Immunotherapy And IgA Nephropathy

How can we treat IgA Nephropathy effectively?

Modern medical science has no an agreed treatment scheme for IgA Nephropathy and the comment on the effect is also different. Therefore, the discussion of the effective intervention measures of immunotherapy for preventing the aggravation of IgA Nephropathy and reducing the occurrence of Uremia has vital significance.

IgA Nephropathy can be completely cured by immunotherapy through restraining immune reaction, eliminating immune complex and regulating immune system. We can achieve this purpose by the following six steps:

Ⅰ. After patients arrive at our hospital, our experts will firstly make a comprehensive and systemic diagnosis of your illness condition, and then make a personalized treatment schedule for you.

Ⅱ. Through cooperating with foreign hospitals around the world, we introduce the newest immunosuppressive drugs with lowest side effects. Moreover, we create the immune blocking methods which can eliminate the abnormal inflammation and cease the intrinsic cell damages rapidly.

Ⅲ. Immune tolerance stage. At present, there is no effective medication which can clear up the immune complex, so we should make the body adaptive to the deposits of kidneys.

Ⅳ. Immune adjustment treatment. Western medicines can not eliminate the immune complex effectively, but we find useful methods in Chinese medicine. Through applying Chinese medicine, we can not only remove the immune complex but also improve the immunity of human body.

Ⅴ. Immune protection stage. During the treatment process, we can find ways to protect the damaged kidney tissues and inherent cell from being impaired again.

Ⅵ. Immune clearance treatment. According the patients’ characteristic, immunoadsorption, plasmapheresis and blood purification are used to help us eliminate the immune complex completely.

Herbal Treatment for IgA Nephritis

What's the meaning of herbal treatment?

Herbal treatment for IgA Nephritis (Berger's disease) means that treating IgA Nephritis with herbs. Herbal treatments refer to a type o alternative medicine that originates for plants and plant extracts. Used to heal illness and disease and to address psychological concerns, herbal treatments have been around for centuries, and were the precursor to modern medicine. Herbal remedies are obtained from a wide variety of natural resources including plant leaves, bark, berries, flowers, and roots. Herbal treatment has a history of more than two thousand years of history and remains a popular alternative throughout China. Moreover, it is growing in popularity all over the world.

How to treat IgA Nephritis (Berger's disease) with herbal remedy?

IgA Nephritis is featured by deposits of immune complex in the mesangial area of kidneys. The renal tissues and inherent cells are damaged. Over time, the kidney function can be impaired gradually by increasing immune complex deposition. At present, there is no effective western medical method which can remove them, but nephrologists in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital find a solution in herbal medicine. Experiments show that some herbs are effective in treating IgA Nephritis. What's more, the therapy has been proved to be effective in dealing with kidney disease in clinical.

As we all know, the treatment effects of Chinese medicine are slower than western medications, so our nephrologists create an innovative therapy based on herbal medicines, called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It comes into being through combining traditional herbal treatment with modern medical technology. Under the treatment, further damage can be stopped, the blood circulation and nutrition supply are improved, and the impaired renal tissues and inherent cells can be repaired, so the renal function is improved in a large degree. Besides, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is external applied, so while receiving this treatment, IgA Nephritis patients do not feel any pain or uncomfortable.

Immunotherapy: The Latest Treatment of IgA Nephropathy

In healthy condition, the immune system is a protecting system for our body and the immune cells can eliminate the foreign pathological substance. Hence, our body can keep in a normal and healthy state. However, in some cases, the immune system is initiated improperly. As a result, an antibody called immunoglobulin A (IgA) lodges in glomeruli and affecting their filtering ability gradually. Once the glomeruli are impaired, the patients will present a series of clinical symptoms like proteinuria, hematuria, and high blood pressure and so on. In order to treat IgA Nephropathy radically, it is the key to clearing up the deposited immunoglobulin A and regulating the immune system. The therapeutic mechanism of immunotherapy in the treatment of IgA Nephropathy is as follows:

1. In immunotherapy, blocking immune activation can prevent the immunoglobulin A from lodging in glomeruli further.

2. As the deposited immunoglobulin A is the underlying cause of glomerular inflammation, blood purification technique is applied to clear up the abnormal immunoglobulin A in blood.

