How to Prevent Membranous Nephropathy

In order to prevent Membranous Nephropathy, patients should pay attention to the following points in the daily life:
1. In the daily life, patients should have a good rest, avoid tiredness, and prevent infections. Taking low protein diet mainly, and supplementing vitamins is also very important. In addition, patients should also avoid taking medicines which will damage the kidneys.
2. In order to direct the conduct of the treatment, patients should return to visit the doctor every one or two weeks during the period of medicine treatment, so as to observe whether the liver and kidney functions are normal by a urinary routine test; and the growth and development of children with Membranous Nephropathy should be especially paid attention to.
3. After the active lesions have been controlled, and the course of treatment has been completed, patients should do a biopsy once again, so as to observe the pathological changes of the kidney tissues, and estimate whether there is chronic lesion, thus adopting measures timely.
4. Patients should pay attention to protect the remaining kidney functions, correct kinds of factors which decrease the renal blood flow(such as hypoproteinemia, dehydration, hypotension,etc.) and prevent infections. All these measures mentioned above are important links which can not be ignored in preventing Membranous Nephropathy.
Complications of Membranous Nephropathy which can affect the curative effect and the long-term prognosis of patients should be treated actively:
1. Infections
By the treatment of hormone, patients are easy to suffer from infections. Once infections occur, antibiotic which are sensitive to pathogenic bacteria, effective and has no renal toxicity should be adopted for the treatment, and the definite focal infection should be removed as soon as possible.
2. Thrombus and embolism complications
It is generally acknowledged that when the concentration of plasma albumin is below 20 g/L, hypercoagulable state may occur. Then the preventive anticoagulation should be adopted immediately.
3. Acute Kidney Failure
If Nephrotic Syndrome combined with acute Kidney Failure can not be managed properly, the patient's life will be in danger. However, if the situation can be managed properly, most of the patients can recover.


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