Chinese Medicine Treatment for FSGS in Children

Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a disease where part of kidney filtering units, glomeruli, is damaged. This disease has a high incidence in children. For children with FSGS, most of their parents prefer to help them choose Chinese medicine treatment to control their condition, because Chinese medicines produces much fewer side effects for children’s growth than western medicine. Here, you can get an overall understand of Chinese Medicine Treatment for FSGS in children.

As we know, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a history of more than 2000 years. It including many therapies including medicated bath, massage, acupuncture and herbal medicines. The correct use of these therapies is able to strengthen the pesticide effect of the whole Chinese medicine treatment for FSGS in children. According to the characteristics of FSGS, the following treatments may be used.

◆ Medicated bath

Then occurrence of FSGS has a link with immune disorder to some extent, so regulating patients’ immune system is very necessary. Medicated bath is a good choice to help improve patients’ immunity. If your children is suffering from FSGS, you can buy some herbal medicines from your local Chinese medicine shop and put them into the water when your children take the bath. Chinese angelica, sichuan lovage rhizome, salviae miltiorrhizae, rhizoma cyperi, etc, all conducive for strengthening your children’s immunity. However, children with FSGS have a great difference in the usage of herbal medicines, so you had better consult the kidney experts online to ask for herbal medicines that are suitable for your children.

◆ Massage and acupuncture

Children with FSGS may easily feel tired or fatigue, massage and acupuncture is able to help them ease their tiredness. What’s more, massage is also good for those children whose weight is heavier than the normal. For people with kidney disease, a normal weight is also important.

◆ Herbal medicines

Here, instead of oral herbal medicines, we prefer to talk more about external applications herbal medicines, which can reach the kidney lesion directly. With these external applications herbal medicines, children with FSGS needn’t bear the bitter medicine any more.

Now, we have has a general understand about Chinese herbal medicine for FSGS in children. The good pesticide effect of the above treatments need the joint effect of parents and doctor.