Acute nephritic syndrome is characterized by haematuria, red blood cell cast in urine, proteinuria, oliguria (decreased urine output), hypertension, fluid retention and sometimes renal failure.
Common causes
Clinical features
Mainly due to post streptococcal glomerulonephritis.
The illness starts about 2-3 weeks after streptococcal bacterial infection on the skin, throat or respiratory tract. It is more common in children but can occur at any age. Both sexes are affected. The onset is often abrupt with puffiness of face, reduced output of urine and reddish smoky urine, hypertension and edema. Severity of the disease is variable. Mild cases may go unnoticed. Severe cases present acutely with life-threatening complications like hypertensive encephalopathy, acute left ventricular failure or uremia. Majority of cases of post streptococcal glomerulonephritis in children is self-limited, and more than 90% recover completely without complication or sequale. After a week or so of the oliguric phase, the diuresis starts.
Homeopathic treatment
Since the majority of the causes due to streptococcal bacterial infection treatment is aimed to treat from the source itself. If the correct medicine according to the present acute symptomatology is given, the complication of acute nephritic syndrome can be very well prevented. But once the acute nephritic syndrome starts hospital admission is necessary because the flout intake should be controlled, and the output of urine should be measured and compared to the input of fluid, and moreover, blood pressure should be measured every now and then.
But in that situation also if homeopathic medicines are tried the recovery will be fast. So homeopathic medicine is effective for the treatment as well as the preventive aspect also.
The homeopathic medicines usually given for the streptococcal infections are Psorinum, Sulphur, Streptococcinum, etc.
If acute nephritic syndrome starts medicines like Apis, Zingiber, Ars alb, Puls, Merc Sol etc. can be tried.
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