The disease have a variety of clinical symptoms, when a person experience the symptoms including malar rash, discoid erythematosus, photosensitization, dental ulcer, arthralgia, serositis, renal lesions, epilepsy, mental symptom, anemia, the reduce of blood platelet and leukocyte, etc., he/she should go to hospital to do a physical examination as early as possible.
Lupus nephropathy is a kind of autoimmune disease, the patients with lupus nephropathy often suffer from various injury of kidney. Autoimmune disease is caused by the damage of tissue due to body's immune system attacks its own tissue, the root cause is the abnormal lymphocyte due to certain environments such as environmental pollution, pressure, trauma, infection, genetic factors, etc. The disease sees more at female, which may be related to the disorder of estrogen.
For lupus nephropathy, hormone therapy or immunosuppressor can only delay the disease development and the disease will reappear easily, so the prevention measures of reducing the risk of recurrence is important. In this case, we suggest the combine therapy of Chinese medicine and western medicine to cure lupus nephropathy fundamentally. The patient should cultivate a stable and optimistic mood, avoid excitement, establish confidence to conquer the disease, besides, patient need avoid bright sunlight and ultraviolet irradiation, avoid using the drugs that may cause lupus activity.
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