Principles of Treating Diabetic Nephropathy

Patients with diabetes are confirmed to develop diabetic nephropathy when U-albumin is more than 300grams over 24 hours. Diabetic nephropathy has no obvious symptoms at beginning, but it progresses rapidly. Uncontrolled or poorly controlled, it leads to Renal Failure. In such case, there are some principles of treating diabetic nephropathy.

Control of blood sugar

Controlling blood sugar strictly at early stage of diabetic nephropathy can improve glomerular filtrating function, and thus decreasing protein in urine and preventing kidney hypertrophy. Strict control of blood sugar at other stages is still beneficial. It can reduce the incidence of urinary tract infection, preventing the kidneys from being further damaged. In general,
Well controlling blood sugar means Fasting Plasma Glucose is less than 6.1mmol/L and 2h Plasma Glucose is less than 8.0mmol/L.

Diabetic Nephropathy is often accompanied by high blood pressure. And keeping blood pressure at a normal level is playing a major role in slowing down kidneys’ deterioration. Usually, patients whose urine protein is less than 1 gram per day should keep blood pressure at 130/80mmHg. And those whose urine protein is more than 1 gram should keep it at 125/75mmHg. Clinical practices have proven, effective control of blood pressure can obviously reduce urine protein and put off deterioration of the kidneys and eyes.

Low protein diet

Low protein diet can ease the glomerular hypertransfusion, reducing protein in urine and increasing concentration of albumin in serum, as well as keeping creatinine clearance rate stable. At present, it is recommended that daily protein intake should limited in 0.6g/kg, or calories of daily protein intake less than 20 percent of total calories of daily intake food.

Use of medicines

Medicines are indispensable in treating diabetic nephropathy. Apart from medicines used for controlling blood sugar and blood pressure, medicines for improving microcirculation should be taken. When using medicines, whatever they are, patients should make sure that those medicines are non-toxic or low-toxic by consulting doctors; because medicines may damage the kidneys.

Every principle above is important in treading diabetic nephropathy, especially the last one. If medicines are improperly used, the damaged kidneys will further deteriorate. Hence, it is significant for patients with diabetic nephropathy to choose a better treatment, say Micro-Chinese Medicine osmotherapy and Immunotherapy, which have no side effects in treating this disease.


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