Treatment of kidney disease is valuable in persistence

  Kidney disease is a difficult disease, the course of the disease is long, lingering, slow progress, treatment is more difficult, patients must persistently take medication. Even if they have achieved better results, the consolidation treatment should be at least one or two years. Refractory kidney disease should take longer.  Chinese medicine has certain advantages in treating kidney disease. It repairs kidney tissues and improves kidney function through evidence-based treatment, so that kidney disease can be controlled. However, it takes some time to achieve good results. Because it is impossible to cure a chronic disease of several years or even ten years overnight. Therefore, the efficacy can only be seen by insisting on taking the medicine, and one or two routine urine tests cannot tell the problem.  In the process of treatment, it is inevitable that recurrence or relapse of kidney disease is often caused by cold, fatigue, mood swings, improper diet, etc.. Some patients do not understand this, once they see the recurrence of the disease, the increase of protein or red blood cells in the urine, they will beat a retreat, so that they lose all their efforts. Some patients also took the medicine for a period of time, the tests were normal, so they stopped the medicine on their own.  The result is that not long after the urine protein, red blood cells again, so repeatedly many times, even years, so that some of the disease could have been well controlled, missed the best time for treatment.  In the clinic we found that there are many patients or patients’ families who tend to go to two extremes in the treatment of the disease.  First, some patients do not pay enough attention to the condition and prognosis, no goal for treatment, no persistence in medication, delaying the time, so that the disease could have been cured, and eventually become incurable.  Second, some patients are overburdened, some even bought a large number of books about kidney disease, read every day, and visit kidney disease experts around, as if they have become experts in kidney disease. When receiving treatment, always doubt the doctor’s treatment plan, do not cooperate with the doctor’s treatment. I don’t know, any expert on the diagnosis and treatment of the disease have a process of understanding, and the efficacy of the treatment also has a quantitative to qualitative stage, frequent change of doctors is actually the diagnosis and treatment of disease taboo.  Some patients are also tired of running around, making the disease worse. Other patients make a fuss about the slightest change in each indicator of urine tests, and even buy test strips to test themselves, which in effect causes a great psychological burden to themselves, which is very detrimental to the treatment of kidney disease.  Therefore, we remind kidney disease patients and their families that they should pay high attention to kidney disease and actively treat it, but they should not be too impatient, and they should patiently adhere to the treatment until they are completely recovered.