Side Effects of Steroids To Kidney Patients

Once kidney patients start taking steorids, it is difficult for them to get rid of them. Do you know the side effects from steroids?

Side effects of steroids include the following aspects:

1. Changesin the appearance

Appearance change is the most obvious side effect from steroids. Large dosage of steroids will lead to fat redistribution and fat accumulation. Patients can suffer from moon face, buffalo hump, thin leg but trunk obesity.

2. Voracious appetite

Kidney patients with steroids will have voracious appetite. But they should control the diet intake. Pack a couple of smaller meals. Diet should be light, less salt intake, reduce food with high sugar and high fat.

3. Osteoporosis

Steroids can make bone calcium free, causing osteoroposis. Osteoporosis is one of the side effects from steroids.

4. Decreased immunity

Steroids will make you fatigue and decrease your immunity. With low immunity, you will catch cold easily. Cold will increase the risk of relapse of kidney disease.

5. Excited body

Most kidney patients will be very excited once they taking steroids. They usually suffer from insomnia.

6. Bleeding of gastrointestinal mucosa

Steroids will injure your gastric mucosa and lead to gastritis or gastric ulcer.

With these side effects, most kidney patients want to get off steroids. Is it possible?

Yes, it can be possible. In our hospital-Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, we treat kidney disease with a series of Chinese medicine treatments like Medicated Bath, Medicated Foot Bath, Mai Kang Mixture, Moxibustion Therapy, Medicinal Soup, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy and Steaming Therapy, etc. These therapies first remove toxins out of your body via urine, bowel movement and sweat glands. This can set up a clean blood environment for repairing injured kidney tissues and improving renal function. After blood is purified, Chinese medicines help expand blood vessels, improve blood circulation, prevent inflammation and coagulation, degrade extracellular matrix and provide nutrients so as to improve renal function gradually. Our Chinese medicines can help you avoid steroids naturally.

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