What are the Symptoms Of Membranous Nephropathy?

　　Membranous nephropathy often occurs to patients that are above their 40s and there are more male patients than female patients. Most patients have typical symptoms of nephrotic syndrome---swelling, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia. Some patients can only have proteinuria.
　　Proteinuria. Daily protein leakage in membranous nephropathy patients has great fluctuation and this may be related with their protein intake, body posture and activity level.
　　Membranous nephropathy is usually dormant and some patients find that they have proteinuria in physical examinations. If the onset is sudden especially in case of renal tubular dysfunction, it is necessary to check weather there is any infections, renal toxicity drugs or toxins.
　　The severity and duration of proteinuria is closely related to the prognosis of membranous nephropathy. Patients with massive proteinuria should limit daily protein intake within 0.8g/kg and at the same time have adequate calory supply.
　　Hematuria. About half membranous nephropathy patients will have microscopic hematuria. However it is not typical sign of MN, therefore it is important to find out the primary causes.
　　High blood pressure. 17%-50% adult patients will have high blood pressure at the onset of the disease. If patients have hypertension or renal dysfunction, the prognosis is poor.
　　The ideal blood pressure for membranous nephropathy patients should be below 125/70. The first drug choice for high blood pressure are ACEI and ARB. Low-salt diets can help relieve water and sodium retention and control high blood pressure.

　　Venous thrombus. Membranous nephropathy patients have 40% higher incidence to develop venous thrombus than other glomerular diseases especially if patients have persistent nephrotic syndrome symptoms. Anti-coagulation is therefore very important.

What causes Muscle Cramps for Nephrotic Syndrome patients?

Nephrotic Syndrome is a kidney problem characterized by lots of protein in urine which can trigger swelling, low protein in blood and high blood lipid. In some cases of Nephrotic Syndrome, patients may also found they are experiencing muscle cramp which affects their life seriously. Here, we will give an introduction about the possible cause for muscle cramp in Nephrotic Syndrome.
　　1. Serious nervous system condition
　　In early stage of Nephrotic Syndrome, no nerve problems are caused. However, with the progression of illness condition, kidney failure will be caused. Kidney failure is an illness condition that may involve all the bod systems, including nerve system. When nerve system is affected seriously, muscle cramp may occur.
　　2. Diuretics
　　Fluid retention is one of the most visible symptom. Excess fluid stay in the space between cells, making patients look fat. In that cases, if no effective treatment is given timely, fluid retention will spread to the whole body and finally pulmonary edema will be caused. Diuretics help our body to discharge excess fluid and they are beneficial for Nephrotic Syndrome patients to remit fluid retention. However, if diuretics are used for a long time, lots of potassium will be discharged out of the body, leading to hypokalemia which can cause muscle cramp directly.
　　3. Low blood volume
　　Low blood volume is another possible cause for muscle cramp in Nephrotic Syndrome. In cases of Nephrotic Syndrome, large amounts of protein are lost from urine, which can cause low blood volume. Besides, Nephrotic Syndrome patients are usually asked to limit fluid intake due to severe fluid retention. Low fluid intake also plays a role in causing low blood volume and causing muscle cramp.
　　4. Dialysis

　　Dialysis is required when Nephrotic Syndrome progresses to kidney failure. And in some cases of Nephrotic Syndrome, muscle cramp may occur as a complication of dialysis.

How to make a good prognosis for IgA Nephropathy patients?

The prognosis of IgA nephropathy is varies from individual to individual, because it is closely related with many factors. Since IgA Nephropathy is changeable, it is very important for us to learn how to make a good prognosis with IgA Nephropathy.
　　In general, IgA Nephropathy is susceptible to the following several factors:
　　1. Symptoms: symptoms of IgA Nephropathy include hematuria (blood urine), proteinuria (protein in urine), high blood pressure and even anemia and so on. Although these symptoms always occur because of decreased kidney function, they in turn worsen kidney condition and accelerate kidney problem. Usually, patients who leave their symptoms alone have a poorer prognosis compared with these who have a good control about their symptoms. Therefore, bringing these symptoms under control is helpful for IgA Nephropathy patients to improve their prognosis.
　　2. Age: relatively speaking, young patients always have a better prognosis than elder IgA Nephropathy patients.
　　3. Diet: A right diet help to slow down the prognosis of IgA Nephropathy, so it means a lot for IgA Nephropathy patients to have an adjustment about their diet on the basis of their illness condition. Usually, IgA Nephropathy patients to have a low-salt diet, low-protein diet, low-fat diet and as well as adequate vitamins. Eat much more vegetables, fruits and high quality protein foods like fish and milk. Also, avoid moldy foods.
　　4. Nursing care: A good nursing is necessary for a good prognosis. Kidney disease relapses easily, and it may reoccur even because of a mild cold. Therefore, it is of great importance to have a good nursing care. Patients need to develop good living habits and avoid staying up, drinking alcohol and smoking. Also, remember to check blood pressure and have physical exercises regularly. All of these will help them improve their physical condition and illness condition.

　　5. Treatment method: in many cases, IgA Nephropathy patients are just prescribed with some oral medications to control their symptoms. It is a must, but it is far from enough for patients to stop the prognosis of IgA Nephropathy. IgA kidney disease progresses because more and more kidney tissues are damaged by inflammation which occurs due to IgA immune complexes in the glomerulus. To avoid further kidney damages, clearing these IgA immune complexes away from the glomerulus is very essential. Besides, IgA immune complexes are formed only when there is abnormal or impaired immune system. Therefore, normalizing patient’s immune system is the key to stop the progression and make a good prognosis for IgA Nephropathy patients.

Can IgA Nephropathy cause Itchy Skin?

