Post Date December, 03 2023
As the name suggests, urinary protein is the protein present in urine. Proteins are originally present in the bloodstream, providing nutrients as the blood flows through the body.
Healthy people have no or very little protein in their urine, and it is generally believed that the 24-hour urine should not exceed 0.15 grams of protein. If it exceeds the limit, it will appear positive in the test, which means a plus sign will appear. If it exceeds 3.5 grams, even if it is a large amount of proteinuria, it is also called renal proteinuria.
The blood flows through the kidney 50 times a day. Under normal circumstances, the protein is filtered by the glomerulus, then reabsorption by the renal tubules, and enters the blood again.
Why does protein enter urine?
First, let's look at physiological reasons. As mentioned earlier, blood flows through the kidneys up to 50 times a day. However, if we engage in heavy physical labor, engage in vigorous exercise, experience emotional fluctuations, or consume stimulating foods, it can accelerate blood circulation and increase the frequency of blood flow through the kidneys, which can increase the burden on the kidneys. Once the filtration rate of the glomerulus exceeds the reabsorption rate of the renal tubules, the protein will leak out. This is physiological urinary protein, but this condition usually disappears quickly and usually does not exceed two plus signs.
Secondly, the reason for rational medical treatment is relatively simple, which is the protein leakage caused by kidney damage. This type of renal damage can be either glomerular or tubular damage. The symptoms displayed by the two are not the same, and the treatment methods are also different.
If there is a plus sign in the protein in your urine routine, it is important to pay attention and identify it based on the situation mentioned above.
Treatment can be divided into two situations:
The first method is hormone inhibition, which is currently the most mainstream method because the function of hormones is to reduce the permeability of kidney cells, which can forcibly prevent protein leakage. This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it takes effect quickly, and the methods of hormone suppression are relatively mature. The control of medication and dosage is relatively easy, and can be done in general hospitals; The downside is that it is prone to recurrence, because inhibition is not a treatment after all. Forcibly preventing protein leakage will definitely lead to recurrence after the efficacy disappears or the medication is stopped.
The second type is comprehensive treatment, which involves regulating kidney cells, preventing them from further necrosis, maintaining existing kidney function, and maintaining compensatory kidney function to eliminate urinary protein. This approach has both advantages and disadvantages, with the advantage that the treatment is more thorough and less prone to recurrence; The downside is that the effectiveness is slow. As it is regulated at the cellular level, both drug selection and method selection are complex and cannot be achieved by general hospitals.
Our hospital adopts the second type. By using advanced Western medical diagnostic methods to determine the source of protein and the specific location of kidney damage, traditional Chinese medicine is used to regulate and treat the condition in various ways, and appropriate amounts of Western medicine are used to improve treatment speed. This combination of Western medicine diagnosis, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and Western medicine cooperation is our unique combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment.
