Up to 40% of people with diabetes eventually develop kidney disease, which is caused by the serious kidney-related complication known as diabetic nephropathy, also known as diabetic kidney disease.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and managing your diabetes and high blood pressure are the best ways to prevent or delay diabetic nephropathy, which affects your kidneys’ ability to perform their normal function of removing waste products and extra fluid from your body.
Early treatment may prevent or slow disease progression and reduce the risk of complications. The condition gradually weakens the delicate filtering system in your kidneys over a long period of time.
Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a condition that poses a serious risk to your life and could develop from your kidney disease.
Causes
Diabetes can harm kidney blood vessels and other cells, which causes diabetic nephropathy.
How the kidneys work
Severe blood vessel damage can cause diabetic nephropathy, decreased kidney function, and kidney failure in your kidneys, which are made up of millions of tiny blood vessel clusters called glomeruli that filter waste from your blood.
Diabetic nephropathy causes
Diabetes types 1 and 2 frequently result in diabetic nephropathy.
Untreated diabetes-related high blood sugar over time leads to high blood pressure, which in turn exacerbates pressure within the kidneys’ delicate filtering system, causing kidney damage.
Symptoms
You might not experience any signs or symptoms in the early stages of diabetic nephropathy, but in later stages, you might experience:
· Worsening blood pressure control
· Protein in the urine
Eye, hand, foot, or ankle swelling
· Increased need to urinate
Reduced requirement for insulin or diabetes medication
· Confusion or difficulty concentrating
· Loss of appetite
· Nausea and vomiting
· Persistent itching
· Fatigue
Risk factors
Your risk of developing diabetic nephropathy may be affected by a number of factors, such as:
· Diabetes, type 1 or 2
Difficult-to-control hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar
Difficult to manage hypertension (high blood pressure)
Smoking and diabetes co-occur
Having diabetes and having high blood cholesterol
Kidney and diabetes-related conditions run in the family
Complications
Over the course of months or years, diabetic nephropathy complications may gradually manifest.
Fluid retention, which can cause pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs), high blood pressure, and swelling of the arms and legs.
Hyperkalemia is the term for a sudden increase in blood potassium levels.
Cardiovascular disease (also known as heart disease), which may result in a stroke.
Diabetes retinopathy, a condition that affects the retina’s blood vessels
· Anemia
Diarrhea, erectile dysfunction, foot ulcers, and other issues because of damaged blood vessels and nerves
Issues with the pregnancy that put the mother’s health and the unborn child at risk.
End-stage kidney disease, an irreversible condition that eventually renders a kidney transplant or dialysis your only option for survival.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
There are many effective medicines available in homoeopathy for diabetic nephropathy, but the choice depends on the individuality of the patient, taking mental and physiological factors into account. Homoeopathy is a rapidly expanding system that is practiced all over the world. Its strength lies in its evident effectiveness as it takes a holistic approach towards the sick individual.
The management of diabetic nephropathy can be successfully accomplished with carefully chosen homoeopathic remedies, some of which are listed below:
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM 30Lycopodium is a successful treatment for diabetic nephropathy, which is characterized by impotence, milky and turbid urine, burning and hot urine, cries before urinating, red sand in the urine, needing to strain, suppressing, or holding it in. The right kidney is most commonly affected.
When hypertension, oliguria without oedema, and albumin-containing urine are present, serum anguilae is prescribed. It is one of the best treatments for diabetic nephropathy, acute nephritis, and kidney failure.
ARALIA HISPIDA 30It has been discovered that Aralia hispida is effective for treating diabetic nephropathy, dropsy of renal origin, urinary tract infection, scanty urine leading to complete suppression of urine, and renal diseases with constipation.
AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA30- There is uraemia or uremic coma, with the primary symptoms being vomiting, purging, tenesmus, cold sweat, and collapse. Ampelopsis quinquefolia is another successful treatment for diabetic nephropathy.
Additionally, cuprum ars is a highly effective treatment for diabetic nephropathy, which is characterized by kidney insufficiency, uremia, acetones, and diacetic acid in the urine as well as a garlic-like odor.
CUPRUM ACETICUM 3X– The patient is chilly, has a rapid heartbeat, a pale, mucus-covered tongue, anemia, a dry cough, and is unable to eat or drink without throwing up.
ARSENICUM ALBUM- 30-Arsenic alb. This medication is also effective for treating diabetic nephropathy.
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