Why Nephrotic Syndrome Relapses so Frequently by Hormone Treatment

The role of hormone treatment in remitting symptoms and slowing down deterioration of Nephrotic Syndrome should not be denied. However, it should not be denied that, hormone treatment doesn’t solve the problem of recurrent relapses in Nephrotic Syndrome. Western medicines joined with traditional Chinese medicine are recommended to achieve effective treatment effects in Nephrotic Syndrome.

Why Nephrotic syndrome recurs frequently under hormone treatment? Proteinuria is a main index to evaluate the treatment effects. To rid the symptom effectively we need to know why the symptom occurs. Proteinuria indicates an excess loss of proteins, which will happen when the filtering holes of renal glomerulis are impaired. In the treatment of proteinuria, hormone treatment blocks the holes so that proteinuria can be controlled down. However, the treatment effect is just within short-period because the injured renal tissues are not repaired. In addition, hormone treatment has immunosuppressive effect, which means it can lower immunity and induce infections. Infections will cause relapses of Nephrotic syndrome and worsen damage on kidneys.

Combing traditional Chinese medicine in the Nephrotic Syndrome treatment can bring therapeutic treatment effects. Chinese medicine treatment will decrease side effects of long-term use of hormones and improve immunity in the patients. So first of all Chinese medicines is helpful for a better recovery from disease condition and enhance resistance of human body to infections/relapses. Moreover, Chinese medicines directly function on damaged glomerular cells, replenishing sufficient blood and nutrients to injured renal tissues and resisting inflammation on kidneys, to repair damaged glomerular filtering cells and get rid of proteinuria effectively. Chinese medicine is slow acting, as compared to western medicine treatment. Combing the two as a whole can effectively control the illness condition and recover from the disease.