Glomerulonephritis is a kind of kidney disease. It involves damage to glomeruli (tiny filters inside our kidneys) and kidneys can have trouble removing waste and fluid from your body. Many mild cases resolve with treatment. If the condition becomes severe, it can lead to kidney failure.
Glomeruli are tiny filtering units made of capillaries (tiny blood vessels) in our kidneys. We have almost a million of them. Their job is to remove waste and extra fluid from our body/organism.
Some people don’t show any symptoms. Infections and immune system disorders are one of the many causes. Sometimes, glomerulonephritis leads to kidney failure and other complications.
Types of glomerulonephritis
Acute glomerulonephritis (when it starts suddenly). When it happens slowly and lasts a while, it’s called chronic glomerulonephritis.
Symptoms
Patients with glomerulonephritis often don’t experience any warning signs of the disease. But symptoms can include:
- Hematuria (Blood in urine), which may make it look brown, pink or red.
- Nausea.
- Rash.
- Shortness of breath.
- Pain in joints or abdomen.
- Auria (Urinate less) or Polyuria (more than usual).
- Edema in legs or face.
- Foamy or bubbly urine.
- High blood pressure.
- Jaundice.
- Weight loss or loss of appetite.
Causes of glomerulonephritis
The reason glomerulonephritis appears is often unknown. But causes may include:
- A complication of bacterial endocarditis, an infection in your heart valves.
- A complication of infections like strep throat, HIV or hepatitis C.
- Autoimmune diseases, such as lupus.
- Anti-GBM disease (formerly Goodpasture syndrome), a group of autoimmune diseases that affect lungs and kidneys.
- IgA nephropathy, a kidney disease caused by a buildup of abnormal IgA antibody (immunoglobulin A).
- Rare diseases that inflame blood vessels like granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Wegener’s disease), microscopic polyangiitis, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, or eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Churg-Strauss syndrome).
- Genetic.
- Certain types of cancer (like multiple myeloma).
Complications of glomerulonephritis
Sometimes patients develop complications from glomerulonephritis include:
- Blood clots, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT)or pulmonary embolism (PE).
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- Hypertension.
- High cholesterol.
- Kidney failure.
- Nephrotic syndrome (nephrosis) {proteinuria, often leading to foamy urine and edema.
Diagnosis
Glomerulonephritis may not produce symptoms. That’s why it’s often discovered during tests for another concern/accidentally, advise your patients the following tests:
- Urine test (for protein or blood in urine).
- Blood test to measure the level of creatinine.
- Kidney biopsy.
- Imaging tests: imaging tests such as ultrasound, X-ray or CT scan. These tests check the size and shape of the kidneys, look for blockages and help diagnose other problems.
Allopathic treatment for glomerulonephritis
Allopathic treatment depends on what’s causing the condition and if the patient has kidney damage. The only goal of allopathic treatment is to reduce any further damage.
Sometimes, treating the underlying cause, like taking medication to manage high blood pressure, is all that’s necessary. If the cause is due to infection, antibiotics can treat the infection.
At other times, you may recommend:
- Advise dietary regime.
- Immunosuppressants (if a problem with immune system causes glomerulonephritis).
- Medicine to lower blood pressure, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin blockers (ARB).
- Corticosteroids (decrease inflammation).
- Dialysis.
- Diuretics reduce swelling and remove excess fluid from the body.
- Plasmapheresis (process that filters protein from the blood).
Homeopathic treatment for glomerulonephritis
Homoeopathy today is a rapidly growing system throughout the world. Its strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual. There are many medicines for glomerulonephritis in Homeopathy; here I’ll (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) explain very few of them:
Aconite Nepalus
Suppression of urine, with pressure in the bladder and pains in the loins. A frequent desire to urinate, accompanied by anxiety, pain, sweat, diarrhea, and colic. Urinary blader muscular weakness (Involuntary emission of urine). Enuresis, with thirst. Urine scanty, burning, deep red, and with a sediment of a brick color. urine suppression from cold. Bloody sediment in the urine. Glomerulonephritis. Scanty, red, hot urine, without sediment. Heat and tenesmus in the neck of the bladder.
Allium cepa
Strangury after wet feet. Dribbling or spouting of urine in old people. Frequent and copious urination. Urine red, with much urging and burning in urethra. Pressure and other pains in the region of the bladder. Sensation of weakness in the bladder and urethra.
Apis melifca
Burning soreness when urinating. Strangury. Pain in region of kidneys; soreness on pressure or when stooping. Frequent desire to urinate with passage of only a few drops. Urine scanty and high-colored; with thirstlessness. Incontinence of urine from coughing and other circumstances. Urine suppressed. Too profuse discharge of urine. Frequent and profuse urination. Albuminuria of scarlatina. Glomerulonephritis. Burning, stinging and smarting in the urethra. The bladder is very painful, often tenesmus after urinating. Hematuria, milky appearance; very dark and frothy; very fetid; sediment reddish-brown, like coffee grounds.