Itchy skin is a symptom of IgA nephropathy. Then, how is itchy skin caused by IgA Nephropathy? And what can we do with it?
　　How is itchy skin caused by IgA Nephropathy?
　　Itchy skin is just one of the skin problems for IgA Nephropathy patients. Aside from it, patients also run high risk for yellow skin and dry skin. To be honest, there is no skin problem at all in early stage of IgA Nephropathy and patients begin to experience these terrible symptoms usually when illness condition develops to advanced stage or kidney failure stage.
　　Kidney is a organ that takes charge of excreting toxic substances from the blood. When kidney function is affected due to IgA Nephropathy, these toxic substances will pile up in blood. Skin itching is caused when harmful substances stimulate skin. This is the one of the causes for IgA Nephropathy patients to suffer from skin problem. Actually, apart from it, there are many other factors that can skin problem like overaction of Gley’s glands and high levels of phosphorus in blood and so on. For IgA Nephropathy patients, they may suffer from skin problem due to different factors.
　　What to do with skin problem for IgA Nephropathy patients?
　　Skin problem is bothersome and sometimes, patients have to stay awake all the night as they have to scratch their skin all the time. Since it is terrible to live with itchy skin, it is of great importance for patients to take some measures. For IgA Nephropathy patients, the following measures can be used to remit skin problem:
　　1. Have bath regularly, but remember to avoid having very hot bath.
　　2. Calamine lotion can be used to remit itching feeling, but it only shows temporary effects.
　　3. Avoid high phosphorus foods, as elevated phosphorus level in blood is another causes for IgA Nephropathy patients to experience skin problem.
　　4. Bring blood pressure and blood sugar in normal range, as they can worsen kidney condition and aggravate skin itching.

　　5. Try to improve kidney function. IgA Nephropathy is not curable, but impaired kidney function can be improved to some extent. Funeng therapy can be used to improve kidney condition.

Does Hematuria really mean IgA Nephropathy?

　　Hematuria is the most obvious symptom of IgA Nephropathy and often seen in IgA Nephropathy patients. However, if someone has hematuria, does this mean that people have suffered from IgA nephropathy?
　　Hematuria caused by IgA Nephropathy

If one person is diagnosed with kidney disease, he or she may often have the symptom of hematuria or blood in urine.
　　That is because when you have kidney disease, damages in the glomerular filtration membrane and the red blood cells and other large-molecular substances like protein can pass through the membrane and be released into urine. For this reason, hematuria is caused by your injured kidney function, which we may say hematuria means you have experienced kidney disease.
　　In addition, there are still other causes that lead to hematuria or blood in urine.
　　Other conditions can also cause hematuria, including:
　　1. Bladder infection, also called acute cystitis, which usually causes burning or pain with urination.
　　2. Tumour: renal carcinoma, wilms’ tumour, carcinoma of the bladder, prostate cancer or urethral cancer.
　　3. Vigorous exercise or injury
　　4. Surgery: invasive procedures to the bladder or prostate.
　　5. Haematological: sickle cell disease, coagulation disorders, anticoagulation therapy.
　　6. Toxins: sulphonamides, cyclophosphamide, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

　　From the above, we know that hematuria may be caused by IgA Nephropathy, the injured kidney function. But it does mean all hematuria is caused by kidney disease.

Can Blood in urine be caused by Polycystic Kidney Disease?

IgA Nephropathy is an autoimmune disease marked by deposition (mainly IgA deposition) in mesangial area. Because of these deposition, inflammation occurs and causes damages on surrounding kidney tissues. Since IgA Nephropathy is an immune-related kidney problem, the treatment should start from adjusting immune system and only when the abnormal immune system is normalized, can the problem be solved fundamentally.From the point of view of immunology, IgA Nephropathy is an autoimmune disease. And if we see this disease from another point, it is a glomerular disease. Glomerular filtration membrane has function to filter blood and meanwhile keeps harmful substances like red blood cells in the body. When glomerular filtration membrane is damaged, red blood cells will leak into urine, causing hematuria. Therefore, hematuria is always the dominant symptom for IgA Nephropathy patients.IgA Nephropathy is not a genetic kidney problem, but it does not mean children with parents suffering from IgA Nephropathy will certainly not develop this kidney problem. Children who have parents suffering from IgA Nephropathy may inherit the immunodeficiency from their parents. In theory, children with abnormal immune system and poor immunity are running high risk for IgA kidney disease and they suffer from this kidney problem more easily, so there is possibility for children whose parents are IgA Nephropathy patients to develop this kind of autoimmune disease.

For Kidney Disease: Nine Manifestations You Have to Know?

