Can IgA Nephritis be Treated by Western Medicine

Clinically, IGA Nephritis is one of the most common disease in China. At present, the treatment for it is mainly categorized into traditional Chinese medicine method and western medicine method. Numerous patients have used western medicine method. How on earth are the therapeutic effects of western medicine treatment for IgA Nephritis? This question is most concerned by patients. The detailed introduction is as following:
First of all, we will introduce western medicines commonly used for the treatment of IgA Nephritis in clinic. They are mainly divided into the following categories:
1. Immunosuppressant:
Immunosuppressant can profitably control the clinical complications in a short term and make a temporary control for the inflammation response of kidney tissues.
2.Anticoagulation, anti-platelet aggregation drugs:
This kind of medicine can resist the abnormal blood clots in the glomerular and reduce the platelet aggregation so as to slow the formation of blood clots inside the glomerular. It also has certain effect on the anticoagulation and the suppression of blood clots’ composition. These medicines contain dipyridamole, warfarin, LMWH and urokinase.
3. ACEI (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor) and angiotensin receptor antagonist:
These two kinds of medicine can inhibit angiotensin, relieve the hypertension caused by the kidney damage and positively maintain patients’ blood pressure in a certain range in the short term.
4. Glucosidorum Tripterygll Totorum
This medicine is mainly adopted for the patients with IgA Nephropathy who are complicated by proteinuria and hematuria. After the urine protein turn to be negative, this medicine can be stopped. Meanwhile, the Chinese medicine treatment should be prolonged in order to protect and repair the damaged renal tissues. By this, the urine protein can turn to be negative completely and proteinuria won’t relapse, even encountering the inducing factors again.
5. Hormone
Prednisone and methylprednisolone can treat the complications such as proteinuria. The shock therapy of methylprednisolone has a better therapeutic effect on the IgA Nephritis with plenty of proteinuria and rapid deterioration of renal function.
How are the therapeutic effects of western medicine for IgA Nephritis?
Generally speaking, the long-term use of above drugs can bring many side-effects to the patients. In addition, it also influence other organs in the body. There is no doubt that a proper use of hormone can reduce its side-effects, but there are also such situations, like insufficient dosage or too much in the beginning, nonstandard in the process of reducing and so on, in which the impacts of hormone to patients are the damage to illness condition, instead of just being counterproductive.
So, more and more IgA Nephritis patients began to look for traditional Chinese medicine therapy, abandoning the treatment of hormone and western medicine.

The Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy put forward by renal fibrosis theory can block patients’ process of renal fibrosis foundamentaly, repair damaged kidney inherent cells, restrain inflammatory reaction and restore damaged kidney original structure thus to treat the disease scientifically and effectively. This treatment method has been recognized by more and more patients because of its good therapeutic effects. For more information, please Email us at khkpcn@hotmail.com

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