Side Effects of FSGS Treatment

Patients with FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)are seeing doctors here and there, seeking a new hopeful therapeutic method which can help them get rid of sufferings. Actually, FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)is one stage of IgA nephritis.
FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)is a kind of common primary renal glomerular disease, which has symptoms like Nephrotic Syndrome, accounting for 55%. FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis) belong to refractory kidney disease for in most cases, it represents as steroidresistant and has bad prognosis. The most common medicine which is used to treat FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)is hormone. The side effects of hormone to treat FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)go as follows:
Long time excessive use of hormone may lead to central obesity, moon-shaped face, purple striae, thinner skin, myasthenia, sweeny, hypokalemia, edema, nausea, vomiting, high blood pressure, infection,etc. For children, long time use of hormone will influence the growth and even leads to mental symptoms.
From the above-mentioned, we can get a conclusion that we had better reduce the amount of hormone and it will be best to find out another therapeutic method? What’s the treatment principle?
Firstly, FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)shows that IgA nephritis developed into middle stage. At the moment, protein in urine has occurs and serum creatinine has risen, which is because the wide deposition of immune complex in membrane area, with damaged intrinsic cells. IgA nephritis is a pathological diagnosis disease, the clinical symptoms of which are recurrent gross hematuria with or without protein in urine.
For patients with FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis), their kidney is in a condition of insufficiency of blood and oxygen, which is the critical stage causing pathological damage. If in this stage, patients with FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)don’t receive effective and systematic treatment, renal glomerular membrane will not be repaired, occult blood in urine, protein in urine will just disappear for a while. If medicine is stopped, these symptoms will recur again. Even serum creatinine will increase accordingly. Edema may also recur consequently. So patients with FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)should find out another therapeutic methods to treat FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)thoroughly.
Traditional Chinese herbal medicine can repair the damaged renal glomerular membrane when the active materials play roles in patients with FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis)’ body. After that, filtration barrier will be repaired. Protein in urine, occult blood in urine will disappear forever.