3. In the immune regulation of immunotherapy, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can degrade the deposited the immune complexes and discharge them out of body when urinating. Meanwhile, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy also can regulate the immune system and enhances the self-clearance ability of the body.

4. As the immune complexes immunoglobulin A has impaired renal cells, to improve the renal function, it is very important to restore the damaged cells. On one hand, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can dilate blood vessels and increase the oxgen, blood and micronutrients supply to kidneys thus enhancing the self-repairing of the diseased cells. On the other hand, the infusion of stem cells can replace the totally necrotic cells with new ones. Therefore, the renal function will improve enormously and even recover normal.

IgA Nephropathy: Symptoms and Prognosis

Symptoms of IgA Nephropathy

* Gross hematuria: It usually occurs a short time (24~72 hours) later after upper respiratory infection. Sometimes, the persons are also accompanied by mild systemic symptoms like muscle pain, painful urination, low fever ad back pain. The gross hematuria usually occurs frequently and it may convert to microscopic hematuria after a period.

* Microscopic hematuria with or without asymptomatic proteinuria: It is very common among children and adults.

* Proteinuria: It is usually mild and the urine protein is less than 1 gram in 24 hours. However, in a minority of cases, the persons may suffer from massive proteinuria and even Nephrotic Syndrome.

* Rapidly progressive nephritis syndrome: It is rare. The persons usually have persistent gross hematuria, massive of proteinuria. The renal function aggravates in a very short time along with edema and mild or moderate high blood pressure.

* Others: For the patients with typical clinical symptoms, they often experience intense pain in back and abdomen along with kidney stone. In this case, the disease is usually are misdiagnosed as kidney stone, pyelonephritis or acute gastroenteritis.

Prognosis of IgA Nephropathy

The following factors can influence the prognosis of IgA Nephropathy.

* The prognosis of IgA Nephropathy is poorer in male than female. What’s more, the earlier the disease starts, the worse its prognosis will be.

* For the persons with frequent gross hematuria, the prognosis is bad.

* If the persons with IgA Nephropathy develop massive proteinuria or Nephrotic Syndrome, the prognosis is not good.

* If the persons with IgA Nephropathy have a poor control of blood pressure, the prognosis is bad.

* If the pathological change in IgA Nephropathy such as crescent formation, interstitial fibrosis etc, the prognosis is bad.

Life Expectancy of Berger's Disease

If the patients can receive proper treatment as early as possible, the disease will not affect their patients’ life expectancy at all.


In early stage of Berger’s Disease, if the patients’ do not receive effective treatment, it is very likely to lead to a series of complications like high blood pressure, Nephrotic Syndrome and even massive proteinuria. In turn, these complications will certainly accelerate the disease progression. The conventional therapies like medications for high blood pressure, hormone etc can relieve the complications and symptoms of IgA Nephropathy temporarily. However, they only focus their symptoms, but can not treat the diseases from its underlying causes. Therefore, the conventional therapies can not extend the life expectancy of the patients with Berger’s Disease.


Immune dysfunction plays the major role in Berger’s Disease. In some cases, the immune system is activated improperly. When the foreign pathological substances invade into body, the relative antibodies are produced by immune system. However, for immune dysfunction, they can not tell the antigens and the healthy cells and tissues. As a result, a larger amount of antibodies complexes deposit in mesangial cells thus resulting in immune injury to mesangial cells. Once the mesangial cells are damaged, they can not function normally. Therefore, a lot of protein and red blood cells will leak into urine.

As for the treatment of Berger’s Disease, immunotherapy has showed its enormous therapeutic effect. It can suppress the inflammation of kidney, repair the damaged mesangial cells as well as rebuild immune system.