　　1. Urine volume abnormality
　　The healthy kidneys have the function of keeping a normal urine volume, for adults, the average urine volume is about 1500 ml/24hours. If 24 hours urine volume is less than 400 ml, it is called Oliguria; if it is less than 100 ml, it is called Anuria. The reason of Anuria can be divided into three kinds:
　　The first reason is the insufficiency of Renal Hemoperfusion, which will make glomeruli unable to filter out urine, such as shock, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration and so on. The reason is not because of kidneys but water insufficiency in the blood, this is to say, there is no raw material to produce urine. So long as these problems corrected in time, most of the patients can be recovered completely.
　　The second reason is the problem of urine-making organs, which means there is something wrong with the kidney self, such as: Nephritis, and Acute Kidney Failure. Patients with this condition, they should go to see the doctor to find the pathogenic reason and receive the pertinence treatment according to their different diseases.
　　The third reason is the kidney can produce urine normally and the ureter is blocked, such as: The stone in the ureter or the male Prostate Hypertrophy repressed the urethra and made the urine excrete out normally. For this kind of Oliguria, if the reason can be found timely and treat it correctly, and generally, the kidney function can be protected effectively.
　　On the other side, if the 24 hours urine is always more than 2500 ml, this will be called Polyuria; it is also in abnormal condition. Diabetes is a common example of this.
　　2. Urination abnormality
　　Urination abnormality can be divided into such conditions of urinary frequency, urinary urgency, urodynia, urinary incontinence, urinary stasis, urinary flow abnormality and enuresis, and so on. Urinary Frequency refers to urinate times increased. The difference of Urinary Frequency with Polyuria is that the urinary total volume is not increase. Urinary urgency refers to the people cannot hold their bladder and urge to urinate. Urodynia refers to urinate with pain in the urethral orifice and low abdomen. Because these three symptoms are often existed at the same time, so it called Urinary Irritation. It is also called Urethral Syndrome due to the irritation often presents inflammation or irritation in the bladder and urinary tract (prostate).
　　Urinary incontinence refers to the loss of self-controlling ability to urinate, and the urine naturally flows out from urinary tract. The basic cause is bladder compressing the muscle strips persistently contracting, but the urethra lower esophageal sphincter to block urine outflow cannot be contracting effectively, which is commonly related to urinary system inflammation or nervous lesion, such as contracture bladder and spinal cord tumor.
　　Urinary stasis refers to urine being detained in the bladder and cannot be discharging out of the body. The most reason is because of urinate difficulty. According to the Urinary Stasis degree, it can be divided into partial and complete and according to its onset types it can be divided into acute and chronic. Though the Urinary Stasis and Urinary Tract irritation symptom both are urination difficulty, but they are different. Patient with Urinary Stasis has the feeling of bloating in the lower abdomen, and Ultrasound shows there is large volume of urine in it; and the patients with urinary irritation symptom felt urine difficulty because there is no urine in the bladder. Due to their different symptoms, the prognosis and treatment method are also different.
　　Urination flowing abnormality refers to weak urinary stream when urinating. The urine flowing is slow even interrupted. After finishing urination, there is also urine flowing out. The reason is mainly related to urethra and prostate disease.
　　Enuresis is referring to the children above 3 years old have the unconsciously bedwetting after falling asleep; mostly it is belonging to functionality, but it is also caused by organic cause. So when children have these symptoms, the parents should ask doctor to have a careful examination for them.
　　3. Renal Edema
　　As we all know, kidneys have the function of regulating fluid through reducing and increasing urine. When the kidneys are sick, fluid regulation will have problems. For example, oliguria will lead to fluid accumulating in the body and forming edema, this is renal edema.
　　Renal Edema can be divided into three types according to its severity,: The first type is latent edema. It means edema cannot be found from the patient’s body surface, but their weight increased. The second type is edema can be only seen in flabby tissue, such as eyelid, foot back, it is mild edema. This type edema has a feature of gravity, this is to say, and patients often have swelling in eyelids in the morning and in foot back in the evening. The third type is the swelling can be seen both in body surface and whole body, even involving in pleural cavity and peritoneal (occurring to effusion). It belongs to severe edema.
　　Renal Edema often starts from eyelids and runs through the whole body from top to bottom. So doctors called it Descending Edema. And Cardiac Edema often start from the legs to upper body, so it is called Ascending Edema. Although cirrhosis has the symptom of water-sodium retention, it mainly concentrated in the abdomen with the patient’s arms and legs are thin and malformation. It is easy to understand why in Chinese medicine it is called Simple Abdominal Distention.
　　Arising renal edema there are many reasons, Nephrotic Syndrome is one of typical cases. The feature is large amounts of protein in the blood lost with urine, leading to plasma colloid osmotic pressure decreased. Water cannot be preserved in the vessel and then transferred from vessel inside to vessel outside tissue space, and then leads to edema.
　　4. Renal Hypertension
　　If renal parenchymal and renal vessel, which is supplying nutrition to kidneys, becomes narrow, it may arouse high blood pressure. The reason is because of the kidney its self, so it is called Renal Hypertension. During the hypertensive patients, quit a number of them may be related with their kidney disease. Patients with long time serious hypertension their kidneys must be damaged. So the hypertensive patients should have examination for their kidneys.
　　5. Renal Anemia
　　Anemia is a kind of hematology disease and Chronic Kidney Disease may lead to serious Anemia. This kind of Anemia is Renal Anemia. Kidneys can produce a kind of substance which is called Erythropoietin. Erythropoietin may stimulate bone marrow to produce blood. If the body is short of it, the body may appear anemia. So supplying of Erythropoietin can remarkably improve the Anemia condition of kidneys. To our great joy’s, our China can artificially synthesize Erythropoietin successfully use it for clinical treatment, and thus remarkably improved life quality of Uremic patients.
　　6. Size of Kidneys
　　Kidneys are located in bilateral of abdomen, and the position is at the back and some part is covered by ribs, so in the normal condition, we cannot touch them by hand. If they are intentionally or unintentionally touched the kidneys are morbid. One-side renal enlargement is often seen in Hydronephrosis, Renal Tumor and Renal Cysts; bilateral renal enlargement is often seen in Congenital Polycystic Kidneys, Bilateral Hydronephrosis, Nephrotic Syndrome and Renal Amyloidosis. Abdominal palpation is the simple, basic and common checking method. On this basic, with the help of modern medical technology, such as ultrasound CT scan, cannot only observe kidneys’ size clearly, but also kidneys’ shape.
　　In the stage of kidney enlargement, if patients can get a timely treatment, they may get the precious time for their good prognosis. Kidney size changed smaller size is the presentation of end stage of kidney disease. At this stage, patients can only choose dialysis and kidney transplantation to solve the problem.
　　7. Renal Pain
　　Renal pain contents two conditions: one is felt by oneself, this is belonging to subjective aspects; the other is when patients are doing the body examination, felt pain by compressing or rapping the kidneys, this is belonging to objective aspect.
　　Dull pain: It is a kind of vague pain and it is chronic and exists for a long time. When the doctor is knocking at the kidney region, the pain is more obvious. Dull pain is often seen in some non-infection kidney disease, such as Hydronephrosis, Polycystic Kidney and Renal Tumor.
　　Distending pain: it is a kind of persistent and violent pain, which is often complicating with the obvious renal percussion pain, fever and general symptoms. It is commonly seen in kidney and its surrounding tissues infection disease, such as Acute Pyelonephritis, Nephrapostasis and Perinephric Abscess.
　　Colic pain: This kind of pain commonly caused by pelvis and ureter joint part blocking or urinary tract blocking, especially semi-blocking and complicating with tissue spasms resulting in serious pain. It has the feature of sudden onset and intermittent occurring, often radiating to perineum in inner thighs. Patients show terrible fidgets, profuse sweating and hard to bear without medicine, occasionally complicating hematuria. These symptoms are often the typical presentations of ureteral calculus.
　　Percussion pain or tenderness pain in renal region: This kind of pain is referring to when doctor checks the patients by touching, pressing and rapping the kidney region with hands resulted pain, this kind of pain is often seen in Chronic Inflammation in the kidneys or Perinephric tissues. Some patients who have obvious Idiopathic pain, they needn’t to do these tests or it will increase more pain to patient.
　　8. Renal Osteoarthritis
　　In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is known that kidneys is in charge of bone; and in modern medicine, it is proved that some bone diseases are related with the Chronic Kidney Disease. Particularly after the kidney function failed, it may lead to Hyperphospheremia, Hypocalcemia, and then Hyperparathyroidism. The skeletal system may change due to Acidosis and such factors with a feature of Osteoarticular pain of whole body, especially indicating weight loading bone in the lower part. Hard working and carrying heavy may worsen the symptoms. Skeletal changes could be seen by X-ray. Children may be happened dysgenopathy, short stature and become Renal Rickets. Now in Modern medicine some medicines have been found to resolve these problems and these medicines have really gotten quite good results, and it is pity that the expense is too large to afford by more people.
　　9. Urine color abnormality
　　The urine color usually presents faint yellow. In normal condition, its color may change light or colorless influenced by urine volume, acid-base, food and medicine; when the urine volume is little, its color may change deep color or tea color. For example, when patients take vitamin B 12, the urine color is orange-yellow; take medicine of Rheum Officinale, Furantoin and Furaxone, the urine color will be deep yellow or dark brown, at this condition, the patient needn’t worry about it. Light red colored urine is commonly seen in hematuria, patients should go to see the doctor and do some checking of it. Hematuria means that there are Red Blood Cells in the urine. If the Red Blood Cells are more the urine color may look like the washing meat water and it is called gross hematuria; if the Red Blood Cells are less, and it only can be seen with the help of microscope, it is called Microscopic Hematuria. The Hematuria is come from the fine renal structure (go through glomeruli) it is called Renal Hematuria; Hematuria is come from extrarenal tissue, such as ureter, prostate and bladder, called Extrarenal Hematuria. Renal Hematuria is the manifestation of Internal Medicine Diseases; Extrarenal Hematuria is the manifestation of surgical diseases(such as stones, tumor). Because the treatment and the patient’s prognosis are different the doctor will give a careful identification of them.

