Side-effects of Hormone Treatment for Kidney Disease

In the process of kidney disease treatment, hormone treatment is often the basic treatment. Although hormone can relieve symptoms within a short time, there are many side-effects. Long-term using or irregular using hormone will easily occur to adverse reaction. Kidney disease experts will tell us what the side-effects of hormone are.

1. Complicating or worsening infection.
This is often seen in patients with heavy condition and weak physique. Patients have had a poor resistance, and hormone restrain the body’s defense function, which will be conducive to bacterium occurrence and dissemination, such as mycobacterium tuberculosis, fungus and virus infection. Therefore, when patients take a long time hormone, they should alert complicating infections. hormone can cover some infection symptoms, which will easily misdiagnose.
2. Resulting in water-electrolyte disorder.
Hormone can result in diuresis. But at the start period of treatment, the hormone will lead to the water-sodium retention before play a role of dieresis and worsen the swelling. hormone can improve calcium and phosphate excretion and reduce calcium absorption. Long-term using will lead to bone rarefaction, spontaneous fracture and aseptic necrosis of femoral head.
3. Digestive system complications
Hormone can result in peptic ulcer and even induce bleeding and perforation.
4. Neuropsychiatric symptoms
Hormone can result in excitement and insomnia.
5. Inhibiting growth and development.
This condition is often seen in children with long-term using hormone.
6. Hypercortisolism
Such as central obesity, moon-shaped face, acne, polytrichia, hypokalemia, high blood pressure, and diabetes and so on.
7. Others

Long-term using hormone may induce cataract, glaucoma, wound malunion, thrombosis and embolism, hyperhidrosis, night sweat and menstrual disorder