Kidney disease - Causes and treatment of kidney failure


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nephrotic syndrome

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Question: My 4-year-old son suffered from  nephrotic syndrome   one year ago. This is the seventh time it  relapses . Why does it happen? Is it curable? What to do with it? Please give a way to avoid it. Thank you! Answer: Nephrotic Syndrome is generally caused due to accumulation of massive immune complexes in the glomeruli of the kidneys. One of the characters of Nephrotic Syndrome is frequent relapse. Steroid is used to suppress the body's immune system and quickly relive the symptoms, such as swelling, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia and hyperlipidaemia, but it fails to treat the disease from the root cause. The root cause of Nephrotic Syndrome is the disordered immune system. Though the inflammatory response can be inhibited by the steroid, the immune complexes are still depositing in the kidneys.Chinese medicine  treatment proves to be effective for treating the relapse of the disease. Immunotherapy can not only improve kidney function, but also make the ...
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Diagnosing Fibromyalgia

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The best time to contact your doctor is immediately upon verifying whether you’ve been suffering from chronic muscle pain and overwhelming fatigue that interferes with everyday life. Conditions that exhibit symptoms similar to those of fibromyalgia are HIV, hypothyroidism, Lyme disease, degenerative diseases of the spine, and some cancers. Your doctor can perform a series of tests to rule out these other conditions, such as blood tests, X-rays, and biopsies. According to rules put in place by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2010, fibromyalgia can be diagnosed by determining whether you experience constant pain on the left and right sides of your body, and above and below the waist for at least three consecutive months. This test is also part of diagnosing fibromyalgia per the ACR, and involves placing pressure on areas such as between your shoulder blades, the back of your head, and the front of your neck, outer elbows, upper hips, inner knees, and more. If you...
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So to cure kidney disease?

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its treatment period is long, but in this battle, many patients has this wrong idea. Index reduction is not equal to illness recover Many kidney disease patients don ’ t pay high attention to their illness, usually use hormone to control proteinuria. In the beginning, it is effective, all indexes turn to be better in a short time and even disappears totally. So patients are very happy for their recover. Not a long time later, however, a cold or overtired condition make their illness appears and aggravates, so they use hormone again, while this time, the urine protein doesn ’ t disappear, what worse is that fat, hydrothorax and ascite, even liver function damaged, illness condition aggravates day by day. Experts caution: urine protein is the result of glomerular damage. So urine protein disappears is not equal to illness recover, this is a wrong idea. Just using hormone, have effects in the beginning, but it will repeat in a long term and these medicines have side effects. Th...
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