　　In the normal condition, there should not be much foam in the urine. If large amount foam continually existed in the urine, it may indicate much protein in the urine. Patient should go to hospital to do urine test, in order to avoid affecting health.

What are the Symptoms of Kidney Failure?

• 　　In the beginning, kidney failure may be asymptomatic (not producing any symptoms). As kidney function decreases, the symptoms are related to the inability to regulate water and electrolyte balances, to clear waste products from the body, and to promote red blood cell production. Lethargy, weakness, shortness of breath, and generalized swelling may occur. Unrecognized or untreated, life-threatening circumstances can develop.
  
  
  　　Metabolic acidosis, or increased acidity of the body due to the inability to manufacture bicarbonate, will alter enzyme and oxygen metabolism, causing organ failure.
  
  
  　　Inability to excrete potassium and rising potassium levels in the serum (hyperkalemia) is associated with fatal heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias) including ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.
  
  
  　　Rising urea levels in the blood (uremia) can affect the function of a variety of organs ranging from the brain (encephalopathy) with alteration of thinking, to inflammation of the heart lining (pericarditis), to decreased muscle function because of low calcium levels (hypocalcemia).
  
  
  　　Generalized weakness may be due to anemia, a decreased red blood cell count, because lower levels of erythropoietin produced by failing kidneys do not adequately stimulate the bone marrow. A decrease in red cells equals a decrease in oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, resulting in decreased oxygen delivery to cells for them to do work; therefore, the body tires quickly. As well, with less oxygen, cells more readily use anaerobic metabolism leading to increased amounts of acid production that cannot be addressed by the already failing kidneys.
  
  
  　　As waste products build in the blood, loss of appetite, lethargy, and fatigue become apparent. This will progress to the point where mental function will decrease and coma may occur.
  
  
  　　Because the kidneys cannot address the rising acid load in the body, breathing becomes more rapid as the lungs try to buffer the acidity by blowing off carbon dioxide. Blood pressure may rise because of the excess fluid, and this fluid can be deposited in the lungs, causing congestive heart failure.

