2014年5月25日星期日

Can Patients with Lupus Nephritis Conceive

Can patients with Lupus Nephritis conceive? This is a question which most young ladies with Lupus Nephritis are concerned about. Generally, they are not suggested to be pregnant. The risks they put forward are as follows:
Firstly, pregnancy will influence the fetus a lot, which may even lead to abortion and premature birth, giving sorrow to the family members as well as the lady. There is a statistics that the abortion rate is as high as 23.7 and the premature rate is as high as 30%.
Secondly, when lady with Lupus Nephritis are pregnant, the two kidneys will function for two persons, which will lead the kidney to work more and even suffer from more pressuring. In this case, protein in urine may be more. And hematuria will also appear or worsen. What’s worse, during this process, blood pressure will become high as well with the deterioration of kidney function.
Thirdly, the medicine lady with Lupus Nephritis are took in during pregnancy or conceiving will do harm to the fetus as well, especially the western medicine. There will be chemical reaction in ladies’ body if they take in western medicine.
If ladies with Lupus Nephritis have had been pregnant, what should they pay attention to or be aware of?
1. If ladies find out that their blood pressure increases, they should treat it or stop pregnancy.
2. Monitor the growth of the fetus. If fetus are found to have been trapped in the mother’s body, mothers should stop conceiving.
3. Have enough sleep and diet. Proper diet can decrease the recurrence of Lupus Nephritis. Enough rest can also avoid the activity of Lupus Nephritis.
As for the treatment, ladies with Lupus Nephritis are suggested to have immune therapy, for lupus is a kind of self-immune disease. In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, the immune therapy can be divided into six steps: scientific diagnosis, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment, immune protection and immune clearance.
When should they consider conceiving?
1. After the treatment, all the levels turn normal such as proteinuria, hematuria, blood pressure and so on.

2.Half a year after ladies stop the medicine, they can consider having a baby. Although they stop the medicine, the drug which accumulated in the body can also do harm to the body. So half a year later, it will be OK.

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