Treatment Goal of Diabetic Nephropathy

People with Diabetic Nephropathy should know clearly what are the treatment goals before they start to receive any treatment. Only with clear and correct treatment goals, can they make a right choice among different treatments.

Wrong treatment goal: Alleviate symptoms

In early stage of Diabetic Nephropathy, proteinuria is the only symptom, but when it develops to advanced stage, some other bothersome symptoms like nausea, vomit and itchy skin will appear. These symptoms affect patient's life seriously and make them unable in living a normal life. Therefore, with the purpose of getting rid of or alleviating these symptoms, patients may begin to seek for treatment.

For these patients, their treatment goal is to alleviate symptoms and under such a condition, some oral medicines are usually prescribed. Actually, symptoms of Diabetic Nephropathy occur because of decreased kidney function and if they want to remit these symptoms radically, they must treat Diabetic Nephropathy.

Correct treatment goal: Stop Diabetic Nephropathy and prevent kidney failure

Many patients think that Diabetic Nephropathy can not be stopped at all and their only option is to slow down the progression and then wait for dialysis or kidney transplant. Actually, this is a totally wrong idea, because Diabetic Nephropathy can be stopped with timely and correct treatment.

Conventional treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy is to change diet, control blood sugar and other abnormal indexes. As a matter of fact, it is far from enough to simply control abnormal symptoms and change diet, if we want to halt Diabetic Nephropathy radically. Aside from controlling symptoms, what we need to do also include prevention of new kidney damages and repairing of damaged renal tissues. Diabetic Nephropathy progresses just because more and more kidney damages are formed, so as long as we prevent the occurrence of new renal damages, our treatment goal can be achieved easily.

A clear and correct treatment goal is the precondition for Diabetic Nephropathy patients to make a right choice, so finding out the treatment goal is very necessary before they choose a treatment. In addition, Diabetic Nephropathy in early stage can be stopped easily, so receiving treatment as soon as possible is very beneficial once being diagnosed with Diabetic Nephropathy.