In immunotherapy, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can degrade the immune complexes and extracellular matrixes and make them dissolve in blood. Afterwards, these harmful substances will be excreted in urine. Therefore, it can stop the further damage to kidneys.


As the mesangial cells have been impaired by immune inflammation, to improve renal function, Stem Cell Transplant is intervened to restore them. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells with infinite differentiation and regeneration ability. After the stem cells are cultured, they will be infused into patients’ body through vein. The stem cells can differentiate into new cells to replace the necrotic cells to function.

After the kidneys are restored very well, their function will improve enormously and even recover normal. Therefore, the complications and symptoms relative to Berger’s Disease will disappear afterwards.

Immunotherapy Treatment of Berger's Disease

In Berger’s Disease, the immune system can not work well. When the foreign infection virus, bacteria etc invade into body, their relevant antibodies can not defeat them effectively. As a result, the antigens encounter and bind to antibodies to form immune complexes in blood. The complexes will flow into kidneys in blood circulation and then deposit in mesangial area. These immune complexes attract inflammatory factors ceaselessly, which will cause inflammation in kidneys and impair the mesangial cells thus resulting in the proliferation and hyperplasia of the cells. Moreover, the inflammation can cause the mesangial cells to produce type 1 and type 3 collagen resulting in accumulation of extracellular matrix. As a result, the renal fibrosis is activated and glomeruli ossify gradually.

After the above analysis of the pathogenesis of Berger’s Disease, the treatment of the disease should include clearing up immune complexes, suppressing inflammation, correcting immune dysfunction and restoring mesangial cells.

Immunotherapy is not a signal therapy, but a comprehensive treatment system including the western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.

In immunotherapy, the application of hormone and medicines for autoimmune diseases with low side effects can suppress the inflammation effectively so as to stop further damage to renal tissues.

However, it is not possible for the immune complexes to deposit in kidneys for too long. The application of the modern blood purification not only can clear up the immune complexes in blood, but also can remove other metabolic wastes like creatinine, nitrogen etc.

But the techniques can not eliminate the complexes in kidneys. For this part of immune complexes, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can degrade the immune complexes and make the dissolve in blood. Finally, they will be passed out into urine through circulation.

As for the impaired mesangial cells, Stem Cell Transplant is applied to restore them. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells without developing specialized functions. In right body condition, they can differentiate into new cells to replace the damaged mesangial cells to function.

After the above systemic treatment, the renal function of the patients with Berger’s Disease will have an enormous improvement and avoid developing into Renal Failure totally.

IgA Nephropathy Relapse and Transplanted Kidney

Some researches show that the reoccurence rate of IgA Nephropathy to transplanted kidney varies from 50% to 80% cases. The disease can return even several years or even days. Why is the reoccurence rate so high? Is there alternative treatment to Kidney Transplant?

Causes of IgA Nephropathy reoccurence after Kidney Transplant

IgA Nephropathy is an autoimmune disorder, in which the patients' immune system attacks the healthy tissues and cells.

In normal case, when the foreign pathological stuffs(antigens) invade into body, the relative antibodies are activated by immune system to defeat them. The immune complexes of antigens and antibodies will be discharged out of body through systemic circulation.

However, when immune system is activated improperly, the immune complexes will build up in blood. As there are binding epitopes for the immune complexes, they will flow into kidneys and deposit there. The body mounts an inflammatory response to remove these foreign harmful substances, resulting in damage to glomeruli( filters) in kidneys. Afterwards, a series of symptoms occur such as proteinuria, hematuria etc.

In Kidney Transplant, although the diseased kidney is replaced by a healthy kidney, the patients' immune system is not regulated yet. Therefore, the patients' immune system may attack the transplanted kidney again, triggering the reoccurence of IgA Nephropathy.

