Acute Pyelonephritis

Acute Pyelonephritis is referring to acute infectious disease in renal pelvis mucosa and renal parenchyma, mainly caused by Escherichia coli. The common clinical symptoms include fever, chill, abdominal pain, percussion pain in the kidney, frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination and such irritation signs of bladder. The most serious complication of acute pyelonephritis is infectious toxin shock.
Cause
Pyelonephritis is an inflammation of renal tubules, renal interstitium and renal parenchyma directly caused by various pathogenic microorganisms. The main microorganism is non-specific bacteria, and most are Escherichia coli, and then proteus, staphylococcus, streptococcus faecium, a minority is pseudomonas aeruginosa and occasion is fungus, protozoa, Chlamydia or virus
Clinical Symptoms
1. urinary irritation
Mostly, plyelonephritis is caused by upper infection, so most cases will complicate urocystitis. Patients occur to frequent urination, urgent urination and painful urination. The urine is muddy, and sometimes has blood.
2. the symptoms in the whole body
Include chill, fever (the temperature may be above 38℃), fatigue, poor appetite, and occasionally nausea, vomiting or abdominal pain.
3. local signs
The local signs include pain in one or both kidney, and percussion pain and tenderness.

Patients with diabetes, analgesic nephropathy or urinary tract obstruction complicating acute plyelonephritis may occur to renal papillary necrosis. In addition to sepsis symptoms, blood urine and pyuria, sometimes, patients may have ureter colic due to necrosis papillae falling down. Some patients may also occur to oliguria or anuria and acute renal failure.

The Treatment for Children with Nephrotic Syndrome

 

As to the treatment of Children Nephrotic Syndrome, the common treatment is to use drugs to control the symptoms: for example, the common drugs to control the proteinuria are glucocorticoid(prednison, prednisolone ) and cytotoxic drugs (cyclophosphamide) or immunosuppressive drugs (Cyclosporin A, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, leflunomide ); for the edema, the common drug is diuresis; for the hypercoagulable state, the common drug is anticoagulation or antiplatelet aggregation, such as heparin, dipyridamole. Although the symptoms are controlled, the renal tissues are still in the damaged state, and there may be some side-effects and complications after using these western medicine, especially steroid drugs, such as fat metabolic disorder, patients presenting obesity, abnormal fat distribution; glucose metabolic disorder will lead to high glucose and glycosuria.because patients are in growing period, the western medicine may affect children’s growth and development, especially for the height. However, Traditional Chinese Medicine cannot only treat the Nephrotic Syndrome from the root, but also regulate patients’ other organs.

For the treatment of Children Nephrotic Syndrome, the Chinese Medicine Medicated Bath Therapy in Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital has a remarkable effect. Chinese Medicine Medicated Bath Therapy is a treatment method of putting the whole body or parts of the body into the bath liquids, using electromagnetism to ionize the medicine and guide it into the lesions. Its main mechanism is treating disease with medicated bath by promoting circulation of Qi and blood, strengthening genuine Qi to eliminate pathogenic factors. Using this method to stimulate the skin, meridian and acupoint to absorb and osmose the medicine to the lesions. It has a special effect to organism immunity and genuine Qi regulating. Recently, we have imported tens bathing equipment and seventy other Chinese medicine external equipment to meet patients’ need.

Which Hospital Can Treat Renal Insufficiency?

Generally speaking, Renal Insufficiency is disease in the kidneys leading to renal function working abnormally. In many people’s view, Renal Insufficiency means renal failure, no hope to cure. Actually, Renal Insufficiency can be divided into 5 stages. The fifth stage of Renal Insufficiency is called renal failure. At this stage, patients must rely on dialysis to maintain life firstly and then wait for the new kidney. Nowadays, with the progression of medical technology and the improvement of medical equipment, Renal Insufficiency is not yet the incurable disease. Which Hospital can treat the Renal Insufficiency?
Beijing Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital, as the only one authorized fully-good first class and largest specialized kidney disease hospital, has had the professional expert team, mastered the advanced medical technology and equipped the advanced medical device. In the development process, this hospital is always devoted to cooperation exchange with well-known hospital and famous experts and has signed mutual support-cooperation agreement with many famous hospitals and medical colleges. The hospital, depending on the exquisite skills and excellent service, not only receives public praise, but also attracts some famous people and foreigners coming to see doctor.
After 30 years’ research and clinical trials, the experts in Beijing Yumei Kidney Hospital has created Natural Immune Balance System. If it can be used together with Kidney Recovery Series Classical Secrete Preparation, which make Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine treatment reach a perfect combination, it will receive a wonderful effect for the Renal Insufficiency treatment. Natural Immune Balance System has been applied patents in dozes of countries, receiving international medical acclaim, and been placed into the international promotion plan, which has promoted the status of Traditional Chinese Medicine treating kidney disease. The Natural Immune Balance System is welcomed by more and more patients with kidney disease at home and abroad.

