Friday, March 29, 2013

Management of Chronic Renal Failure

The management of chronic renal failure is concerned by many patients, which we will have an introduction to in this passage.
Firstly, management of chronic kidney failure includes trying to prevent getting a cold. Once getting infected, new immune complex will accumulate, which worsens kidney failure. What’s worse, serum creatinine may rise sharply, which makes the treatment more difficulty.
Secondly, do not smoke or drink alcohol. Long time drinking wine can lead to anemia, and the disorder of blood cells. Kinds of bleeding are due to the bad absorption of stomach and guts, which also lead to low use ratio of vitamin. In addition, the increased discharge of vitamin can lead to hyperlipidaemia. Smoking can also lead to sclerosis of blood vessels, especially the capillaries, which worsens insufficiency of blood and oxygen in the blood.
Thirdly, keep good mood. Anger and bad mood can lead to the increased secretion of materials which can shrink the blood vessels. What’s worse, it can also influence the clearance function of white cells and phagocyte and reduce the blood flow in the kidney, leading to the insufficiency of blood and oxygen in the kidney, giving more burden to the kidney, which is also a management for patients with renal failure.
Fourthly, management of chronic renal failure also contains food. Generally, patients with kidney disorder should pay attention to the following aspects: low potassium, low phosphorus, low fat, low salt, low protein and high vitamin. Food which is rich in potassium is such as mushroom, tomatoes, sweet tomatoes, cabbage, date, bananas, oranges, apricot, spinach, and so on. Food which is rich in phosphorus is such as sea food, sea plant, kelp, internal organs, tea, and egg yellow, etc.
Besides the above mentioned, treatment is also important. In our Hospital, we have the best therapy in the world: immunotherapy, which is the combination of Chinese medicine and western medicine. Immunotherapy can be divided into 6 steps: immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. For more information, please consult us online or email us.

Renal Failure in Children

Renal failure in children is common seem in clinic, which can de divided into acute one and chronic ones. Real failure in children can be caused by many reasons. Children aged every age can suffer from this disease. At this time, children can have poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, swelling, and so on.

Rena failure in children can be caused by congenital kidney disease, abnormal urinary tract, nephritis, and so on. At the early stage, children usually have increased urine at night, increased thirst, poor appetite, weakness, slow grow and anemia, etc. Some can even feel nausea after being infected. Once renal failure develops into uremia stage, children will need to dialysis or take kidney transplant, which brings more burden to the family.

So early diagnosis is very important, and through regular urine test, we can find out some latent disease. For example, if in the morning, children are found out to have swelling in eyelids, increased foam in urine, and they also have unexplained fever, anemia, increased thirst, increased urine at night, and so on, they should go to have a systematic exam in the hospital so as to get early diagnosis, and take early treatment.

Generally, urine test is the common test for children kidney disease. If in the exam, there shows the following abnormal symptoms, It indicates that parents should attach importance.

1. swelling. There will be edema in eyelids or face, which usually disappears in the afternoon. Swelling will worsen after they do more exercise.

2. There are abnormal cells in urine such as proteins, red blood cells, white blood cells, urine sugar and so on, in which case, parents should let children do further examination.

3. Abnormal amount of urine. Generally, in a day, a baby has about 400 to 600 ml urine, children before going to school have 600 to 800 ml urine, and children who have go to school have 800 to 1400 urine in a day. So increased or decreased urine all can be a signal for kidney disease.

Once children are diagnosed with kidney failure, they are suggested to have Chinese Medicine, which has no side effect and will not influence the growth of children.

How Stem cell Treats ESRD stage

In this passage, we will introduce how stem cell therapy treats ESRD, which is short for End Stage of Renal Disease. To explain it clearly, we would like to begin with a true case. “ Hi, I am from Iran, my sister is in ESRD stage, she has just undergone 2 dialysis sessions.

Few days back serum creatinine was up to 14, but after dialysis it has come down to 8. Doctor said her renal function is 10%.”

ESRD means that patients have become to stage 5 of chronic kidney disease. In some countries, it is also called uremia, in this

Stage, the GFR( glomerular filtration rate) has gone down to

less than 15%. In the kidney, there are many damaged

intrinsic cells and even necrotic cells. In the world, stem cells are generally believed to be the best treatment which can

differentiate into cells which have been necrotic and help

recover renal function.

Can patients with ESRD apply stem cell therapy directly? No. As we know, in ESRD, the renal function is damaged seriously.

Kidney has function of filtrating toxins. Many toxins will

accumulate into the body. If we don’t clear them away, stem cell will not survive after injection into human body. In our Hospital, blood purification such as plasma exchange andChinese Medicine are applied.

Plasma exchange can clear away the immune complex, which is especially suitable for kidney patients in particular for those who are diagnosed with lupus nephritis and purpura nephritis. In immunology, most kidney diseases are caused by immune problem.

Then, patients with ESRD will receive Chinese Medicine, which can also improve the blood circulation, including micro-blood circulation, dissolve the blood stasis, and discharge the toxins at the same time. Next, stem cell therapy is applied, which can differentiate into intrinsic cells which have had been necrotic. As we mentioned, in ESRD, there must be a lot of cells becoming necrotic. Only stem cell in the world can solve the problem and Chinese Medicine can only repair the damaged ones.

The combination of the above mentioned methods can help ESRD patients rebuild renal structure and revive renal function. At present, they are all part of immunotherapy in our Hospital.