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Nephrotic syndrome in children- Home Remedy

The year 2021, started for me in a hospital. My husband and me were in hospital with my son for a diagnosis of his swollen body. Little did we know that we were going to be told something that will put our life into irrecoverable agony. Yes, the doctor said "Your child has nephrotic Syndrome". Since then till today a lot of things happened and the whole year was devastating with my son relapsing so many times. He was on steroids for a long time close to 9 months with 1months gap in between where he was on remission without any medicine.As time progressed he became steroid dependent.Meanwhile he also went through biopsy which stated he has MCD. we moved from hospital to hospital city to city and finally ended up in CMC Vellore where the doctor suggested to start with second line medicine called Tacrolimus. today when I am writing this he is on Tacrolimus twice daily. one surprising fact is non of the doctors were able to figure out the reason. while on tacrolimus and predinoso...