Alternative treatment to Kidney Transplant for IgA Nephropathy

Immunotherapy is a new and alternative therapy for IgA Nephropathy other than kidney transplant.

Immunotherapy refers to a therapy that treats disease by suppressing, enhancing or inducing an immune response. It plays the following roles in treating IgA Nephropathy.

① Immunotherapy can remove the immune complexes in blood and kidneys. Hence, it can stop the immune injury to kidney tissues and cells immediately.

② It can regulate patients' immune system and stop excessive production of pathological antibodies. Therefore, it can prevent the formation of immune complexes.

③ It aims at eliminating the symptoms of IgA Nephropathy by restoring the impaired kidney tissues and cells..

Fish Oil and IgA Nephropathy

Fish oil is believed beneficial to alleviate IgA Nephropathy for its rich omega-3.

Omega-3

Omega-3 fish oil provides essential fatty acids that cannot be made by our bodies but must be supplied by our diet. These include linoleic and linolenic acids, which are found in black currant, borage, primrose and flax oils as well as fish, EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), and DHA (docosahexanenoic acid).

Is Omega-3 really useful in IgA Nephropathy?

The strongest piece of evidence that fish oil is useful in the treatment of IgA Nephropathy comes from the Mayo Clinic-initiated study published in the NEJM in 1994 by Donadio et al. Briefly, this study looked at over 100 patients with IgA Nephropathy and persistent proteinuria, randomizing patients to receive either fish oil or an olive-oil placebo. Over a period of two years, only 6% of patients in the fish oil group displayed an increase of 50% or more in the serum creatinine, whereas 33% of those in the placebo-treated group suffered an increase of 50% or more in the serum creatinine. Subsequent long-term follow-up studies seem to support a permanent benefit in the fish-oil group.

Where do you get fish oil?

Fish oil is available at most health food stores, most pharmacies, and even at big box discount supermarkets. Pay attention to the "best before" or the expiry date when you buy it, as fish oil can become rancid. Also, be aware that most fish oil comes from fish that are harvested in fish farms. Some products on the market claim to be from "wild fish". Whichever you buy, you should not buy any product that does not specifically list the amount of EPA and DHA it contains.

Edema in Hands and Feet in IgA Nephropathy

Edema in Hands and Feet is a common symptoms, that is, edema in IgA Nephropathy. Why IgA nephropathy cause edema?


Protein has a specific ability to hold the water and prevents it flowing into tissues. When IgA Nephropathy attacks the kidneys, the renal filters leak much protein in the urine, which leads to proteinuria and edema.

How to deal with the swelling hands or feet caused by IgA Nephropathy?

The key is how to stop protein leakage, because protein is the main natural tool to control the water in your blood.
Chinese herbal medicine helps to repair the damaged kidneys and improve the renal filter ability. Thereby, Chinese herbal medicine alleviates protein in urine naturally. To revive the kidneys is the root way to eliminate the swelling in hands and feet.

Besides, some other useful measure may also alleviate this symptom timely, but momentarily.
● Get off your feet. Standing exacerbates swollen ankles. Sit down in a comfortable chair and relax.
● Massage. Massage your feet and hands, which increases circulation and encourage excess fluids to circulate away from the area.
● Cold compress. Apply ice mass to the swelling area. Ice is a very helpful tool to reduce the swellings. Put the ice in your feet and hands every 10 minutes.

Swelling hands and feet only is not dangerous. However, swelling caused by kidney disease will not only affect the limbs. Where is not in your sight, also will be involved. Swollen limbs or eyes may indicate the swellings in your native organs, such as swollen stomach, lung and intestine etc. This is why some patients feel hard of breath and nausea vomiting in IgA Nephropathy. The native organs swellings will cause more dangerous complications, such as heart failure, emphysema and bleeding in your enterocoelia.

Diabetes: Prepare for your Landon Olympic Travel

Landon Olympic Game 2012 makes landon become the most hottest place to travel this summer. However, if you happen to be a diabetes patient, you may prepare more for your Olympic Travel.