How to Break Away from Dialysis for Patients with ESRF

　　End-Stage Renal Failure(ESRF) was like malignant tumor, short of effective treatment method. Once patients with kidney disease progressed to end-stage renal failure, there was no way to maintain their life. Now, with the development of modern medical technology, dialysis, kidney transplantation, stem cell treatment and integration of Western Medicine treatment and Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment bright light to them. Even, some patients with end-stage renal failure can break away from dialysis after some time treatment. How can them break away from dialysis?


　　1. Early detection, early intervention
　　End-stage renal failure is the final result of kidney disease. Early detection and timely treatment are always the most effective prevention method of end-stage renal failure and also the first choice to break away from dialysis. In China, the occurrence rate of chronic kidney disease is 10.1%-13%, but the awareness rate is only7.9%-8.2%. Most people are due to unaware of their kidney disease to lose the best time for early treatment. Even, once detecting, they have been relying on dialysis or kidney transplantation. In fact, chronic kidney disease can be required early diagnosis and effective treatment. But the key is to know, understand and give sufficient attention to kidney disease. Breaking the start link of kidney disease progressing to end-stage renal failure, patients will be far away from dialysis treatment.


　　2. Clearly knowing the cause and judging ‘Acute’or ‘Chronic’
　　Once detecting kidney disease or abnormal kidney function，when they go to hospital to see doctor, they may be required to do dialysis. At that time, the point is changing to looking for the root cause and judge the abnormal kidney function “acute” or “chronic”. Different diseases leading to kidney diseases has different prognosis, which is the key point that whether patients can break away from dialysis. According to the statistics from some research, more than 80% patients with acute kidney injury can break away from supportive dialysis treatment. And 10%-15% may progress to chronic kidney disease, and the rest are getting back to the normal.

　　3. Coordinating with treatment to improve prognosis
　　Whether patients with chronic kidney disease occur to kidney function abnormality, they should go to kidney specialty hospital to see doctor and begin to treat primary disease, at the same time, they should been given integration treatment method, including adjusting lifestyle, diet, lowering proteinuria, control blood pressure, regulating blood lipid, controlling blood sugar, rectifying acid-base balance and calcium-phosphorus metabolism disorder. All these treatment method effective practice needs patients’ positive cooperation. In clinical work, we often see the condition of creatinine stabilizing in 200-300 umol/L for several years to tens years, and also another condition that patients with creatinine 140 umol/L progress to end-stage renal failure with 1-2 years and have to receive dialysis. For that, in addition to disease intrinsic factors, whether patients cooperating with treatment and paying sufficient attention to controlling kidney disease progression are also very important factors.



　　Even though patients have to receive dialysis, each patient should choose the suitable dialysis according to personal condition and medical staff’s introduction. Seen from research at home and abroad, when patients have to require long-term dialysis, they should begin with peritoneal dialysis, and then according to patients’ condition and effect, if peritoneal dialysis cannot meet the need, patients can use hemodialysis or kidney transplantation. This way can make patients have a longer life. Patients with refractory high blood pressure, heart failure, severe Nephrotic Syndrome, rapid progressive renal failure, analgesic nephropathy or non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs kidney disease, chronic urinary obstruction or waiting for kidney transplantation should firstly take consider peritoneal dialysis. If patients have abdominal operations history and peritoneal failure, they should firstly take consider hemodialysis. Peritoneal dialysis has advantage for protecting remaining kidney function and improving patients’ life quality. What’s more, peritoneal dialysis has different types, such as automated peritoneal dialysis at night and hemodialysis, which will maximize reduce dialysis influence for patients’ normal work and life to realize ‘break away from’ dialysis. (End)

Headache and Nausea during Dialysis for Kidney Disease Patients

Dialysis can filter wastes and fluid from body to keep the blood clean. However, it has some side effects in dialysis. Headache and nausea are two major troublesome issues for people on dialysis.
　　Headache during dialysis for kidney disease patients
　　There is a variety of causes of headache in dialysis.High blood pressure is a major culprit of this condition and it is mainly attributed to high building up of fluid in body.
　　Rapid fluctuation of blood volume in body is also a cause of headache in dialysis.In hemodialysis,blood needs to circulate outside of the body.If the fluid is filtered out of body too rapidly, it may make the patients experience headache.It is also a cause of nausea in dialysis.
　　Nausea during dialysis for kidney disease patients
　　Nausea is commonly seen in both dialysis and non-dialysis patients.A significant cause is high accumulation of uremic toxins in body.The toxins may be decomposed into ammonia which can irritate gastrointestinal tract, resulting in nausea.
　　In addition, brain edema also can cause nausea in dialysis. The toxins in brain can not be removed as fast as those in other parts, which cause brain tissue to pull in extra fluid,thus resulting in brain edema.Brain edema can cause nausea and headache.

　　Besides headache and nausea,the patients on dialysis may also experience itching,muscle cramps etc.

The proper diet for diabetes patients on dialysis

Diabetes patients are prone to develop kidney failure. If end stage renal disease (ESRD) occurs, dialysis will be required. Dialysis can remove wastes products from body to keep the patients alive.When people with diabetes are on dialysis,they should manage their diet well.
　　High protein: A low-protein diet should be followed before dialysis.However,the patients should add more protein in diet once dialysis begins.Proteins are necessary to repair tissues and maintain muscle mass.Animal protein is a preferred option for the patients with diabetes on dialysis.
　　Low sugar: For the patients with diabetes on dialysis,sweets that not only supply calories but high in sugar should be avoided. Candy, cookies, cakes and other sweets should be limited.
　　Low potassium: Potassium can regulate the heartbeat and keep heart function well. However, if high levels of potassium build up in blood, it will cause irregular heartbeat and even heart failure. Extremely high potassium level in blood can be very dangerous and even life-threatening.So a low-potassium diet is recommended to people with diabetes on dialysis.
　　High fat foods: High fat foods can cause hyperlipidaemia which can increase the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and heart disease.Common foods high in fat include fried foods, animal organs,fat meat etc.
　　Low-phosphorus: Foods high in phosphorus should be avoided. Milk products contain high levels of phosphorus,so avoid buttermilk,chocolate milk,ice cream,sweetened yogurt and frozen desserts.