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How to Prevent Glomerulonephritis Developing to Uremia?

Glomerulonephritis is a common kidney disease. Seemingly, it refers to inflammation reaction on the kidneys, but differing from other inflammation. Glomerulonephritis is also an immune disease. Kidneys occur to pathological lesion and it needs to be repaired timely. The expert points out that the early symptoms of nephritis are commonly slight, and easy to be ignored. Many patients develop to end-stage kidney disease due to not enough attention, which increase the treatment difficulty.
How to detect Glomerulonephritis at the early time and avoid progressing to Uremia?
According to statistics, more than half cases of Uremia are from Glomerulonephritis progression. And Glomerulonephritis is one of the main inducing factors for Uremia. So, how to prevent Glomerulonephritis progressing to Uremia? The experts indicate that the key is to confirm the Glomerulonephritis cause, detect the symptoms, treat it positively and strength the treatment effect.
1. Discover Glomerulonephritis symptoms at the early time.
The clinic symptoms are not obvious at the early stage. Commonly it indicates swelling, proteinuria and hematuria, some case may occur to high blood pressure, waist pain, fatigue.
2. Confirm the cause and get a accurate diagnosis.
There are many causes for the glomerulonephritis. All systemic disease can lead to nephritis, especially some immune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, infection, lupus erythematosus and medicine and so on. In addition, long time indiscipline life, unreasonable diet, and cold can also lead to glomerulonephritis
3. After judging the condition, people should get a regular treatment.
Every case has a different condition. Doctor will make a specific treatment schedule according to patients’ symptoms, such as the levels of proteinuria or hematuria, swelling, high blood pressure, kidney function. Natural Immune Balance Therapy in Yumei Kidney Disease Hospital is mainly using Traditional Chinese Medicine together with Western Medicine. Western medicine can eliminate the symptoms and Traditional Chinese Medicine will repair the renal intrinsic cells from the root, and thus achieve the best efficacy.
4. Having a regular diet.

Many patients with Glomerulonephritis have a misunderstanding that glomerulonephritis will recover after treating. However, the diet and health care are also important during the treating process and prognosis.

What are the symptoms of Alport Syndrome?

Alport Syndrome always affects the kidneys. Many people with Alport Syndrome also have hearing problems and abnormalities of the eyes, because the type IV collagen proteins are important to the normal structure and function of the inner ear and the eye.

Kidneys: The central feature of the disease is the presence of blood in the urine (hematuria). Boys with X-linked Alport Syndrome develop hematuria in infancy, and it is always present. The great majority of girls with X-linked Alport Syndrome also have hematuria, but it may come and go The hematuria of Alport Syndrome is usually microscopic, meaning it can only be detected with a microscope or a urine dipstick. Sometimes children with Alport Syndrome have brown, pink or red urine ( gross hematuria) for several days, brought on by a cold or the flu. This gross hematuria will go away on its own and while it may be frightening, it is not harmful.

As boys with Alport Syndrome grow, they begin to show other signs of kidney disease, including protein in the urine and high blood pressure. These symptoms are often present by the time the boys are teen-agers. Girls with Alport Syndrome usually do not have protein in the urine and high blood pressure until much later in life, but occasionally these symptoms appear in teen-aged girls with Alport Syndrome.

Ears:Deafness is another important feature of Alport Syndrome. About 80% of boys with Alport Syndrome will develop deafness at some point in their lives, often by the time they are teen-agers. The deafness affects both ears. Fortunately, hearing aids are usually very effective in these people. Girls with Alport Syndrome may also develop deafness, but less frequently than boys, and usually later in life. Kidney transplantation does not improve the deafness of Alport Syndrome.

Eyes:About 15% of men with Alport Syndrome have an abnormality in the shape of the lens called anterior lenticonus. People with anterior lenticonus may have some problems with their vision, and may develop cataracts.

Treatments for Membranous Nephropathy

Common Treatment

The goal of treatment is to reduce symptoms and slow the progression of the disease.

Controlling blood pressure is the most important way to delay kidney damage. The goal is to keep blood pressure at or below 130/80 mmHg. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are the medicines most often used to lower blood pressure.

Corticosteroids and other drugs that suppress the immune system may be used.

High blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels should be treated to reduce the risk of atherosclerosis. However, a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet is usually not as helpful for people with membranous nephropathy. Medications to reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels (most often statins) may be recommended.

