What is IgA Nephropathy?
Many diseases can affect your kidney function by attacking and damaging the glomeruli, the tiny filtering units inside your kidney where blood is cleaned. Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy, called IgAN for short, or Berger’s disease, is a condition that damages the glomeruli inside your kidneys and can cause kidney disease.
Causes
The causes of IgAN are not well understood. IgAN is not just a kidney disease. It is a response from your immune system to outside irritation (like viruses). The immune response is what affects your kidneys. The immune response releases Immunoglobulin A (IgA). Immunoglobulin A is a protein that helps your body fight infections. IgA nephropathy occurs when IgA protein gets stuck in kidneys causing inflammation. The inflammation causes your kidneys to leak blood and protein (usually immediately) and over the course of many years, your kidneys can lose function and lead to kidney failure. In some cases, the disease seems to cluster in certain families and in certain areas of the world. It rarely occurs in people of African heritage. Some researchers believe there are genetic factors that may play a role in causing the disease.
Symptoms of IgA nephropathy
Each person may have a different set of signs and symptoms from IgAN.
The most common signs are
Hematuria: Having blood in your urine that can sometimes make it dark brown or cola colored.
Proteinuria: Foamy urine due to large amounts of protein leaking into your urine.
Diagnosis TESTS
Urine test: A urine test will help find protein and blood in your urine.
Blood test: A blood test will help find levels of protein, cholesterol, and wastes in your blood.
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR): A blood test will be done to know how well your kidneys are filtering the wastes from your body.
Kidney biopsy: In this test, a tiny piece of your kidney is removed with a special needle, and looked at under a microscope. The kidney biopsy may show if you have a certain type of a protein that helps your body fight infection, called an IgA antibody, in the glomerulus.
Treatments
After our expert team makes thorough evaluation of each conditions, depending on the severity of kidney damage, we will use one or more of our featured therapies to treat your kidney disease.
Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy
Because of the dyfucntion of the patient’s kidney, there is more poisons in the blood. After more than 30 year research and clinical practice, we developed Blood Detoxifying and Function Rebuilding Therapy. Based on specific conditions of each patients, using the proved Chinese Medicine formulas to clean the blood first which is very critical step, and then make the organs blance. The theray not only relieve the symptoms and prevent complications, but also can treat kidney disease fundamentally with no further relapse. This most advanced treatment integrates comprehensive blood purification methods with traditional Chinese medicine and get remarkable results.
Immunotherapy
Combining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Immunotherapy aims at regulation of the internal environmental immune balance of the body which is very effective in treating IgA Nephropathy. As a natural and safe treatment, it applies to to patients of all ages. The treatment help patients restore the overall renal function and the holistic immune system.
Superfine Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy
IgA Nephropathy is featured with IgA proteins and immune complex deposits in the mesangial area of the kidneys. In western medicines, the treatment usually fails to clear these depositions out of the body, the disease often relapses. By dredging and clearing immune complexes out of the body, Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy treat IgA Nephropathy from the root cause. In addition, Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy promotes blood circulation, inhibits inflammation, and restores kidney function gradually.