　　The above are some general dietary tips for people with diabetes on dialysis. As the illness condition varies from time to time, regular laboratory tests should be done regularly. Based on the test result, the diet should be adjusted accordingly.

How to Treat Nephritis with Funeng Therapy

Nephritis refers to the inflammation of glomeruli in kidney. If untreated, it is very susceptible to develop into Renal Failure. Therefore, it is very important for the patients with Nephritis to receive the disease as early as possible. Funeng Therapy for Kidney Disease has showed its dramatic effect in the treatment of Nephritis.
　　Autoimmunity plays the major role in Nephritis. In healthy condition, our immune system can prevent the invasion of the foreign pathological substances into our body so we can keep in healthy condition. However, sometimes the immune system has dysfunction or disorder. As a result, it can not protect our body normally. When the foreign pathological substances like virus, bacteria and so on invade into body, the antibodies are activated to fight against them. For immune disorder or disturbance, they fail to defeat them. On the contrary, the antibodies bind with antigens and deposit in glomeruli. The body will do its best to remove the immune complexes leading to inflammatory response. When the response proceeds excessively, it will cause damage to renal tissues and cells.
　　Therefore, clearing the immune complexes and blocking the excessive inflammatory response are two crucial processes in the treatment of Nephritis.
　　In Funeng Therapy for Kidney Disease, we apply Chinese medicines to clear up the immune complexes. On one hand, the Chinese medicines can degrade immune complexes and then finally the degraded complexes will be secreted from body. On the other hand, Chinese herbal medicines can regulate the patients′ autoimmunity and improve their body′s clearance ability.
　　Once the immune complexes are removed, the inducement of inflammatory response will be removed. Therefore, the damage to renal tissues and cells is inhibited.
　　Moreover, as the immune complexes have damaged the renal tissues and cells, it is essential for us to receive relative treatment to repair the damaged ones and replace the necrotic cells with new ones. In this way, the renal function will improve dramatically and even recover normal.

　　If you are a Nephritis suffer and have been bored of the present treatment′ inefficiency and want to try a new therapy, it is free to consult us on line.

Can Dialysis cause Low Blood Pressure?

Dialysis has many complications which severely affect the curative effects of dialysis and pose great threaten to their life.

　　Low blood pressure is the common complication during dialysis especially among those that have taken long time dialysis. Low blood pressure usually indicates poor prognosis, therefore timely measures should be taken.

　　Careful analysis of underlying causes, personalized dialysis prescriptions and proper intake of medicines can greatly reduce the risk of low blood pressure in dialysis.

　　What are the causes of low blood pressure in dialysis?
　　1. Volume-related factors: too fast ultrafiltration, too low dry body weight, low sodium concentration of the dialysate.
　　2. Vasoconstriction dysfunction: high temperature of dialysate, anti-hypertensive medicines or foods before dialysis, anemia, dysneuria or acetate dialysis.
　　3. Heart problems: diastolic dysfunction, arrhythmia, heart ischemia, cardiac tamponade, myocardial infarction, etc.

　　4. Other rare reasons: bleeding, hemolysis, air embolism, dialyser reaction, sepsis, etc.

Nephrotic Syndrome.How to Diagnose Nephrotic Syndrome.

What is Nephrotic Syndrome
　　Nephrotic Syndrome is not a single disease, but a set of symptoms related to kidney dysfunction including massive loss of protein in urine, low blood protein levels, high blood cholesterols and swelling.
　　How to Diagnose Nephrotic Syndrome
　　Nephrotic Syndrome is diagnosed based on blood sample test and urine sample test. Doctors usually evaluate illness condition according to these two test results. In urine sample test, there is protein item. This item often be paid much attention on. A high level of protein in a spot urine sample may indicate nephrotic syndrome. The doctor may order a 24-hour collection of urine in order to get a more precise measurement.
　　In blood sample test, there is also protein test. Blood tests may show low levels of protein. If kidney damage is advanced, waste products such as creatinine and urea nitrogen may build up in the blood.
　　Once nephrotic syndrome is established, a kidney biopsy maybe recommended, which means a procedure in which tiny pieces of the kidney are removed for examination with a microscope. The biopsy may reveal the underlying disease so that the doctor can determine a course of treatment. If a person has had diabetes for some time, and the patient history and laboratory tests are consistent with diabetic nephropathy, a biopsy is rarely necessary.
　　Causes of Nephrotic Syndrome
　　Nephrotic Syndrome is caused by immune abnormality or disorder. Our human body has a powerful immune system to prevent the foreign microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses from invading into our body. However, in some cases, the immune system is activated improperly in response to antigens that may not have potential to cause disease. When antibodies encounter and bind to antigens in blood, they form very immune complexes. Afterwards, these immune complexes will flow into kidneys and deposit in the glomeruli. The body will start an inflammatory response to try to remove them. Finally, the inflammation can impair the function of glomeruli. As a result, the permeability of the glomerular filtration membrane improves and a lot of protein will be filtered out into urine. In clinic, the persons are diagnosed with Nephrotic Syndrome.
　　Symptoms of Nephrotic Syndrome
　　Swelling: It is a major symptom in Nephrotic Syndrome and especially occurs around the eyes, faces and ankles. In severe case, the persons with Nephrotic Syndrome may experience swelling in belly area.
　　Foamy urine: It is caused by the protein loss in urine.
　　Weight gain: It is due to the retention of fluid in body.
　　High blood pressure: It affects both young and old persons with Nephrotic Syndrome.

