Does chronic interstitial nephritis require lifelong medication?

Chronic interstitial nephritis usually requires lifelong medication.
Chronic interstitial nephritis is caused by a variety of etiological factors, with renal tubular dysfunction as the main manifestation of a group of diseases or clinical syndromes, its course is long, insidious onset, often slow progression to chronic renal failure, the pathology is also characterized by chronic disease as the main manifestation of renal tubular atrophy, renal interstitial fibrosis is prominent.
Chronic interstitial nephritis should actively remove the causative factors, such as stopping the use of related drugs and removing infectious factors. However, due to the insidious onset of chronic interstitial nephritis, the discovery of more than renal fibrosis has presented the main chronic and irreversible damage, remove the causative factors have often been unable to work.
Chronic interstitial nephritis treatment is mainly symptomatic supportive therapy: correct electrolyte disorders and acid-base balance imbalance; supplementation of human erythropoietin to correct renal anemia, control of hypertension, and often need to be lifelong medication.
Chronic interstitial nephritis patients should go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional physician timely treatment.