Modern medical treatment of IGA nephropathy

IGA nephropathy is the most common primary chronic glomerular disease, and its clinical manifestations are mainly protein urine or blood urine accompanied with protein urine. Here i will introduce some modern medical treatments of IGA nephropathy.

1. Adjust living habits. Especially in allusion to the individuals who have bad living habits, they should particularly change their bad habits and try their best to form new good living habits. Such as losing weight, giving up smoking, low-salt and low-fat diet, taking some aerobic exercise, etc.
2. Prevent infections. The best way to prevent infections is to boost resistance and avoid catching cold. If someone once get infected, he must get it controlled actively and thoroughly. If patients also have recurrent tonsillitis or certain blood urine concerned with tonsil infection, removing of the tonsils is suggested. Retrospective studies suggest that the tonsil excision is good for patients with mild-to-moderate IGA nephropathy.
3. Prevent drug use of ischemic and renal toxicity. The main measure is to ensure sufficient supply of blood so that we can avoid dehydration and severe hypotension. Reducing the use of renal toxicity drugs to maintain enough urine output is also helpful.
4. Other support therapy. Including the anticoagulation and antiplatelet aggregation, regulating blood lipid, traditional Chinese medicine, etc.
According to the above factors, we can conclude that the modern medical treatments of IGA nephropathy are some good living habits in the daily life. If you want to know more about IGA nephropathy and its treatments, you can contact our specialists online to acquire more information.

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