Whether Patients with Kidney Disease can be Pregnant?

Be with a child is an earnest wish for every women. But for the women with kidney disease, are they suitable to be with a child? Will pregnancy worsen the kidney damage? Is there any influence for the fetus? For the answers for these questions, the experts said, there are many kinds of kidney disease. Whether the patients can be pregnant and what time is best for pregnancy are depended on the specific conditions.Generally speaking, the conditions of not suitable pregnancy include:
1. Patients with Renal Failure. No matter male or female, patients with Renal Failure are not suitable for pregnancy, because the toxin accumulation may affect the quality of sperm and ovum. Particularly, women patients with pregnancy will further worsen kidney burden, which not only threat women’s life, but also lead to fetal malformation, abortion and dead fetus.
2. Patients with severe infectious kidney disease. Such as urocystitis, hydronephrosis, they are also not suitable for pregnancy, because they will use large amounts of antibiotics in the treatment process, which may affect fetus’s health.
But, patients with some kidney disease can be pregnant after controlling the disease. These conditions include:
1. Patients with severe infectious kidney disease after controlling well
Patients with severe infectious kidney disease wanting to have a child should be after controlling well the condition and stopping taking medicine for 2-3 months. For patients with kidney transplantation, they can have a child after one year for male and 2 years for female, also the dosage of anti rejection drugs is little. However, the risk of pregnancy and fetus malformation is higher than healthy people.
2. Women with mild Chronic Nephritis
For patients with Chronic Nephritis, if the condition is mild, and no high blood pressure and kidney damage, they can take it consider to be pregnant. But patients should closely observe blood pressure, urine protein and kidney function during the pregnancy.
If patients occur to blood pressure increase and kidney function worsening in the first 3 months of pregnancy, it’s indicated that patients are not suitable for pregnancy. If necessary, patients should terminate pregnancy under doctor’s guidance. Otherwise, both fetus and pregnant mother have a vital danger.

In addition, if one parent with autoimmune disease, like systemic lupus erythematosus, they must meet pregnancy requirements, like urine protein becoming negative, kidney function becoming normal, disease controlling well, stopping taking steroid for above half years.

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.

How is Alport Syndrome diagnosed?

Currently, diagnosis of Alport Syndrome relies on careful evaluation of the patient's clinical features, family history and results of tissue biopsies. Alport Syndrome produces unique changes in the walls of the blood vessels of the glomeruli that can be detected by electron microscopy of kidney biopsy material. Kidney biopsies can also be tested for the presence or absence of the type IV collagen alpha-3, alpha-4 and alpha-5 chains. This information is often very helpful in confirming a suspected diagnosis of Alport Syndrome. An alternative diagnostic procedure is skin biopsy. The type IV collagen alpha-5 chain is normally present in the skin. In most men with the X-linked form of Alport Syndrome the alpha-5 chain is completely missing from the skin.

How dangerous is Lupus Nephritis?

Lupus nephritis is very dangerous. 40% of people with lupus will have it. A kidney biopsy is required to identify which of the World Health Organizaton (WHO) classes it is, because that determines the course of treatment. Left untreated, lupus nephritis can lead to kidney failure, dialysis, and the need for a tranpslant IF the patient qualifies. Typically, lupus nephritis is identified by protein or cellular casts in a routine urinalysis. It is NOT an infection. Lupus is NOT infectious. Lupus nephritis occurs when the autoimmune reactions cause problems in the glomerlui or little filters in the kidneys. The filters are supposed to catch protein and return it to the blood stream. In lupus nephritis, it allows the protein to spill into the urine.
　　Lupus nephritis is treated with immunosuppressive chemotherapies. The WHO class determines what the nephrologist and rheumatologist will try. Unfortunately, not all drugs work the same way on all lupus patients.
　　Cytoxan, in intravenous chemotherapy also used to treat breast cancer is sometimes used but in lower doses. Other patients will respond well to Cellcept, an anti rejection med that transplant patients take.
　　I have lupus nephritis and also had a kidney biopsy. I have also been on Cellcept since October of 2003. My kidney function is pretty near normal and althought my rheumatologist has declared me to be in remission, I will remain on a low dose for life along with plaquenil, and well be monitored every three months for life.

　　That's not a huge price to pay when you consider the alternative. I personally know two women with lupus nephritis in my city who died this year.

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　　Normally, your immune system can protect your body from outside invaders and it can tell from the difference between the foreign harmful substances such as bacteria and virus and the stuff inside you (like your organs). However, in an autoimmune disease the immune system cannot tell the difference between harmful substances and healthy ones. As a result, the immune system attacks otherwise healthy cells and tissues.
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