can go home’ and ‘the patients cure their disease by themselves’ is scarcely seen in medical field.

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