The Common Therapies In kidney disease
Kidney disease should be treated seriously, because it can threaten our health severely if it has not been well controlled. On the other hand, most kidney diseases are hard to cure. Thereby, it is necessary for patients with kidney disease to know the common therapies in treating renal disease.
Adrenocortical hormone therapy
Adrenocortical hormone therapy is often used in treating kidney disease. This therapy can reduce our body’s reactivity to the harmful stimulation, which can help our body function normally in terrible circumstance. It has the function of anti-inflammation, which can relieve patients’ condition effectively. It also has the function of inhibiting immune reaction, which will not reduce the antibodies in our body, but inhibit the information transfer between the immune cells.
In this therapy, patients should reduce their dose gradually, and patients may need to keep taking this medicine more than half year. If they stop their medicine suddenly, it often causes bad effects.
Immunosuppressive therapy
Immunosuppressive therapy is to get the immunosuppressor which have more selectivity, like the antiserum which can resist lymphocyte and thymic cells. This therapy is often used with hormone and anticoagulant, and this is effective in treating severe and stubborn chronic kidney disease.
Dialysis is often used to patients who are in end stage of kidney failure, which can help patients reduce the creatinine and urea in their blood. This therapy is effective, but it is also harmful to patients. If patients accept dialysis for a long time, their kidney function will also reduce, and they will have a lot od complications in the late stage.
Kidney transplant
In the end stage of kidney disease, patients’ kidneys have been damaged severely, so large amount of wastes and toxic substances will accumulate in the blood. In this time, patients can also choose kidney transplant to keep their life. Nowdays, this technology is relatively high, but patients should control his body’s rejection reaction continuously.
Besides these above, there are many other therapies that can be used in treating kidney disease. Like immunotherapy, which is effective in treating kidney diseases that are caused by autoimmune diseases, and the micro Chinese medicine therapy, which is very helpful in repairing patients’ kidney function, and so on.
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