How To Treat Hematuria In Patient With Lupus Nephritis

Patient with lupus nephritis can have many obvious symptoms, among which hematuria is very common.

Hematuria in lupus nephritis can be microscopic hematuria, and it can also be gross. As we can imagine, it is scaring if patient has gross hematuria.

Why patient with lupus nephritis has hematuria?

Kidney has the function of filtration, which can excrete the wastes out from patient’s body and keep the useful nutrients in patient’s blood. This function is mainly completed by glomerular filtration membrane, which is a semitransparent thin membrane.

While lupus nephritis is caused by the immune complexes accumulating in patient’s kidney, and that will cause inflammatory reaction in there. These substances can also build up in filtration membrane, while that will increase its permeability, and then red cells in blood will leak out.

How to treat hematuria in patient with lupus nephritis?

To treat hematuria caused by lupus nephritis, the inflammatory reaction in glomerular filtration membrane should be stopped, and the damage should also be repaired.

In treating the inflammatory reaction in kidney, some medicines are often used, like glucocorticoid, cytotoxic drugs and immunosuppressor. And these medicines are effective.

On the other hand, the damage in patient’s nephrons should be repaired, so hematuria can be treated fundamentally, and using Chinese medicine can reach this purpose.

Western medicine is good at controlling patient’s condition, like the effect of hormone medicines in treating inflammation. But if patient want to improve his kidney function by repairing his kidney damage, Chinese medicine will be a good choice, because Chinese medicine treats disease systemically, and that make it have obvious effect in improving patient’s body function by promoting patient’s self-repairing ability.

In the end, if you have any other problem in dealing with lupus nephritis, you can juts leave us a message, and we can provide you related guidance.

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