A low-salt diet may help with swelling in the hands and legs. Water pills or diuretics may also help with this problem.

Low-protein diets may be helpful. A moderate-protein diet (1 gram of protein per kilogram of body weight per day) may be suggested.

Vitamin D may need to be replaced if nephrotic syndrome is chronic and does not respond to therapy.

This disease increases the risk for blood clots in the lungs and legs. Patients are occasionally prescribed blood thinners to prevent these complications.

However, the above treatment only can alleviate the symptoms of Membranous Nephropathy, it can’t treat this disease from the root.

Exams and Tests
A physical exam may show swelling (edema).

A urinalysis may reveal large amounts of protein in the urine. There may also be some blood in the urine. The glomerular filtration rate (the "speed" at which the kidneys cleanse the blood) is usually nearly normal.

Other tests may be done to see how well the kidneys are working and how the body is adapting to the kidney problem. These include:

Albumin - blood and urine

Blood urea nitrogen (BUN)

Creatinine - blood

Creatinine clearance

Lipid panel

Protein - blood and urine

A kidney biopsy confirms the diagnosis.

The following tests can help determine the cause of membranous nephropathy:

Antinuclear antibodies test

Anti-double-strand DNA, if the antinuclear antibodies test is positive

Blood tests to check for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and syphilis

Complement levels

Cryoglobulin test

What are The Characteristics of Natural Immune Balance Therapy?

1.Internal Treatment

（1）To improve the kidney’s function

（2）To regulate the immunity

（3）To excrete the metabolic wastet

（4）Diuresis

2.External Treatment

（1）Characteristic TCM Physiotherapy is one of external therapies of Natural Immune Balance Therapy with integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine. It is a kind of Natural treatment with no gastrointestinal absorption and hepatorenal metabolization no pains and no trauma. Together with the clinical practice it has composed an integrative treatment, which has achieved the effects of curing kidney disease both internal and external, coordinating and co-compensating each other, consolidating the treatment effect.

（2）Treatment Items

Medication: Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine of Multifunctional Electromagnetic Medicated Bath Therapy, Computer Medium Frequency Fumigation Therapy, Iontophoresis Therapy, Aerosol Inhalation Therapy and Balance Auricular Acupoint Therapy, Acupoint Moxibustion, Thunder-light miraculous needle Therapy. Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine External Acupoint sticking therapy

Physiotherapy: Millimeter Waves Therapy， Anion Therapy, Electromagnetic Wave Magic Lamp Therapy, Ultrasonic Therapy, Computer Medium Frequency Therapy, “Zhou Lin” Frequency Spectrum Therapy and Cupping, Scaling and Magnetic Sticking. And so on.

Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Traditional Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Balance Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Bloodletting Puncture, Firing Acupuncture, Liquid acupuncture therapy. Warming Acupuncture.

Characteristic Therapies: Balance of Medicate Therapy, Acupuncture therapy, Auricular Acupoint Therapy, Cupping Therapy, Light Bath Therapy and Anion Balance Therapy.

（3）Clinical Application

a. To make up the treatment Schedule: For each patient, after the physical examination, the expert doctors will make up a treatment Schedule for them according to their examination results, 10 times is one treatment course, commonly, the patient will receive 20 times continuously, for patient in special their treatment may prolong or stop according to their illness condition.

b. Treatment method: In our hospital we adopted the unique six kinds of balance therapies together with the clinical integrated treatment to make each patient to be fully up to the balance states of Yin and Yang, and get the effects of strengthening genuine Qi to eliminate pathogenic factors.

（4）Main Method

Balance Medication is referring to the Chinese herbal medicine multi-dimensional external treatment.

Clinical Application: Computer Medium Frequency Fumigation Therapy used together with Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine of Multifunctional Electromagnetic Medicated Bath Therapy, Iontophoresis Therapy and Aerosol Inhalation Therapy and so on, are mainly for dredging meridian of the whole body, regulating the Yin and Yang balance, strengthening genuine Qi to eliminate pathogenic factors to improve the body’s metabolism, promote the restore of the damaged tissues and recover its physiological function.

（5）Assistant Method

During the course of main method treatment for the patients’ existing problems, it needs other five kinds of balance therapies to have a further treatment. It’s mainly bases on the patients’ different presentations, after syndrome differentiation, to choose the different treatment schedule.

Balance Acupuncture includes multi-needles acupuncture (one time tens or hundreds needles used), one needle acupuncture (one time one needle or dozen needles used), and abdominal acupuncture. With these three different acupunctures, according to syndrome differentiation The patient’ body can quickly enter the balance states within a short time (commonly 3-5 times). This kind of treatment is suitable for the difficult and complicated cases.