Packing
Pack a list of all medication. Carry a simple first-aid kit. Pack an ample supply of food and drink, providing for any delays and making sure you don’t disrupt your usual diet too much.

Stock up with diabetes drugs and insulin, taking more than you will need. If you are travelling with a partner, make sure they carry half in another case, in the event that one case is lost.

Apply for your EHIC
Apply for an EHIC (European Health Insurance) card and you can receive free cover in some European countries.

A diabetes identity card or piece of jewellery stating that you have diabetes can be a good idea.

Before you leave
Visit the family doctor, and make sure you have any recommended vaccinations.
Apart from leaving yourself open to the risk of disease, without vaccinations many travel insurance policies will be invalidated.

Don't forget your spares
Not only should you take all your normal kit, you also need to take spares. Then you need to consider how best to carry it.
If you’re going in the car, then you’ve got space, by comparison to packing – say – for a flying on a budget airline.
Hope each patients with diabetes can enjoy the Landon Travel.

Connection Between IgA Nephropathy and Low-grade Fever

Is your low-grade fever caused by IgA Nephropathy?


Low-grade fever is not a specific symptom of IgA Nephropathy only. There are several causes which may relates to low-grade fever. Some probable causes of low-grade fever are given below.

● Infection. Fevers often accompany infections and are part of your body’s natural defense against them.

● Physical activity or environmental factors. Body temperature can also be elevated by physical activity and environmental factors, such as high ambient temperature or wearing heavy clothing etc.

● Immunizations. A low-grade fever may also occur following immunizations, during teething.

● Autoimmune disease. If you have persistent fevers, it can be triggered by medical conditions, such as autoimmune disease, cancer etc. And IgA Nephropathy is a kidney disease that is caused by the underlying autoimmune disorder. Thereby, if you suffered chronic low-grade fever, it may caused by your IgA Nephropathy.


How to deal with the low-grade fever in IgA Nephropathy?

● If you have low-grade fever in IgA Nephropathy, you need to take tests firstly and your doctor will help the real cause of the low-grade fever. If the low-grade fever is not caused by medical conditions, you may need no medical innervations.

● If your low-grade fever is caused by IgA Nephropathy, immunotherapy may be necessary. IgA Nephropathy is caused by the immune disorder which releases excessive immunoglobulin A and causes overreacted inflammation. This not only causes kidney damages, but also triggers persistent fever.
Immunotherapy is used to regulate the underlying immune disorder which helps avoid the root cause of low-grade fever.

Can Diet Pills Cause Kidney Disease

Can diet pills cause kidney disease? Yes, some diet pills really causes kidney damages and even some of them develop into kidney failure finally.

Of the overweight and obese patients with kidney disease included in the survey, 50 percent reported that they had attempted to lose weight in the past year. The survey showed that, on average, obese Americans with kidney disease consume protein in amounts that are above the recommended levels prescribed by the National Kidney Foundation for chronic kidney disease patients.

The typical American diet each day includes approximately 1.2g of protein per kilogram of body weight. Patients with CKD are advised to consume 0.6g to 0.75g protein per kilogram of body weight each day and popular high-protein diets may call for up to 1.9g per kilogram of body weight.

Thereby, you are not suggested to take excessive or strong diet pills. If you happen to be a person with kidney disease, you’d better never try it. If you have to, maybe Chinese herbs are a good choice for its side-effects-free function.

Will You Pass IgA Nephropathy to Your Children

Once you are diagnosed with IgA Nephropathy and meantime a mother or father, one of your worry may be: will I pass the disease to my Children?

After many years’ research, the nephrologists don’t find the direct relation of heredity and IgA Nephropathy. But, relatively, if one of your family members has this disease, you seem to have a greater chance to develop such a disease.
The following is currently known by far:

Familial clustering. There appears to be a familial clustering of IgA nephropathy which shows strong family predisposition in about 10% of cases, with this being more common in some specific regions or in families from those regions. In the U.S., these include Kentucky and parts of the Southeast. In other parts of the world, familial clustering of IgAN seems to be more common in Southern France and Italy.

