How to Treat Protein in Urine

Under normal circumstance there can be protein in urine, but the amount is very small (daily discharge of protein is less than 150mg) because of the filtration function of the glomeruli and the re-absorption function of the renal tubules and it is negative in the protein qualitative test. When the protein leakage is more than 150mg, the routine urine test can detect it and this is called proteinuria. And if the protein in urine is more than 3.5g/d, it is massive proteinuria which is typical sign of nephrotic syndrome.

Proteinuria is a common symptom of many kidney diseases and it is also a crucial inducing factor of renal deterioration. Long term massive protein leakage will cause high perfusion, high pressure and high filtration in the kidneys and speed up glomerular sclerosis or interstitial fibrosis, therefore it is an important step to reduce and bring proteinuria under control for treating kidney diseases and protecting kidney functions.

Kidney damages can be confirmed if there is proteinuria in B ultrasound, routine urine test and kidney function test and if other factors like physiological factor and orthostatic factor can be ruled out. When proteinuria is alleviated, it might be improvement of kidney function or may be due to worsening of the illness due to the majority of the glomeruli have been scarred and can not filter protein. Therefore the amount of protein in urine sometimes can not reflect the severity of the illness and the duration of proteinuria, renal function and systemic conditions should be taken into account.

Conventional medicines for proteinuria are hormones and immunosuppressant, however the effects can last for a short time and the proteinuria is very easy to relapse and this will further aggravate the kidney functions.

Micro-Chinese Medicine can alleviate proteinuria and at the same time repairing damaged glomerular filtration membrane. So long as the filtration membrane is repaired, the large molecular protein will not pass through the glomeruli and proteinuria will disappear from the root and the recurrent rate will be much lowered.