How to treat kidney disease

The treatment of nephropathy includes: 1. general treatment: avoiding causative factors, removing triggers such as infections, avoiding exposure to nephrotoxic drugs or poisons, adopting a healthy lifestyle, such as quitting smoking, moderate exercise, controlling emotions, and a reasonable diet; 2. treatment for etiology and pathogenesis: renal diseases, especially primary glomerular diseases and secondary glomerular diseases, such as lupus nephritis and systemic vasculitis, whose The main mechanism of pathogenesis is abnormal immune response. Therefore, treatment often includes hormone and immunosuppressive therapy, blood purification therapy such as plasma exchange, which can effectively remove autoantibodies and antigen-antibody complexes from the body, and can be used to treat severe immune nephropathy, especially severe lupus nephritis and systemic vasculitis kidney damage; 3, treatment of comorbidities and complications: patients with kidney disease often have a variety of comorbidities, such as various metabolic abnormalities, hypertension or other organ diseases, such as coronary heart disease, heart failure and liver cirrhosis, may aggravate the symptoms of kidney disease and should be treated actively. Complications of renal disease involve all systems of the body, such as infection, abnormal coagulation, renal hypertension, renal anemia, renal bone disease, disorders of water and electrolyte and acid-base balance, acute left heart failure, pulmonary edema, and uremic encephalopathy. These complications can not only affect the quality of life and life of patients with kidney disease, but also may further aggravate kidney disease, forming a vicious circle and seriously affecting the prognosis of patients, which should also be actively treated.4. Renal replacement therapy: including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation.