How To Treat Hypoproteinemia In Patient With Lupus Nephritis
For patients with lupus nephritis, their disease often causes them to have nephrotic syndrome, and a common symptom in their body is hypoproteinemia, which means there is the shortage of protein in their blood.
As we know, protein is an important nutrient to our body, so this condition is dangerous for patient’s body health. So, how to treat hypoproteinemia in patient with lupus nephritis?
Why patients with lupus nephritis often have hypoproteinemia?
Lupus nephritis is an autoimmune disease, which is caused by the immune complexes accumulating in patient’s kidney. And when the immune complexes accumulating in patient’s glomerular mesangial area, they will increase the permeability of glomerular filtration membrane, and then the protein in patient’s blood will losing through urine. That is why patients lupus nephritis often have massive proteinuria, and that is also the reason that patients have hypoproteinemia.
How to treat hypoproteinemia in patient with lupus nephritis?
The shortage of protein in blood is dangerous for patient’s body health, so diet regulation is an important aspect in treating hypoproteinemia, and patient will need to increase his protein intake to supply the lost protein according to his own condition.
Besides, the direct cause of hypoproteinemia should be controlled, so it is important to reduce the permeability of glomerular filtration membrane. As a matter of fact, medicines like ACEI, ARB, glucocorticoid, etc, are the most common used medicines in reduce proteinuria. Besides, glucocorticoid, cytotoxic drugs, immunosuppressor, etc, are often used to treat the inflammation caused by immune complexes accumulating in kidney.
In addition, to treat this condition fundamentally, the damaged nephrons should be repaired, so patient’s kidney function can be improved. And Chinese medicine is good at this aspect, because by the systematic regulation of Chinese medicine, patient’s self-repairing ability can be improved, so patient’s kidney function will also be improved, and then protein losing will be reduced.
While these are some basic points about immunosuppressor in patient with lupus nephritis, and if you have any trouble in dealing with lupus nephritis, you can can just leave us a detailed message, and we can provide your the guidance that you need.
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