Ethnicity. In addition to the regional-based familial clustering, IgAN is known to be more common in some specific ethnic groups (although it does not necessarily run in families). IgAN is most common in people of Asian ethnicity (oriental), followed by Hispanics and then Caucasians (seems to be relatively more common among the French). It is least common in African Americans. IgAN is also more common in American Indians than it is in whites.

Not familial. Greater than 90% of IgA nephropathy is not familial (in other words, there are no other family members with the disease).

Pediatric IgA Nephropathy Symptoms

Most of the symptoms of Pediatric IgA Nephropathy, or Berger's disease seen in children are similar to those seen in adults, but they are less common or appear in different stages of the disease process.

Hematuria


Gross hematuria can be seen when the patient's urine is smoky or cloudy. The urine is darker than normal because of the red blood cells in the urine.
A strong smell might accompany the dark urine. The hematuria is not constant and occurs only during an active episode of the disease.

Abdominal Pain

Children with Berger's disease often experience bouts of excruciating abdominal pain that can mimic appendicitis. The pain can be in the middle of the abdomen or localize to the right lower quadrant.

Proteinuria

Proteinuria is the presence of large amounts of protein in the urine. The proteinuria is caused by destruction of a part of the kidney.
The kidney usually filters out protein from the urine, but IgA Nephropathy damages the kidney and prevents it from performing this function. Proteinuria sometimes can be evident when a patient notices that his urine is more foamy than normal, due to the presence of protein in the urine.

Flank Pain

Pain in the back or side regions also has been linked to IgA nephropathy.
Pruritis
Pruritis, or itchiness, commonly is seen in patients with IgA nephropathy.
Symptoms of Chronic Renal Failure
Signs of chronic renal failure include edema (swelling in the hands, feet or other parts of the body), high blood pressure, fatigue, headaches, cramps and insomnia.

Fatigue


Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms affecting patients with IgA nephropathy. The fatigue is described as overwhelming and sometimes is associated with a sore throat, headache or slight fever.

Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis and Gluten Free Diet

Like celiac disease, FSGS is an inflammatory disease, enflaming and scarring the glomeruli, or filtering system, of the kidneys. It was also that summer that I discovered that eliminating gluten from my diet put my disease into spontaneous, full remission, an extremely rare occurrence.

I want to share my experience with others so that others can be aware that eating gluten free does not only benefit those with celiac disease.
How did I get so lucky to go from health to serious illness back to health in a short period of time?

My health crashed & burned in the summer of 2009. I didn’t see it coming. I had seemingly sudden and unexplained weight gain caused by edema, hypertension, and high cholesterol. All signs pointed to a kidney problem, so I immediately put myself on a renal diet that happened to be nearly gluten free. A renal biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of FSGS with nephrotic syndrome.

Most people with the disease eventually progressed to End Stage Renal Disease, requiring dialysis and transplant. Stubbornly I refused to accept this was my future and refused to accept that I couldn’t figure out the cause and a solution.

It was during that time of diagnosis, doing research, checking out theories, going for follow-up tests, that my friend found stories of others with kidney disease who had gone into, and stayed in, remission merely by going on a gluten free diet.

Within five weeks, my tests showed that I was in full, spontaneous remission. It’s important to note that I had already been eating mostly gluten free for three months prior to this full commitment and was already showing vast improvement. It’s important to have a long view when giving this diet a try. My nephrologist called my improvement “remarkable” and “fabulous”. We checked again a month later, and I was even more into the healthy range. Six months later at a follow up visit, my numbers showed healthier than many healthy people without kidney disease. My nephrologist envies my blood pressure and cholesterol. Today I am still in full remission, on no medication, and still gluten free.

