The Symptoms of Alport Syndrome

Alport syndrome is a inheritary kidney disorder. Thus, patients need to pay attention to both the symptoms of alport syndrome involving in kidney damage, and the damage to other organs. The prognosis of alport syndrome is different from person to person.

● The symptoms of Alprot Syndrome

The symptoms of kidney damage: Blood urine is the commonest symptoms in Alport Syndrome. 68% Alport syndrome have blood in the urine. About 67% men with Alport syndrome develop gross hematuria before 10-15 age. Gross hematuria can occur following upper respiratory tract infection or overwork.

Protein in the urine is another symptom in patients with Alport syndrome. With age or the presence of blood in the urine, patients can develop persistent proteinuria. The incidence of nephrotic syndrome is 30-40 percent. Under this case, it often has a poor prognosis. Often, 40 aged women develop end-stage renal failure. Sometimes, young people will develop end-stage renal disease.

● Other Symptoms:

Sensorineural hearing loss: It happens to people with ALport Syndrome and audiomery is necessary. The incidence of sensorineurial hearing loss is 81% and 19%.

Eye disease: The youngest patients 13 age with Alport Syndrome develop eye disease. Generally, the eye disease caused by Alport syndrome does not affect the sight. 60% male patients and 70% female patients will develop this disease.

The Latest Treatment for Chronic Kidney Disease

Immune block therapy is an important part of chronic kidney disease treatment.
Based on immunology, immunotherapy for chronic kidney disease is put forward, as one part of which immune block plays an important role on the treatment.

95% chronic kidney disease is caused by the immune disorder. Normal immune system is to fight with the germs and bacteria to keep people healthy. When immune system begins goes wrong, the foreign body would destroy the healthy tissues or organs. If the kidneys are destroyed, kidney damage will occur, causing chronic kidney disease.

Thus, immune block is to stop the foreign body destroying the kidneys to achieve the goal of protecting kidneys.

● What is immune block therapy?

Immune block therapy is to restrain the extreme inflammatory reaction by immune depressant with low effects. it aims to stop the inflammatory reaction in the kidneys to prevent the foreign body damaging the kidneys.

● What are the methods in immune block therapy?

In fact, we use various immunosuppressive agents. At present, glucocorticoid is the commonest medicine used to treat kidney disease. The immune block therapy is a therapy which uses more types of immunosuppressive agents with lower side effects that include:

1. Drugs which treats the autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and leukemia. It shows it plays great role on the chronic kidney disease treatment.

2. Monoclonal antibody medicines, the usage of which is a breakthrough in the treatment of chronic kidney disease. Choose the monoclonal antibody medicine which can block the kidney fibrosis.

3. Use glucocorticoid to improve the immunity.

In summary, the immune block therapy is to block the inflammatory reaction.

● What should you expect from the immune block therapy?

With experience and techniques, we are more confident to treat the chronic kidney disease.

Remove the inflammation fast.

Accurate diagnosis makes sure the effects of medicines.

It is an update treatment for chronic kidney disease.


Immune block therapy is a new therapy for chronic kidney disease. Not only does it releases the symptoms but also regulate and rebuild the immune system.

Exercise Plays a Role on Diabetes Management

Diabetes is a chronic kidney disease which can be controlled by proper medicines, exercise, medications and insulin injection. There are two major types – type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. No matter what type you have, it is necessary to take steps to control blood sugar. Exercise plays a role on diabetes management.
It is proved that exercise helps control the diabetes, improve life quality with more joy. But diabetics need to pay more attention to the amount and mode of exercise and announcement, in order to avoid the adverse events.

● Exercise benefits the diabetics which can:

Reduce blood sugar

Enhance the effect of insulin

Burn fat and lose weight

Anneal the heart, lung and bone

Make people feel release and improve the immunity.

Although exercise brings a lot of benefits a lot, considerations is informed to the diabetics. Choose exercise according to the heart rate. The appropriate heart rate = 170-age. It is better to do exercise for 40-50 minutes 3-4 times every week.

● Exercise suiting the diabetics includes:

Exercise with minimum strength (30 minutes): walk, housework, TaiChi, and shopping.

Exercise with low strength (20 minutes): social dance, going downstairs, biking
Exercise with moderate strength (10 minutes ) slow running, going upstairs,
Exercise with high strength: skipping swimming, playing basketball.

● Not every diabetic is suitable to do exercise.

1. Diabetics who having a poor control of diabetes.

2. Diabetics, complicated by high blood pressure.

3. Diabetics with blood sugar beyond 11.1 mmol/l or more 10% glycoylated hemoglobin.

4. Diabetics who develop persistent proteinuria and kidney dysfunction.

5. Diabetics complicated by acute infection, pulmonary phthisis, and liver disease.

Proper exercise benefits the diabetics but violent exercise has negative effects on diabetics.


Diabetics consult your doctor what type of exercise is suitable to you in order to avoid the adverse events.

Another New Form of Chinese Herbs for Kidney Failure

Chinese herbs have been used to treat kidney failure for thousands of years. Its therapeutic effects have been recognized in the world. Here, a new form of Chinese herbs for kidney failure is introduced – Medicated Bath.

◆ Overview of Medicated Bath

Medicated Bath is a therapeutic bath for kidney failure. Before starting the process of medicated bath, the temperature is measured to make sure it within 35 and 37℃. Subsequently, according to individual condition, the prescribed Chinese herbs fluid is dispersed in water, and then soaks the body in the medicated fluid for half hours, which can make you sweat much. The reason for the treatment is explained to the patient, and instructions are given not to get out of the tub without assistance and not to add water without calling the nurse. The medicated bath is usually soothing, relaxing and comforting for the patient. During the procedure, there are nurses will instructing the patient fully and ensuring comfort.

◆ How does Medicated Bath work on Kidney failure?

Medicated bath treats kidney failure through skin.

Skin is a miracle organ which is the largest organ in terms of the size and takes up 5-15 percent of the total weigh. Kidney failure closely links to the skin.

Skin can breathe by sweat pore, directly absorbing oxygen from the air and meanwhile filtering the carbon dioxide. Skin is able to keep the balance of acid and alkaline and increase oxygen in the blood.

Skin can discharge excessive fluid. In normal people, 600-700 ml fluid is discharged silently. It also can discharge some wastes such as urea, lactic acid and fatty acid. Thus, it is a good way to treat kidney disease through skin.
Medicated bath is to discharge toxic substances and excessive fluid in the sweats, replacing the kidney function. The size of skin is large. If some medicines can promote sweats, effective ingredients can combine with the toxic substances by skin and then removing them out of body. This way can replace part of kidney function. The Chinese herbs are to work on the skin and reach to the lesion, restoring the kidneys.

◆ What will you expect from Medicated Bath?

Alleviate the symptoms of end-stage renal disease. With medicated bath, the symptoms of chronic kidney disease can be alleviated especially fatigue and swelling.

It is more effective in chronic renal insufficient than in end-stage renal failure patients.

It has a unique curative effect on the itching skin.


It regulates the immune system and improve the immunity and self-healing.