How to Treat Hematuria in IgA Nephropathy

Hematuria, also can be commonly called blood urine, is a dominant symptom of IgA Nephropathy which is an autoimmune disease. Without an effective and timely treatment, hematuria symptom and patient’s illness condition will become more and more serious. Therefore, having a tight control about hematuria in IgA Nephropathy will be of importance for patients to recover. Well the, how to treat hematuria in IgA Nephropathy?

Cause of hematuria in IgA Nephropathy

Hematuria is blood in urine and diagnosed when excess red blood cells get into urine. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin, so when large amounts of red blood cells get into urine, urine becomes red. Normally, red blood cells circulate with our blood and can not pass through glomerular filtration membrane which perform filtration function. However, for IgA Nephropathy patients, because of IgA immune complexes in mesangial, inflammation occurs and cause damages on glomerular filtration membrane. Damaged glomerular filtration membrane fail to preserve red blood cells; consequently, red blood cells leak into urine and form hematuria.

How to treat hematuria in IgA Nephropathy?

In many cases, IgA Nephropathy patients are prescribed with some oral medicines to restrain the leakage of red blood cells. This helps to remit hematuria effectively, but once patients stop taking medicines or reduce medicine dose, hematuria relapses.

Actually, to treat hematuria fundamentally, we need to repair damaged glomerular filtration membrane and stop red blood cells from being leaked. In clinic, Chinese medicine like Micro-Chinese medicines can be adopted to repair injured kidney tissues and activate them to work again. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy has function to extend blood vessels, block inflammation, prevent coagulation and degrade extracellular matrix. With these benefits of micro-Chinese medicines, not only damaged glomerular filtration membrane can be repaired, impaired kidney function also can be improved. For IgA Nephropathy patients, as long as red blood cells stop leaking into urine, hematuria is remitted from the root.

Lastly, hematuria is just one of the symptoms of IgA Nephropathy. For these patients, they run high risk for various complications like high blood pressure, acute kidney failure, anemia, heart problem and digestive problems. Therefore, it is of great clinical significance for them to treat their disease as quikly as possible after the diagnosis.