While a gluten free diet may help virtually all with celiac disease, it may help only some with chronic kidney disease and other medical conditions. It is not widely known, even by nephrologists, and it is not widely studied. Through word-of-mouth, I have been encouraging others with kidney disease to try this very safe diet, and I am aware of two children and two adults with kidney disease who have gone into remission as a result. Others did not see any improvement or saw unexpected improvements such as weight loss, arthritic pain gone, and insomnia cured.

5 Ways to Improve Your Kidney Function

Kidneys are the most important organs to keep you healthy. How to improve your kidney function? Ok, let’s go to find the top 5 ways.


Exercise


Another great tip that doesn’t cost you a thing is exercise. Do I really need to explain why exercise is so important? Probably not, but here is a refresher:
• Reduces the risk of diabetes, and improves blood sugar
• Lowers blood pressure
• Reduces ‘bad’ cholesterol
• Increases ‘good’ cholesterol

Drink enough water each day


Drinking about six to eight glasses of water a day can help improve kidney function in a few ways. The water helps the kidneys perform one of its main functions, which is removing waste. Water helps flush the waste out. Drinking plenty of water also helps reduce the chances of forming painful kidney stones.
Learn how to improve kidney function with cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular health is vital in maintaining and promoting the health of the kidneys. As previously stated, blood circulation is vital for kidney function. With proper cardiovascular health the kidneys are better able to correctly function. Maintaining healthy blood pressure is vital for cardiovascular health. Hypertension should be treated correctly to prevent loss of kidney function.

Chinese herbs


Many Chinese herbs are used to improve kidney functions due to its functions as follows:
Repair the damaged kidney tissues;
Accelerate blood circulation;
Supply with enough oxygen and blood to kidney lesions;
Anti-inflammation; Anticoagulation; Degradation etc.

IgA Nephropathy and Pregnance: Can I Have A Baby With IgA Kidney Disease

IgA Nephropathy is a common Glomerulonephritis which usually attacks some people in young age. What should you prepare for pregnance with IgA Nephropathy?


Factors that decides whether you can get pregnance or not


Many women with IgA Nephropathy have conceived successfully, however, your nephrologists’ recommendation or advice will depend on your individual circumstances. Factors that may be considered are degree of existing renal failure (that is, what your kidney function is, and if it's less than about 70%), the amount of proteinuria you have, whether you have high blood pressure or not, and also some of your biopsy findings (any sign of significant tubulointerstitial involvement). You might be asked to wait until your IgAN is stable, if for example, you are dealing with nephrotic syndrome, or if you are having frequent "flare-ups" involving blood in the urine.

On the other hand, pregnancy should not be automatically excluded on the basis of having IgA Nephropathy. A recent study involving 60 pregnant women with IgA Nephropathy, the conclusion was that "in pregnancy complicated with IgA Nephropathy, if the renal function before pregnancy was satisfactory, an uneventful course of pregnancy could be expected by careful control of the patient, although the incidence of EPH-gestosis was high". EPH-gestosis means essentially the same thing as pre-eclampsia. A satisfactory renal function in this case would mean a serum creatinine somewhere under 200 umol/L (equivalent to 0.20 mmol/L in some countries, or approx. 2.3 mg/dl in the U.S.), and well-controlled hypertension (on drugs that will not harm the fetus).

So, when it comes to pregnancy, no matter what you read here or anywhere else, the bottom line has to be consulting with your nephrologist, and if necessary, whatever other medical specialists are appropriate in your case.

Natural Remedy For Kidney Health: Medicated Bath Treatments

Medicated Bath Treatments one of the treatments used in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, China. Medicated bath is a featured treatment in this hospital. Its therapy is that steam or direct bath will take obvious functions in blood circulation or disease curing by permeation of ingredients from herb extracts. Boiling and heating will make the Traditional Chinese Medicine extracts develop the most functions. According to the Chinese medicine therapy, medicated bath will promote blood circulation and metabolism. As long as the prescription is appropriate, many health aims can be achieved.


