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According to a new theory on kidney disease, more than 95% kidney diseases are caused by disorders and dysfunctions in the immune system and even the hereditary polycystic kidney disease has something to do with the immuity.
Under normal circumstances the human body can protect the body from foreign substances. Antibodies will combine with these foreign substances (called antigens) to form immune complex which can be cleared out of the body. However in case of immune disorder and immune dysfunctions, these immune complex can not be discharges and they will circulate with blood circulation and deposite in the kidneys as well as other tissues and orgens. The deposition of immune complexes in the kidneys will cause abnormal inflammatory reactions which will further damage renal intrinsic cells and tissues. This theory is especially ture for some auto-immune kidney diseases such as IgA nephropathy, nephrotic syndrome, etc.
Knowing the underlying causes of kidney damages and kidney disease, the treatments can be more targeted and effective. What we should do is to fisrt stop the inflammations in the kidneys, remove the deposited immune complexes and then repair kidney damages and improve kidney functions.
Immunotherapy can be said to be the latest treatment for kidey disease. To make it simple, it is the combination of chinese therapy and western therapy and takes both the advantages of these two therapies.
Immunotherapy is a systemic and scientific therapy and it consists of 6 steps---immune diagnosis, immune blockage, immune tolerance, immune regulation, immune protection and immune clearance. Immunotherapy first use western therapies such as hormones, immunosuppressant and blood purification to alleviate the symptoms and bring the illness condition under control, then use chinese therapies to regulate the disorders and imbalances in the body, repair kidney damages and recover kidney function and rebuild the immune system. So long as the underlying cause is solved, kideny disease can be treated.
