Treatment to Prevent Chronic Glomerulonephritis Develop into Kidney Failure

Chronic Glomerulonephritis usually starts after streptococcal infections or occasionally other infections such as virus, bacteria and parasitic infection. The routine therapies for the disease are as follows:

Treatment for infection

As infection is the triggering factor of Chronic Glomerulonephritis, the patients are usually prescribed with anti-inflammatory drugs.

Chronic Glomerulonephritis

The above treatment methods have certain function in relieving symptoms and slowing down its progression. However, as the treatments does not treat Chronic Glomerulonephritis from its underlying causes, it is not able to halt its progression into Renal Failure.

Symptomatic treatment

As for high blood pressure, swelling, the patients are usually prescribed with medications for blood pressure, hormone, etc to eliminate symptoms.

Chronic Glomerulonephritis is an immune-mediated disease, which is caused by immune dysregulation. In right condition, the immune system in human body can defeat the foreign harmful substances when they invade into body. However, in some cases, the immune system is activated improperly and can not tell the harmful substances and healthy renal tissues and cells, thus resulting in glomerular impairment.

Therefore, the therapy in treating Chronic Glomerulonephritis should focus on suppressing the overactive immune response as well as control symptoms by restoring impaired kidney structure and improving renal function.