Diabetic nephropathy and its treatment

Diabetic nephropathy (diabetic nephropathy, DN) is caused by diabetes, the most serious and most dangerous chronic complications caused by microvascular disease caused by diabetes, glomerular sclerosis, is the characteristics of this disease. IDDM patients is also the main cause of death. Diabetic patients with infectious diseases such as pyelonephritis, renal papilla necrosis, macrovascular disease such as renal arteriosclerosis, is not a category of diabetic nephropathy. With the continuous progress of diabetes treatment and technology, died of acute complications of diabetes such as ketoacidosis less and less, and diabetes complicated with cardiovascular disease and kidney disease has become the main cause of death in recent years, diabetes Cause of remnants. Diabetic nephropathy occurs not only in type 1 diabetes. In recent years found that this type 2 diabetes will develop into diabetic nephropathy.
Why can not dialysis diabetic kidney disease be treated?
Dialysis is only a procedure for eliminating wastes and excess water in the blood. In this way, it can only reduce the stress on the kidneys, but it can not treat diabetic kidney disease from scratch. Diabetic kidney disease is caused by diabetes the damage from renal function. For the symptom is the best way to repair the damage of renal function. In addition, dialysis has many side effects. So, if you want to control the disease well, you need effective therapy that has few side effects or no side effects.