nephritis

Inflammation of the kidney

The nephritic syndrome: Various faces of nephritis.Because a variety of causes and forms are known for nephritis, it is also called the "nephritic syndrome". Renal inflammation can affect different sections of the kidney and be caused by various underlying diseases. Very often the functional tissue in the renal cortex is affected, then there is a glomerulonephritis. This is a double-sided abacterial inflammation of the kidneys, which is usually triggered by immunological processes after a (streptococcal) infection or in chronic suppurative inflammatory foci.

In addition, metabolic diseases such as gout can cause inflammatory processes in the kidneys (gouty kidneys) through deposits. The glomerulonephritis can be acute or chronic and often leads to progressive kidney malfunction (chronic renal failure CNI).

Contents:
nephritis
Functions of the kidney
Acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis
Symptoms of acute nephritis
Chronic glomerulonephritis
treatment
Treatment naturopathy

Functions of the kidney

The blood is purified through a tube-like filter system in the renal cortex.The purpose of the human kidneys is to purify the blood by regularly eliminating metabolic waste products, uric acid and urea as products of protein metabolism with excess water. For this purpose, a few hundred liters of blood are filtered through the kidneys daily, which happens especially in the area of ​​the renal cortex. There are innumerable vascular loops (glomeruli), funnel-like structures as well as a tube system in which up to two liters of urine per day are filtered out over a length of about 100 km.

Acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis

In glomerulonephritis, especially the glomeruli, ie the vascular loops of the filter system of the kidney, are affected by the inflammation. As a rule, the disease is preceded by infections such as scarlet fever, pneumonia, measles, colds, but also purulent inflammatory foci in the head area, such as tonsillitis (tonsillitis), sinusitis (in sinusitis) or purulent dental foci. Also, poisoning can be the cause. Immune complexes, which enter the kidneys via the bloodstream and cause pathological changes to the vascular loops, develop during the defense reaction. In this context, one also speaks of an immune complex disease or an allergy type III.

Symptoms of acute nephritis

Symptoms of acute nephritis. The symptoms range from general symptoms such as tiredness, fatigue, fever, paleness and severe thirst, body aches, flank pain, spasmodic pain in the kidney (colic) via vomiting, high blood pressure with headache, to hematuria (blood in the urine) with a small amount of urine. Water retention (edema), visible as swelling around the eyes and ankles, indicates the disturbed excretory function of the kidneys. If the acute inflammation of the kidney does not heal or does not cure enough, a chronic pathological inflammatory process develops.

Chronic glomerulonephritis

Chronic glomerulonephritis leads to kidney failure and self-poisoning. Chronic glomerulonephritis often lacks specific symptoms or is only mildly attenuated. The deposits in the filter system of the renal cortex produces kidney-related high blood pressure (hypertension), which can permanently damage heart muscle and blood vessels in the brain and lead to heart failure or stroke (apoplexy). As a late consequence threaten the nephrotic syndrome with high protein loss (proteinuria), shrinkage, kidney failure and life-threatening uremia (uremia), when the kidneys can no longer adequately meet the blood purification.

treatment

In conventional treatment, antibiotics are often used in addition to the recommendation for bed rest and control of the fluid balance to treat the underlying condition. In addition, particularly in the case of a highly acute course, antihypertensive medicines are prescribed and those which are supposed to influence the immune reactions (immunosuppressants, corticosteroids).

Treatment naturopathy

In naturopathy, some medicinal plants are known, which are used in specific composition both for the treatment of acute and chronic forms of kidney inflammation. In particular, the herb of Goldenrod is due to their anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anticonvulsant and diuretic properties.

Causal interference fields, v.a. in the head area should be tracked down and rehabilitated. For diagnosis u.a. Biofunktionsdiagnostik or the D / Dx test with Spenglersanen. For the rehabilitation of the disturbing herd neuratherapy is often used, as classical natural remedies suitable for the treatment of nephritis also cupping and Baunscheidtismus, body wraps and various sitz baths. (Dipl.Päd. Jeanette Viñals Stein, non-medical practitioner)