Font Size A A A

A Natural Treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy

2013-01-08 14:34

As the treatment for Diabetes develops, the mortality of diabetics has been reduced, but the incidence of Diabetic Nephropathy raise obviously. Is there a natural treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy? This must be many patients’ concern. Here, this article will give them a satisfied answer. To find the answer, we must know the root cause of Diabetic Nephropathy.

What causes Diabetic Nephropathy?

A long history of Diabetes will cause some complications which may threaten the patients’ life. As one complication, glomerular basement membrane thickening and mesangial area hyperplasia may occur when the person has 10 to 15 years of Diabetes history. At this time, GFR still keeps a high increasing rate, but over time the GFR will decline and proteinuria will also become more and more serious, because the kidney can’t do its job normally. This kind of kidney damage called Diabetic Nephropathy is due to the long history of Diabetes, so we can know how to treat this disease.

What is a natural treatment for Diabetic Nephropathy?

Diabetic Nephropathy is different from other kidney disease, because it is caused by the long term of Diabetes damage to the organs. Therefore, high blood sugar control is the first step of this natural treatment.

◆ Control high blood sugar

Insulin, the only medicine to reduce the high blood sugar, and a healthy diet are able to help control Diabetes. Besides, the dose of insulin is also very important, so the person can’t stop or reduce the does of insulin without his doctor’s permission.

◆ Repair the thickening glomerular basement membrane and mesangial area

These two changes can be defined as a kidney fibrosis, so the next step of this treatment is to block this progression. To achieve this, some herbal medicines, which have a function of repair and making the new tissue grow, are used in this treatment. Some other methods such as medicated bath and acupuncture are also adopted to strengthen the effect of these herbal medicines.

If you are one of these patients, you can ask any follow-up question about this natural treatment for Diabetic nephropathy. Hope you can get your wanted information from us.