　　Complications of Nephrotic Syndrome
　　Infection: The persons with Nephrotic Syndrome have a high risk of developing infection.
　　Chronic Renal Failure: Nephrotic Syndrome may cause the kidney function decline gradually over time.
　　Acute Renal Failure: If the glomeruli are impaired seriously, a mass of wastes products will build up quickly in blood resulting renal function to decline at a fast speed.
　　Malnutrition: Proteins are the main sources supplying energy for the body. As a mass of protein loss in urine can result in malnutrition.
　　Blood clots: The proteins in blood can help prevent clotting. Therefore, the loss of blood proteins can increase the chance of developing blood clots in the veins.
　　Treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome
　　Nephrotic Syndrome is a complex immunological disease affecting glomeruli. The conventional therapies mainly focus on the symptoms of the disease. The experience shows that the conventional along is not enough to treat Nephrotic Syndrome effectively. Clinical practices prove that the Kidney Reactivation Therapy can help the disease more effectively.
　　The Kidney Reactivation Therapy is a great achievement medical field and brings new hope to the persons with intractable disease. As for the treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome, it aims at eliminating symptoms from its underlying causes.The Kidney Reactivation Therapy can suppress the abnormal immune response, block the formation of immune complexes as wells as clear up the immune complexes deposited in blood and glomeruli. In this way, it can inhibit further damage to kidneys effectively.

　　Moreover, the Kidney Reactivation Therapy can restore the impaired renal tissues and correct the immune disorder as well as help rebuild immunity system. Therefore, it can make the persons with Nephrotic Syndrome avoid the relapse of the disease.

How Long Can Patients With Uremia Live?

When doctors are communicating with patients, they always hear them ask how long they can live. Patients are more concerned about this question than the treatment once they are diagnosed with Uremia. Actually, many people have a misunderstanding to Uremia. They think it is an incurable disease, and there will be no hope in their remaining life if they get Uremia. It seems that they fall into an abyss suddenly. How long they can live depends on many factors, so it can’t be made into generalization.


　　The first determinant factor is the severity of Uremia. In my country, when creatinine reaches to 442μmol/L, they enter the stage of Uremia, which is known as early-stage of renal failure. When creatinine is more than 707μmol/L , it belongs to the end-stage of renal failure. The higher creatinine is, the more dangerous patients are.


　　The complication of Uremia is the second determinant factor. When nephropathy develops into Uremia, a lot of complications will be brought along. The severity of the complications also has an important effect on the length of uremic patients’ life. The complications often involve high potassium, high blood pressure, heart damage, and so on. Patients can consult a doctor about your own complications, and ask the severity of your disease and what consequences will happen.


　　The third determinant factor is therapy. If patients do not take any treatment, and very pessimistic with tears all day long, certainly, curative effect will be bad. Moreover, once an unsuitable therapy has been taken, it will aggravate your current condition instead of bringing hope to your life.


　　At present, dialysis and kidney transplant are preferred by many patients. The principle of dialysis treatment is to use manual methods to discharge the waste in body. Uremic patients must do dialysis frequently. As soon as you stop, greater threat will come to your body. So, choosing a right therapy is very important.


　　A good therapy can not only stabilize the condition of disease but also determine how long you can live. You can try a new therapy―Funeng Therapy. Combining with dialysis, it will make a big difference for your condition. If you want to know more about Funeng Therapy, you can contact with us.



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How to Treat Nephritis with Funeng Therapy

Nephritis refers to the inflammation of glomeruli in kidney. If untreated, it is very susceptible to develop into Renal Failure. Therefore, it is very important for the patients with Nephritis to receive the disease as early as possible. Funeng Therapy for Kidney Disease has showed its dramatic effect in the treatment of Nephritis.
　　Autoimmunity plays the major role in Nephritis. In healthy condition, our immune system can prevent the invasion of the foreign pathological substances into our body so we can keep in healthy condition. However, sometimes the immune system has dysfunction or disorder. As a result, it can not protect our body normally. When the foreign pathological substances like virus, bacteria and so on invade into body, the antibodies are activated to fight against them. For immune disorder or disturbance, they fail to defeat them. On the contrary, the antibodies bind with antigens and deposit in glomeruli. The body will do its best to remove the immune complexes leading to inflammatory response. When the response proceeds excessively, it will cause damage to renal tissues and cells.
　　Therefore, clearing the immune complexes and blocking the excessive inflammatory response are two crucial processes in the treatment of Nephritis.
　　In Funeng Therapy for Kidney Disease, we apply Chinese medicines to clear up the immune complexes. On one hand, the Chinese medicines can degrade immune complexes and then finally the degraded complexes will be secreted from body. On the other hand, Chinese herbal medicines can regulate the patients′ autoimmunity and improve their body′s clearance ability.
　　Once the immune complexes are removed, the inducement of inflammatory response will be removed. Therefore, the damage to renal tissues and cells is inhibited.
　　Moreover, as the immune complexes have damaged the renal tissues and cells, it is essential for us to receive relative treatment to repair the damaged ones and replace the necrotic cells with new ones. In this way, the renal function will improve dramatically and even recover normal.

　　If you are a Nephritis suffer and have been bored of the present treatment′ inefficiency and want to try a new therapy, it is free to consult us on line.

How Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy Eliminates Hematuria?

