Effective Treatments for Fatigue in IgA Nephropathy

Pushed through fatigue for a long time, many patients with IgA Nephropathy complain they are difficult to concentrate, do schoolwork or perform their job. Hence, exploring some effective treatments for fatigue in IgA Nephropathy has a significant meaning for these patients.

The effective treatment should be based on the causes.

Fatigue is a dominant complaint of most people who have IgA Nephropathy. The fatigue we are talking about is not just ordinary tiredness after a hard day’s work, but extreme, almost debilitating fatigue. In most cases, anemia, heavy loss of protein and excess wastes in the body are direct causes of anemia, while the kidneys damaged by build up of immune complexes is the root cause.

Effective treatments for fatigue in IgA Nephropathy

To ease patients’ fatigue, the best treatment should be the one that can deal with both the direct cause and root cause.

Management for anemia: Usually, a rich-nutrition diet and correct medicines such as EPO and iron supplements can help ease patients’ anemia. In addition, some herbal medicines like cordyceps sinensis and medicate bath can also help strengthen patients’ bone and muscle to supply more energy for these patients. If you have severe fatigue, you can consult the online doctor to give you some suggestions to recover your energy.

Heavy loss of protein in urine: When protein loss is massive, it can provoke Nephrotic Syndrome, symptoms of which include edema, fatigue, abdominal pain and wasting of muscles. In this case, steroid like prednisone is used common to ease patients’ heavy proteinuria. Even though these medicines may cause some side effects, we have to affirm that they indeed can help remit proteinuria.

Remove immune complexes and improve patients’ kidney function: It was impossible to repair damaged kidney and improve kidney function in the past. Fortunately, in recent years, many kidney experts work together and create Immunotherapy, which has an outstanding superiority to treat kidney disease caused by immune disorder, while IgA Nephropathy is just due to autoimmune disorder. Until now, hundreds of patients with IgA Nephropathy have got big improvement from this therapy. Wish you can become one of them in the near future.