Treatment for Chronic Renal Parenchymal Disease

Kidney can be basically subdivided into renal parenchyma and renal blood vessels. Chronic renal parenchymal disease refers to damages of renal parenchymal tissues.

The first step for effective treatments of renal parenchymal diseases is clear and accurate diagnosis to find out the fundamental causes because different treatments will be offered according to the underlying cause. Some renal diseases such as kidney stone and renal inflammations can be well treated while congenital and hereditary ones require longer treatments. Timely treatments are very important or patients will have to rely on dialysis and kidney transplant when illness condition enters into end stage kidney disease.

Treatments for renal parenchymal diseases include measures for alleviating disorders and symptoms such as loss of appetite, vomiting, nausea, fatigue, itching, swelling, protein urine, blood urine, high blood pressure, urinary tract infections, high levels of serum creatinine and BUN, etc and recovery treatments to reverse parenchymal kidney damages and improve certain kidney functions.

Blood purification technology is a systemic treatment and it is effective at removing excessive metabolic wastes and toxins from the blood so as to purify the blood, rectify internal disorders and much alleviate symptoms and discomforts. Besides hemodialysis, it consists of many advanced technologies such as hemofiltration, hemoperfusion, plasma exchange, immune adsorption, etc.

Besides, patients need to control their blood pressure and blood sugar and maintain them in normal and stable value. High blood pressure and diabetes are the top two causes of renal damages and also major risk factors for aggravating renal damages. Therefore controlling blood pressure and blood sugar through medicines and proper daily diets is of great significance for slowing down the progression of parenchymal kidney diseases. In addition, patients should also have erythropoietin to help their bone marrow to produce enough blood cells.

If renal parenchymal diseases are so severe and patients develop kidney failure, renal replacement therapy---dialysis and kidney transplant will be needed. At the same time of taking dialysis or during the waiting time for kidney transplant, some herbal medicines can help alleviate the side effects of long term dialysis and improve patients' immunity.