Nephrotic syndrome is a kidney disorder which is characterized by abnormal protein leakage, low levels of protein in blood and swelling of body parts. Commonly, immunosuppressants are prescribed to treat Nephrotic Syndrome, by which clinical symptoms can be under control in a short time. But the disease seems to relapse so easily and many patients still gradually progress into advanced kidney disease.
Immunotherapy, including blocking immune response, immune regulation and immune protection, is an effective and safe way to treat Nephrotic syndrome.
Nephrotic syndrome refers to damaged kidney filtration system due to undue immune response. This kind of excessive immune response causes accumulation of immune complexes in kidney regions and can cause normal kidney filters celled glomeruli to lose their normal filtration abilities, thus leading proteins into urine, decreasing blood plasma osmotic pressure and resulting in swelling.
Blocking the overdone immune response is the first step in immunotherapy, the purpose of which is to save healthy kidney cells from being damaged. We gain time to improve damaged cells from this step.
Deposited abnormalities in kidneys are not eliminated and damaged renal tissues are not repaired from the first step, for which the disease can get aggravated easily under inducements. So nephrologists will continue immune regulation treatment. Chinese medicine is applied with the purposes: first, remove stasis and accelerate blood circulation so as to expel immune complexes into urine; second, active substances in Chinese medicine can improve immunity and self-healing ability by nourshing Qi and Xue in order to remove diseased abnormalities into urine.
