How to Treat IgA Nephropathy And Its Symptoms
IgA nephropathy is a kind of autoimmune disease, patients with immune defect will suffer from abnormal immune reaction. In normal condition, our body can produce some inflammation to fight against those invaders. These inflammations, also known as immune complex in some place, are helpful if their quality is under normal range.
However, when patients have immune defect, their body will produce massive inflammations even though these invaders have been eliminated. There are special epitopes which attacks inflammations in kidneys. In normal cases, kidney can remove these immune complex or inflammation timely through urine.
However, when there are excess inflammation in your body, they can not be removed immediately so they will deposit on mesangial areas over time. Deposition of these inflammation can erode functional cells in mesangial area. Consequently, filtration membrane can be impaired. In this case, many big molecules, like red blood cells and protein, will leak out. That is why patients with IgA Nephropathy can present proteinuria and hematuria. Moreover, this can further aggravate the immune reaction in kidneys and your renal function can further decrease over time.
The crux to treat autoimmune defect disease is to restrain the immune reaction, eliminate immune complex and restore your immune system. Only this gets achieved, your symptoms can disappear naturally. However, western medicines, like predinisone, CTX, and other immunesuppresive drugs can just restrain the immune reaction, but they can not eliminate immune complex produced by your body and they can not restore your immune complex. So when you stop medicine, discomfort is surely to haunt you again and every relapse makes your condition worse and worse.
Before taking treatment, we must understand what caused the disease, what the progression is, only after figuring out these information, proper treatment can be made.
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