Chinese Traditonal Treatments of IgA Nephropathy

At present, the most effective treatment for IgA Nephropathy is traditional Chinese medicine. Western meditations could not have a comprehensive clearance about primary causes that induce inflammation in response e.g. various toxic substances in the kidney although they could inhibit inflammation symptoms on the clinical practices. On the contrary, active substances in traditional Chinese medicine would give a comparatively complete clearance to the toxic substances produced by inflammation and pay more attention to repair renal function.
The treatments should depend on the index and the extent of albuminuria, hypertension(High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease), impaired renal function, glomerulosclerosis, renal interstitial fibrosis and renal arteriolar sclerosis, because the prognosis connects with the above factors closely.
The key point for IgA Nephropathy treatments lies in renal function protection, albuminuria reduction, hypertension control and retard of the progress. Meditations commonly used in treatments of IgA Nephropathy include Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB), hormones, immune inhibitors, anticoagulants, anti-platelet aggregation and fibrinolysis drugs, fish oil, and etc. Besides, many patients also take tonsillectomy and traditional Chiese medicine.

It takes certain advantages in utilizing traditional Chinese medicine, because it could repair the renal tissues according to syndrome differentiation, and improve renal function so as to control the disease. It takes time to have better cure, because chronic Kidney disease for many years could not be cured over night. Therefore, we should remind the patients that they should pay close attention to the disease and take treatment actively on one hand, and persist in the treatments patiently till the complete recovery on the other.