Can People With FSGS Kidney Disease Avoid Dialysis

Focal Segmental Glomerulous Sclerosis (FSGS) is a common but refractory nephrotic syndrome in children, adolescents and adults. Even with treatments, some patients will progress into end stage kidney disease and be put on dialysis to sustain their life. It can take a couple of years to require dialysis or it can taken decades or in some cases dialysis can be avoided.

How long will it take FSGS to develop into end stage renal failure, requiring dialysis and kidney transplant depends on many factors including the patient’s age, race, gender, clinical symptoms, complications and treatment.

Conventional treatments for FSGS include medicines to treat high blood pressure, proteinuria, swelling, etc. These have been proved to be effective at relieving symptoms but can not solve the root problem and progressive deterioration of illness can not be prevented.

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can help FSGS patients to avoid dialysis when there is still some kidney functions and fairly urine output. Patients can have the following improvements. High blood pressure can be lowered; protein and blood in urine can be reduced, damaged renal glomeruli can be repaired and kidney functions can be improved; immunity can be enhanced. Lowering high blood pressure and reducing proteinuria have been proved to have significant effects on slowing down illness progression of FSGS. Since Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can not only relieve symptoms but also can repair renal damages and improve kidney functions, it is more effective than conventional treatments and the recurrent rate is much lowered.

For patients that return to dialysis because of recurrent FSGS after kidney transplant especially if the patient is younger than 15 years old and it takes less than 3 years for the original kidney to fail, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can also help to protect and improve the functions of the transplanted kidney.

Often Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy will be combined with advanced blood purification technology called plasma exchange. Plasma exchange has higher clearance rate than dialysis and it can help remove harmful substances from the blood.