Alternative Treatment to Prevent Relapse of IgA Nephropathy

IgA Nephropathy relapses easily if treated with conventional treatment. What is worse, every relapse of illness will accelerate IgA Nephropathy to kidney failure. Therefore, an alternative treatment is needed to prevent relapse of IgA Nephropathy.

Immunosuppressor and cyclophosphamide are the most commonly used medicines for IgA Nephropathy in medicines. These medicines are applied because they can inhabit inflammation in kidney, which can help to prevent further kidney damages in short term. However, the problem is kidney tissues are injured in IgA Nephropathy due to inflammation which occurs because of IgA deposition in mesangial areal. Blocking of inflammation helps to prevent further kidney damages, but if IgA deposition can not be cleared away, inflammation appears again when patients stop taking medicine or reduce medicine dose. That is the reason why IgA Nephropathy relapses frequently with conventional treatment.

Immunotherapy is a good treatment option to stop frequent relapse of IgA Nephropathy. It is totally different from conventional treatment which only helps to alleviate symptoms and block inflammation. This alternative treatment is divided into six steps while treating IgA Nephropathy: Scientific diagnosis, Immune blocking, Immune tolerance, Immune regulation, Immune clearance and Immune protection. Each of these steps focus on different treatment goal and by achieving them one by one, not only IgA deposition in kidney and blood are cleared successfully, kidney function is improved greatly.

In Immunotherapy, both Chinese medicine like Mai Kang mixture, Micro-Chinese Medicine and Medicated Bath, as well as western medicines like hypotensive drugs are used properly in different steps. Chinese medicine plays the major role in the treatment process and western medicines are usually used for a short time, so as to avoid side effects.

Recently, Immunotherapy becomes more and more popular among IgA Nephropathy patients owing to its safety and obvious treatment effects. More importantly, it can stop the relapse of illness fundamentally.