Immunotherapy- An Alternative Treatment For Lupus Nephritis

Lupus Nephritis is a kidney glomerular disease which is caused by Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, an immune system disease and can affect various organs of our body like skin, kidney and nerves. Therefore, the aim of our treatment is to improve immunity and regulate immune system. Conventional treatment may be applied to control symptoms due to its quick efficacy, while immunotherapy (it is a therapy which has 6 steps, please have your patient to read more about it. Further information about immunotherapy, you can leave us a message to kidneycares@hotmail.com) may be a good alternative choice for Lupus Nephritis patients to improve their immune system.

1. Traditional treatment used to control Lupus Nephritis symptoms

In many countries, doctors will prescribe some hormone medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and tripterygium to control the disease. These immunosuppressive medicines prevent inflammatory response for the time being. However, because immune complexes are not cleared away, inflammatory response will appear again when you stop taking immunosuppressive medicines or reducing the dosage of these medicines and your Lupus Nephritis relapse easily. Therefore, conventional treatment is not an effective therapy for Lupus Nephritis.

2. Immunotherapy-an alternative and effective therapy for Lupus Nephritis

As its name suggests, immunotherapy is applied to not only improve immunity, regulate immune system but also enhance your self-curative ability which can make those impaired but not necrotic cells alive again. And the whole treatment of immunotherapy is divided into 6 steps, including immune diagnosis, immune inhibition, immune clearance, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. Every step has its own treatment goal. The following will analyze them for you.

Immune diagnosis: it is used to find out where immune complexes deposit, how many immune complexes are and what type of immune complex is. The latter steps are on the basis of first step, so immune diagnosis is of great importance for the following.

Immune clearance: it focuses on excreting immune complexes out of your body. This step can avoid inflammatory response by the way of clearing away immune complexes depositing in kidneys.

Immune inhibition: In this step, your doctor will give you some immunosuppressive medicines to prevent immune response to avoid further kidney damage.

Immune tolerance: That is to say, immune complexes can not be cleared away quickly. In this case, you need to take immunosuppressive medicines for some time. Giving immune complexes some time for disappearing.

Immune adjustment: Lupus Nephritis is an immune system disease, so the aim of treatment is to start from the immune system. Only in this case can immune complexes be prevented from being inflammatory response. In this step, Chinese Medicine is applied to improve your immune system.

Immune protection: This step aims to protect your immune system so as to prevent the invasion of immunological diseases.

Immunotherapy is an alternative therapy and with immunosuppressive medicines using, it can work effectively.