How to treat proteinuria caused by lupus nephritis
Most patients with lupus nephritis will have proteinuria, which can cause many bad effects to patient’s health condition. And how can proteinuria in patient with lupus nephritis be treated?
What effects can be caused by pruteinuria?
Proteinuria in patient with lupus nephritis often causes many bad effects, and it is usual an important part of nephritic syndrome.
A common result caused by proteinuria is edema, and it can be very severe, which can even make patient feel hard to breath if patient have edema in patient’s lungs.
As patient with lupus nephritis often have massive proteinuria, and protein is an important substance to our immune system, so it can also weak patient’s immunity obviously.
Besides, protein is mcromolecular substance, so the leaking of protein can aggravate patient’s kidney damage obviously if it has not been well controlled.
How to treat proteinuria in patient with lupus nephritis?
In treating proteinuria, diet is an important aspect.
Diet plays an important role in regulating our body health. For patients with kidney disease, they are often recommended to take a low protein diet, but for patients with lupus nephritis, they will may need to increase his protein intake, because they often have protein loss. Besides, reducing salt intake is very important for patient’s health.
On the other hand, medicine is also an important aspect in treating proteinuria.
Medicines like ARB, ACEI are well known for their effect in treating hypertension, but they also have good effect in treating proteinuria. Besides, some other medicines like glucocorticoid, immunosuppressor, are also common medicines in relieving proteinuria.
However, the root cause of proteinuria is patient’s kidney damage, so it is necessary to repair patient’s kidney damage.
Western medicine is good at controlling patient’s symptom and condition, but it do not good repair patient’s kidney damage, which can improve patient’s kidney function. While Chinese medicine is good at this aspect, because it treating disease systematically, and it can improve patient’s self-repairing ability by regulating patient’s overall body function.
In the end, if you have any trouble in dealing with kidney disease, you can contact our online experts, and we are glad to help you.
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