Balance of Auricular Acupoint Therapy is referring to balance the vital organs of the human body at one time and improve the symptoms rapidly in 1 to 3 days. This treatment is different from the traditional auricular acupoint therapy. It is suitable for the functional disease, such as insomnia, hard breath, gastrointestinal dysfunction and so on. It can also be used as an assistant treatment for the other balance therapies.

Balance of cupping therapy is referring to put tens or hundreds of cups on the fourteen meridians for 5-10 minutes in one time, to improve the symptoms rapidly and get the effect at one time. It is suitable for damp-heat and damp-cold symptoms with severe blood stasis.

Balance of Light Bath Therapy is referring to using the treatment method of Special Electromagnetic Spectrum following the Qi and blood movement direction, with the uniform reinforcing-reducing method to get the effect of warming meridian to dredger collaterals, promoting the blood circulation to remove blood stasis, strengthening genuine Qi by restoring normal functioning of the body to consolidate the constitution, balancing the vital organs and Yin and Yang of the human body. It is suitable for deficiency-cold patients.

Anion Balance therapy is referring to that under the function of anion, through adjusting the internal acid-base balance, to make the body recover its Yin and Yang Balance and its physiological state. This treatment is suitable for conservative treatment of all kinds of systemic diseases of the whole body.

What is the Function of Natural Immune Balance Therapy?

1.To improve kidney function: medicine of activating blood circulation and eliminating stasis can improve the renal blood circulation, relieve hypercoagulable state, promote the absorption of fibrous tissue. And may some of obsolete nephrons at different levels; and TCM of Cordyceps Sinensis can really improve the kidney function, and has been used to the treatment of Renal Insufficiency and even Uremia.

2. To regulate immunity: all tonics, blood-activating drugs and heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs in Chinese medicine can increase the phagocytic function of reticuloendothelial system. Some of the Chinese medicine have the bidirectional regulating function in immunity. Chinese antirheumatic medicine has the anti-allergic function, especially the Common threewingnut root has a good efficacy for Glomerulonephritis. According to the research, this drug can restrain the forming of immune complexes, and relieve the glomerular’s inflammation.

3. To excrete metabolic waste: For example, Rheum can accelerate excretion of urea nitrogen and creatinine and then relieve Azotemia.

4. Diuresis : Traditional Chinese medicine has a good diuretic function. Such as: Grifola, Poria Cocos, Rhizoma Alismatis, Plantain, Lysimachia, Chinese Lobelia and so on used together with some mild kidney medicine may have a good effect in promoting Diuresis. Research suggested that mild kidney medicine may improve kidney’s blood flow, and increase glomerular filtration rate. And water-disinhibiting medicine can reduce the reabsorption of kidney tubules. So these two kinds of medicine used together can promote diuresis.

The Diet Precautions for Patients with Purpura Nephritis

1. Avoid touching all allergic foods. Patient should avoid eating food that can induce Purpura Nephritis, and try to avoid eating diet that can induce allergic Purpura Nephritis, such as fish, shrimp, crab, pollen and cow’s milk.
2. Fluid intake. When patients are in the early kidney failure, their kidney concentrating function has been reducing and the metabolic products need much water to be removed from the kidneys. So if patients have no serious swelling, it is not necessary to limit water aimlessly.
3. Keep a balance diet. The proper diet includes the whole grains, fresh vegetables and fruits, beef, mutton, pork and so on.
4. Avoid salty food, spicy food, and roast food. Patients with Renal Insufficiency or End-stage Kidney Failure should not eat soy products and limit animal meat with high albumin and fry food.
5.Strengthen physique and improve the immunity. Patients should strengthen physique and improve the immunity for all kinds of infections; avoid all inducing factors for allergic purpura.

6.Salt intake. The salt controlling should be based on patients’ condition and kidney function. Not all patients with Purpura Nephritis must control salt intake.

How do we solve hyperkalemia in kidney failure?