As we all know, the main cause of having red blood cells in urine is the increase of permeability caused by damaged glomerular filtration membrane. Western medical treatment contraposes the symptoms, and has weak pertinence in the recovery of glomerular filtration membrane. Even if the occult blood decreases or disappears for a period of time, no underlying problems are solved, and the glomerular filtration membrane is not recovered. With the disappearance of medicine effects or other causes, occult blood will occur again.


　　The micronized Chinese medicine has stronger drug activity. It made full use of the feature of Chinese medicine: to effect a permanent cure, and make a second link of the cracked molecular Chinese medicine, which formed a new function. At the same time, contrapose the damaged glomerular basement membrane, it can remove the immune complex and pathological tissues, and then recover the damaged basement membrane. This therapy is to recover the damaged pathological renal gene and cellules neoplasiques, active the reproduction of DNA in the damaged histocyte, impels the change of renal structure, and recovers the damaged renal function. As the permanent cause was removed, the occult blood would be gradually decreased and disappeared, which would disappear with the elimination of pathogeny, so, there would be little possibility of repeated outbreak or rebound after drug withdrawal.



　　Therefore, in terms of Hematuria treatment caused by renal disease, the key lies in effecting a permanent cure, which means to recover the damaged basement membrane, or rather deceived by the superficial phenomenon, chasing the figures on test reports.

Treat Diabetic Nephropathy By Stem Cell Therapy,Whether the Stem Cell Transplant is effective for the Diabetic Nephropathy?

Diabetic Nephropathy is one of the most common complications of diabetes. It is like the ‘sugar-coated bomb’ that is quietly attacking the kidney, which results in the emergence of Diabetic Nephropathy.

　　Whether the Stem Cell Transplant is effective for the Diabetic Nephropathy?
　　Clinic practice shows that the incidence of the Diabetic Nephropathy increases with the duration of Diabetic. The Diabetic disease in the early stage is showing that the kidney are being a high filtration because of its size enlarged, its glomerulus filtration increased, then gradual onset of interstitial proteinuria and microalbuminuria. With the extension of Diabetic disease course, protein urine, edema, hypertension and the decreased rate of glomerulus filtration would be occurred, then continuous the Renal Insufficiency and Uremia. These are the main causes of death of diabetes.

　　The Diabetic patients have a high glucose in blood, while the glucose is like sediment in the river, when it is flowing through the kidney it can easily adhere to the strainer, make the kidney harder, narrower, obstructed and even destructed. All of these changes are in quietly process, therefore, the Diabetes is like “sugar-coated bomb” which is quietly entering into the kidney.

　　The Diabetic Nephropathy patient should pay attention to the control of glycemic. If this disease treated well in early stage, it can be reversed. Or it cannot be reversed once it is in the stage of clinical albuminuria. Therefore, initial prevention is very important which also require the diabetic nephropathy pay attention to the control of glycemic.

　　The Diabetic Nephropathy patients must pay attention to glycemic control. Hyperglycemia can promote the sodium reabsorption of kidney, which adds extracellular fluid volume, increases releasing of Atrial Natriuretic Factor (ANF). The ANF augments glomerular anterior vessels, constringes glomerular posterior vessels, which lead to form Renal Hypertransfusion and High Filtration; advanced Glycosylation end products can lead to increasing of glomerular basement membrane and mesangial matrix, and then damage the renal structure and function.

　　However, urinary albumin is extremely relevant to the control quality of glycemic, and strict control of glycemic is the key point for preventing and reducing initial diabetic nephropathy. Excessive intake of protein, especially vegetable protein with bigger molecules can aggravate the damage of renal filtration and accelerate the glomerular capillary sclerosis. Although low protein is conducive to protect the kidney, and this diet is too early for the initial diabetic nephropathy therapy.

　　Is stem cell transplant is effective for the diabetic nephropathy? The conventional therapy must be combined with the later treatment. With the development of medical science, stem cell transplant is applied to the therapy of diabetic nephropathy.


　　In Beijing Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital Stem Cell Center, by means of infusion, the stem cells in the patient body can repair and reverse the damaged renal cells, then reconstruct the function of kidney. Stem cell treatment technology brings hope for majority of diabetic.

IgA Nephropathy is a common kidney disease.How To Treat Flank Pain Caused from IgA Nephropathy.

IgA Nephropathy is a common kidney disease. As we know, kidneys have the functions of eliminating toxins. However, if there are immune complex pile up on kidneys, kidney functions will be decreased.



　　In IgA Nephropathy, unknown agents cause the glomeruli to become — and to stay — inflamed. IgAN is the world’s most common glomerulonephritis [inflammation of the glomeruli], but its pathogenesis is not known. IgAN is considered to be an immune-complex mediated disorder (or immunologically mediated disorder), which means that immune complexes may not be the direct cause of the disease but they help bring about the end result, which is widespread.

      Many patients have symptoms, such as protein urine, blood urine and high blood pressure. Of course, there are some patients who are caring about the treatments for flank pain. Flank pain often starts as a little discomfort in the area above one or both kidneys.
　　There are no good medical treatments for flank pain. Aspirin can aggravate bouts of gross hematuria, and doctors warn against using it in children and teenagers whenever there is a possibility of a viral infection because of the danger of developing Reye’s Syndrome. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) are both nephrotoxic and should not be taken in quantity for any type of pain, including headaches. Besides, painkillers appear to have little effect on flank pain. Similarly, sedatives and muscle-relaxants like Valium do little once an attack is underway, nor is there evidence that such heavy-duty painkillers as Demerol or nerve blocks are effective.

　　It’s also a good idea to stay away from caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco during any exacerbations of the disease. The Network has also received reports that repeated bending and overuse of the back may aggravate flank pain. If this is a feature of yours work, you may need to speak to your employer about possible modifications to your job.

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