Ocimuim Canum
High acidity, formation of spike crystals of uric acid. Turbid, thick, purulent, bloody; brick-dust red or yellow sediment. Odor of musk. Pain in ureters. Cramps in kidneys.
Argentum Nitricum
Nephralgia; pain by touching region. Urine dark red; contains deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid crystals. Quick urging to urinate, frequent and copious emission of pale urine. Incontinence night and day. Urethra from meatus to bladder hot and burning. Urine burning while passing, urethra feels as if swollen. Inability to pass urine in a projecting stream. Stream of urine spreads asunder. Oozing of mucus from urethra: thick. Stitches in extremity of urethra; cutting from posterior part of urethra to anus, when emitting last drop of urine. Inflammation, and violent burning or shooting pains in the urethra, with increased gonorrhea. Priapism, bleeding of the urethra. Stricture of the urethra. Dysuria, bloody urine and fever. Glomerulonephritis.
Arsenicum Album
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood, glomerulonephritis. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright’s disease. Diabetes.
Belladonna
Urine retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive, glomerulonephritis, Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. Hematuria where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.
Benzoic Acidum
Urine repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid, glomerulonephritis. Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of old men. Excess of uric acid. Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhea. Cystitis.
Berberis Vulgaris
Micturition. Sensation as if some urine remained after urinating. Urine with thick mucus and bright-red, mealy sediment. Bubbling, sore sensation in kidneys. Pain in bladder region. Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating. Frequent urination: urethra burns when not urinating.
Cantheris Vesicatoria
Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate, bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine. Glomerulonephritis. Urine scalds him and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales look like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.
Crotalus Horridus
Hematuria. Suppression or painful retention of urine. Urine: scanty, dark and red with blood; jelly-like; green, yellow from much bile; copious and light-colored.
Hepar Sulph
Urine slow and turbid, with whitish sediment. The urine is passed slowly, with difficulty; drops out perpendicularly. Abundant secretion of pale urine, with pressure on the bladder. Acidic corrosive (corroding the prepuce), or pale and watery, or deep-red, and hot urine. Nocturnal emission of urine. Glomerulonephritis. Emission of blood after urination. Burning in the urethra during micturition. Stitches in the urethra. Redness and inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. Discharge of mucus from the urethra.
Pareira Brava
Black, bloody, thick mucus urine. Constant urging; great straining; pain down thighs during efforts to urinate. Glomerulonephritis. Can emit urine only when he goes on his knees, pressing head firmly against the floor. Feeling of the bladder being distended and neuralgic pain. Dribbling after micturition. Violent pain in glans penis. Itching along urethra; urethritis, with prostatic trouble. Inflammation of urethra; becomes almost cartilaginous.
Kali Bichromicum
Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up. Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts. Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus, or blood. Hemat chyluria.
Kali chloricum
Urine albuminous, scanty, suppressed. Hematuria; diuresis. Nucleo-albumin and bile, high Phosphoric acid, with low total solids.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Urgent want to urinate, too frequently. Dark urine with diminished discharge. Oily urine. Involuntary micturition. Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless. Old thickening of bladder with irritable urethra. Foamy urine. Urine deep colored, with yellow or reddish sediment. Clear, transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallized sediment in the bottom.
A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating; causing patient to cry out; retention of urine; patients will get into position to urinate but wait a while before urinating. Glomerulonephritis. Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive purulent sediment; dull pressure in region of bladder and abdomen; disposition to calculi; cystitis. Hematuria from gravel or chronic catarrh. Renal calculus and gravel. Emission of blood instead of water, sometimes with paralysis of the legs, and constipation. Incontinence of urine. Smarting when urinating. Itching in urethra during and after emission of urine. Shooting pinching and incisive pains in the bladder and urethra. Stitches in the bladder. Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time. Burning in urethra and glans. Urine burning hot, like molten lead.
Mercurius Corisive
Intense burning in urethra. Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Tenesmus of bladder. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder. Perspiration after urinating.
Mercurius Solibulis
Frequent urging. Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate. Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous.
Nux vomica
Irritable bladder; from spasmodic sphincter. Frequent calls; little and often. Hematuria. Ineffectual urging, spasmodic and strangury. Renal colic extending to genitals, with dribbling urine. While urinating, itching in urethra and pain in neck of bladder.
Sarsaparilla Officianalis
Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe pain at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles while sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right kidney downward. Glomerulonephritis. Tenesmus of bladder; urine passes in thin, feeble stream. Pain at meatus.
Senecio Aureus
Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much mucus and tenesmus. Sever micturition and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic.
Terebinthin Olium
Strangury, with bloody urine. Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets. Urethritis, with painful erections. Inflamed kidneys following any acute disease. Constant tenesmus.
Prognosis
Different people have different outcomes with glomerulonephritis depending on what kind of glomerulonephritis patient has, but fortunately any stage is curable with proper Homeopathic medication.
According to allopathic doctors, glomerulonephritis goes away over time without any treatment which off course is not a good decision. Some patients have no symptoms of the disease and only find out because they have a blood or urine test for another condition.
But remember, glomerulonephritis can cause kidney damage and lead to kidney failure without treatment.
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