Patient's question:
Treatment for nephrotic syndrome has been discontinued for 9 months. Can I now receive the influenza A vaccine?Doctor's answer:
Hello, it is best not to take them. Nephrotic syndrome is an immune and allergic disease. Once you get nephrotic syndrome, the first thing to think about when going to the hospital is symptomatic treatment and the use of hormones and cyclophosphamide, because Western medicine has no particularly good methods for treating such diseases, and can only use these drugs to control the condition. Most patients see a significant improvement in their condition 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, because these drugs have particularly severe side effects, such as hormones, some of which take several years to disappear. Long-term use has a great impact on the body's growth and development and fertility, especially in children. I suggest not using these drugs as much as possible at the beginning of the onset, and using Western medicine for symptomatic treatment of complications such as edema and infection. Because using hormones for nephrotic syndrome only changes temporary symptoms and alleviates the condition, it is impossible to cure nephrotic syndrome for most people, only a few can. I suggest that Chinese medicine is the best treatment for nephrotic syndrome, and also the best treatment plan, because Chinese medicine has fewer side effects and can adjust the patient's own immune function, fight allergic reactions, and achieve the goal of removing the root cause. Another advantage of Chinese medicine is that it has anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-glomerular degeneration and fibrosis, counteracts glomerular hyperplasia and exudation, promotes fibrinolysis, reduces platelet aggregation, increases glomerular filtration rate, and improves the permeability of glomerular capillaries, effectively solving the problems caused by nephrotic syndrome.