In the west, Traditional Chinese Medicine is perhaps most closely associated with massage and acupuncture only. In fact, the major parts of TCM also include herbal medicine, medicated bath, osmotherapy etc.

Besides alleviation on kidney disease, the medicated bath in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital also offers partial slim, smooth skin, weight loss, immunity improvement, lowering high blood pressure, appetite promotion, recovery from fatigue etc.

Many kidney disease patients feel energetic after the medicated bath. Besides the improvement of kidney condition, many patients also get “additional alleviation” and Steiger, a Lupus Nephritis patient from India called her mother excitedly after 6 times of medicated bath for her skin becomes whiter than before. And she owns it to medicated bath. “China is a magic country, like India. “ She said.

Many patients appreciate and shock by the changes caused by medicated bath and they usually recommend their families to try the magic bath at our hospital. And Warin, a lady who comes to China for her husband kidney disease treatment, tried medicated bath and lost about 5KG weight in a month. She was very excited. “this is the most easiest way to make a slim figure.”

“This is God’s medicine.” Said Yasser (click for Yasser’s story), who comes to China for his diabetes and Renal Failure. When he came to China, he walked with the support of walking stick and when he left, the stick is useless for him.
About 200 foreign patients visit our hospital each year. Besides Chinese Osmotherapy, medicated bath is also a magic power that attracts them here.

Natural Remedy of Dialysis for Kidney Failure with 10 Creatinine

Q: My father is a Kidney Failure patients and his creatinine level is 10.Here is his medical report saying:


HIS BLOOD PRESSURE IS ALSO DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.
HB 10.5
TLC 7700
CREATIN 10.9
UREA 228


 He was admitted in LRH Medical C ward for a low Hb and RBC and weakness with weight loss. His skin turned darkish. During investigations, it was found that he has kidneys problem. He was kept on dialysis, blood transfusion and repeated RFTs. In between these tests, the values of urea and creatine lowered a little but after about 48 hours pause of dialysis, the values again raised in his blood.


Is there any alternative treatment for him to stop dialysis with creatinine 10?

A: Your father’s condition is really serious. However, I think there is still hope of stopping dialysis. There is still blood flow in the kidneys and his kidneys have not shrunk much. If we give him medicine and cell treatment, the active material can still arrive at the kidneys and take effect.

I recommend Micro-Chinese medicine and cell therapy. Micro-Chinese medicine osmotherapy is a kind of external application. The Chinese herbal medicine is micronized into one thousandths of its original size. With the action of the microscope, it can arrive directly into the kidneys through skin and channels. The absorption rate and bioactivity of the medicine has been highly improved. It can expand the blood vessels, improve the blood circulation and increase the blood flow in the kidneys. In this way, the self renewal of the damaged cells will be reactivated thus recovering the kidney function.

As long as his kidney function is recovered to over 15%, he can stop dialysis.

Chinese Herbal Remedy For End Stage of Kidney Disease

The natural treatment for ESRD—Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy:

● Micro-Chinese Medicine is abstracted from the Chinese herbs, without any side-effect. This is the oldest traditional medicines in our country, like acupuncture.

● All kidney disease is caused by the renal fibrosis, which means the blood can’t flow in the vessels. Chinese Medicine can dilate blood vessels, increase the blood flow volume in the renal lesion.

● Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is not an operation, without any pain. Chinese Medicine is superfine shattered like powder, they are putted into small bags and heated for 45 minutes, and then we put these small bags on the two sides of kidneys according to the Acupuncture Points. What’s more, this process can be achieved with the help of osmosis device, so Chinese Medicine can get into renal lesion effectively.

● The effective substance can repair the damaged renal cells, and clear the immune complex in the human body. After adopting Chinese Medicine for 3-5 days, the urine color can be changed obviously.

●Chinese Medicine has the function of anti-coagulation, anti-inflammatory,prevent thrombus,degradation.