Patients with renal failure appear high potassium should be deal with as soon as possible.According to the illness,we need different treatment .Today we discussed from three aspects. The Potassium in blood increased sharply, if it is short time usually need to take active measures to treat, we need the help of the doctor by correct acidosis who use of certain drugs to potassium dropped to normal level in a short period of time.For particularly serious patients, they should give blood dialysis treatment. For hyperkalemia slightly higher, the illness is not serious , we can reduce potassium though the habits and customs.First of all, daily intake of potassium content control in 50 to 60 mmol.stay away from coffee, bananas, oranges, spinach, potato.Such as food containing potassium is higher, it should be noted is that broth containing potassium is high, so should go to eat soup, meat for vegetables, especially high potassium should also go to eat soup. Far from leading to a high potassium drugs, including inhibiting renin - angiotensin - aldosterone system drugs, beta adrenergic receptor blockers, indomethacin and inhibition of potassium in the distal renal tubular secretion of drugs (e.g., spironolactone, ammonia, benzene pteridine) such as renal failure patients will cause hyperkalemia increased drug use. Learn the correct judgment of hyperkalemia in patients with renal failure, pay attention to the details in life, avoid to cause high potassium, TCM has roots in regulate renal failure avoid hyperkalemia in-depth research and good effect.want to understand more details

Do you know about chronic kidney diseases?

Patients with renal failure appear high potassium should be deal with as soon as possible.According to the illness,we need different treatment .Today we discussed from three aspects. The Potassium in blood increased sharply, if it is short time usually need to take active measures to treat, we need the help of the doctor by correct acidosis who use of certain drugs to potassium dropped to normal level in a short period of time.For particularly serious patients, they should give blood dialysis treatment. For hyperkalemia slightly higher, the illness is not serious , we can reduce potassium though the habits and customs.First of all, daily intake of potassium content control in 50 to 60 mmol.stay away from coffee, bananas, oranges, spinach, potato.Such as food containing potassium is higher, it should be noted is that broth containing potassium is high, so should go to eat soup, meat for vegetables, especially high potassium should also go to eat soup. Far from leading to a high potassium drugs, including inhibiting renin - angiotensin - aldosterone system drugs, beta adrenergic receptor blockers, indomethacin and inhibition of potassium in the distal renal tubular secretion of drugs (e.g., spironolactone, ammonia, benzene pteridine) such as renal failure patients will cause hyperkalemia increased drug use. Learn the correct judgment of hyperkalemia in patients with renal failure, pay attention to the details in life, avoid to cause high potassium, TCM has roots in regulate renal failure avoid hyperkalemia in-depth research and good effect.want to understand more details。

The Disadvantages of Western Treatment for Kidney Disease

For the treatment of kidney disease, in western countries, steroid and immunosuppressive drugs are usually the first choice, but patients have a little effect. What is the reason? It is because both of these drugs have the ability of anti-inflammation and immunosuppression. They can eliminate the inflammation within a short time in the kidneys, thus prevent the renal intrinsic cell damaging, controlling the symptoms temporarily. But the renal intrinsic cells are still at the damaged state. Once patients catch a cold and have overworked, the disease condition may relapse and even worsen.

Also, after using steroid treatment, patients will present a lot of side-effects, such as weight gain, bone rarefaction, resistance reducing, blood sugar increasing, gastrointestinal ulcer, electrolyte disorder, and so on. All these symptoms are the results of using steroid treatment.

After knowing the disadvantages of western treatment for kidney disease, we hope patients could choose the correct treatment methods. The earlier treatment is, the better the result is. Never see doctor aimlessly and miss the best treatment time.

What is the Treatment for Chronic Kidney Insufficiency?

What is the Treatment for Chronic Kidney Insufficiency?
For the treatment of Chronic Kidney Insufficiency, the experts in our hospital will make a systematic disease assessment for each patient, and then according to their real disease condition and physical condition to make a treatment schedule,which is suitable for the patients’ own situation. Commonly, our treatment will be done by three steps;
First is the Basic Treatment. Based on patients’requirements, use western medicine and Chinese herbal medicine to control the clinical symptoms, such as lowering down the creatinine level, eliminating protein and blood in the urine, relieving the edema and control the complications, which will create a good treatment environment for the next step.
Second is the Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment. Our hospital is the only one top-class kidney disease specialty hospital in China. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is our character. It includes Chinese herbal medicine treatment and Traditional Chinese medicine external treatment. We have more than ten kinds of Traditional Chinese Medicine external treatment methods, which can meet the requirement of different patients came from different countries with the different cultures.
Third is the Consolidation Treatment. Usually after one month treatment the patients will have a visible effect and greatly improvement. At such condition the patients can discharge and take the medicine for home treatment to consolidate the effect, which can also reduce patients economic burden and mental pressure.

Many years clinical practice has proven that the integration of Western medicine treatment and Traditional Chinese medicine treatment treating kidney disease is a scientific and effective method. It can not only cure the kidney disease correctly and systematically and make patients recovery, but also avoid other organs injuring during the medication treatment. Our treatment has helped many patients from different countries to relieve their kidney disease and get back to the healthy. And our hospital has enjoyed a good reputation in the international kidney disease treatment .