Current Recommended Treatment for Lupus Nephritis

Lupus is not a universally fatal disease and most patients can be live with lupus to a normal life span with close follow-up and treatment. However, lupus does vary in intensity and degree, so some people would die of lupus when their illness condition cannot be controlled. Among the complications of lupus, lupus nephritis is one of cause of death for patients.

Once lupus starts flare-up, the disordered immune system would possibly hurt any tissues and organs and kidney is one of them. During the furious immunoreaction, in the patients’ blood are a great number of immune complexes that would stimulate a new furious immunoreaction. It may hurt kidney severely and patients would lose much kidney function in a short period.

Current recommended treatment for lupus nephritis

In our hospital, Immunotherapy is the new treatment for lupus nephritis and it is the collection of several effective therapies and the comprehensive plan for patients. In order to control lupus nephritis quickly, patients need to receive blood purification in the step of immune clearance. The mistaken antibodies and immune cells can be removed from the blood in order to block the damage on kidneys.

Then immune blocker is used for patients, such as hormone, immunosuppressive agents etc. for immune clearance provide a clean internal environment; the mediations will function much better. Immune blocker can keep the immunoreaction from hurting kidney cells.


However, immune blocker brings about many side effects, so patients cannot receive it for a long time. During this time, immune regulation can return a normal immune system for patients, which can block the resource of furious inflammation. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the main therapy in this step. It is an external application and people can enjoy the good curative effect only by lying on the two little medicine bags. It can balance the coordination between the organs and tissues. Once patients’ immune system is normal, all the damage in kidneys would be removed at all.