Better choices of medicines for kidney disease

Healthy adult catches a cold at average 2-4 times every year and child or the olders 6 times. However patients with chronic kidney disease have far more times of cold annually than ordinary people due to their poor immunity system. The number of those kidney patients using hormone are on rise. That is why the medicine choice of the renal patients is different from the ordinary people.

What kind of cold medicine for renal patients?

●Antibiotics instead of ordinary cold drugs

The cold is a primary cause of bronchus and tonsillitis which can cause nephropathy repetition and deterioration.

Therefore, the renal patients should have the best option of antibiotics after a cold because of its equal price and a little side effects contrasting with common cold drugs. Antibiotics is including cefradine and roxithromycin etc and it has sterilized and anti-inflammatory effects.

●Pay attention to cold drug ingredients

There are various cold medications in the market:

Acetaminophen: antipyretic and analgesic;

Pseudoephedrine: reducing congestion ingredients;

Chlorpheniramine: antiallergic agent;

Dextromethorphan: cough suppressants.

So renal patients should choose proper drugs according to different primary cold symptoms which match different drugs. Take for example, some presence like shedding snivel and stuffy nose match contac or GanKang; cough match tylenol or white with black.

Nevertheless, the method is not applicable for a part of kidney patients. Some drugs like Ganmaotong containing diclofenac for antipyretic and analgesic are not safer than Acetaminophen. The patients should focus on the drug ingredients because diclofenac is harmful to kidney functions which can cause hematuria.

●Timely medication

Many of kidney patients don’t take medicine in time after a cold. Either they think that they have good immunity or that cold is a self-limiting disease and they can be in a natural recovery for a few days by themselves. In this case, it would have fatal threats to renal patients, especially patients of NS and IGA .In fact, common cold drugs and antibiotics have little effects on kidney function. Patients don’t have to worry about it. Yet most of sentences of “ no use, liver and kidney dysfunctions” cited from instructions are not helpful .

In all, cold is common for renal patients. So the right solution to prevent it is to choose medicines carefully. Reasonable application of drug can prevent the renal disease from relapse effectively. A part from regular preparation of cold medicines, patients should value on healthy diet and moderate excises and emotional control to enhance immunity to decrease possibility of cold. If patient can not recover for a long time, we suggest that TCM osmotherapy is a better way to treat glomerular cells of lesions.