Patient's question:
The red blood cells and white blood cells have decreased somewhat. However, the urine protein has not gone down. After being hospitalized and taking hormones for a month, the urine protein still had two plus signs. The doctor recommended that I undergo a kidney biopsy for the diagnosis of the primary disease. But I have been continuously using hormones. Will this affect the kidney biopsy? Please help me with a detailed analysis from an expert! Tell me what I should do.Doctor's answer:
Hello, nephrotic syndrome is an immune and allergic disease. Once it is diagnosed, the first thing people think of when visiting the hospital is symptomatic treatment and the use of hormones and cyclophosphamide, etc. This is because Western medicine has no particularly effective methods for treating such diseases and can only use these drugs to control the condition. Most patients see a significant improvement after taking them, but once they start using these drugs, they form a dependency in the patient's body and cannot be stopped suddenly. Subsequently, many side effects appear. These drugs have particularly severe side effects, such as hormones, which can take several years to disappear. Long-term use has a significant impact on human growth and development and fertility, especially in children. I suggest that at the beginning of the onset, it is best to avoid using these drugs as much as possible, and use Western medicine for symptomatic treatment of complications such as edema and infection. This is because using hormones for nephrotic syndrome only temporarily alleviates symptoms and relieves the condition. It is generally impossible to cure nephrotic syndrome, only a few can. I suggest that the best treatment for nephrotic syndrome is traditional Chinese medicine, which is also the best treatment plan. This is because traditional Chinese medicine has fewer side effects and can adjust the patient's immune function, fight against allergic reactions, and achieve the goal of eradication. Another advantage of traditional Chinese medicine is its ability to anti-inflammation, anti-allergic reaction, anti-glomerular degeneration and fibrosis, counteract glomerular hyperplasia and exudation, promote fibrinolysis, reduce platelet aggregation, increase glomerular filtration rate, and improve the permeability of glomerular capillaries, effectively solving the problems that arise from nephrotic syndrome.