Can people with nephritis drink Astragalus water?

The kidneys are relatively important organs in our body, and they can be affected by many factors, which may induce diseases. Take nephritis for example. Suffering from this disease will have a great impact on your life, so it must be treated in time. Generally speaking, nephritis is treated with Western medicine, but in modern society there are also many people who like to use Chinese medicine to treat diseases. So, can patients with nephritis drink Astragalus water?

Astragalus can be soaked in water and drunk, but the water must be freshly boiled so that the medicinal flavor can be brewed out. It is recommended to decoct it for better results. Although Astragalus is a very good medicine for treating diseases and nourishing the body, generally with no obvious adverse reactions, its medicinal properties tend to be warming and tonic, replenishing Qi and raising Yang, which can easily help fire; astringing and strengthening the exterior to stop sweating, which can easily close the door and retain evil; replenishing Qi too much and too strongly can easily cause Qi stagnation and Qi reversal, affecting the rise and fall of Qi. Therefore, it is not suitable for those who have not recovered from a cold, have fever, dry mouth, chest and abdominal distension, dry nasopharynx, dry cough and little sputum.

1. Acute glomerulonephritis

It is a group of diseases with acute nephritic syndrome as the main manifestation. It is characterized by acute onset, with patients experiencing hematuria, proteinuria, edema and hypertension, and may be accompanied by transient renal insufficiency. It is more common in streptococcal infection, but can also be caused by other bacterial, viral and parasitic infections.

2. Chronic glomerulonephritis

Abbreviated as chronic nephritis, it refers to a group of glomerular diseases with proteinuria, hematuria, hypertension and edema as the basic clinical manifestations. The onset is different, the disease is protracted, the lesions progress slowly, there may be varying degrees of renal impairment, and eventually develop into chronic renal failure. Due to the different pathological types and stages of this group of diseases, the main clinical manifestations are different and the disease manifestations are diverse.

3. Acute interstitial nephritis

Also known as acute tubulointerstitial nephritis, it is a group of acute kidney diseases with the main pathological manifestations of renal interstitial inflammatory cell infiltration and tubular degeneration. The glomeruli and renal blood vessels are generally not affected or the involvement is relatively mild. The clinical manifestation is acute kidney injury. Common causes include drug allergy, infection, autoimmune disease, malignant tumors, metabolic diseases and unknown causes.

4. Chronic interstitial nephritis

It is a group of clinical syndromes characterized by tubular atrophy, renal interstitial inflammatory cell infiltration and fibrosis. The mechanism of renal interstitial damage may involve multiple factors such as genetics, immune-related, infectious, blood system diseases, poisoning, metabolic disorders, mechanical obstruction of urine flow and renal transplant rejection. The clinical manifestations are varying degrees of renal tubular function damage and progressive chronic renal failure.

5. Hepatitis B virus-related nephritis

Abbreviated as hepatitis B-related nephritis, it is an immune complex glomerular disease caused by chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection of the human body. The clinical manifestations vary in severity and may range from asymptomatic abnormal urine tests to nephrotic-range proteinuria, accompanied by varying degrees of hematuria. There are various pathological types of kidney damage. Membranous nephropathy is common in children, while adults may present with membranoproliferative nephritis or membranous nephropathy.

6. Idiopathic acute tubulointerstitial nephritis

It refers to a tubulointerstitial disease with clinical manifestations of reversible non-oliguric acute kidney injury and unknown etiology. Renal pathology manifests as interstitial edema and mononuclear cell infiltration, but it is difficult to determine the specific cause clinically. Most of them are related to autoimmune diseases, and the cause can be identified in some patients through close monitoring and dynamic observation. Such as being related to chronic active hepatitis, ulcerative colitis, autoimmune thyroid disease, etc. TINU syndrome is a special type of disease in which uveitis occurs during the course of the disease, which may occur before (several weeks) or simultaneously or acutely after (several weeks to several months) kidney damage. It is common in children, adolescents or adult women.