Supportive care in Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome

Pediatric Nephrology publishes a really important article for pediatricians which includes all non-immunosuppressive management of Nephrotic syndrome in children.

Important salient features of paper:

• Prevention of infections- Pneumococcal, Influenza and Varicella immunization
• Stress dose of steroids during infections
• Preventing thromboembolism
• Judicious management of edema, dyslipidemia and hypertension
• Management of edema

How to dose steroids in Nephrotic syndrome

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00467-015-3285-1

An excellent article from JIPMER which says that dosage should be mostly still on body weight basis. Though the study has lot of fallacies also highlighted in editorial.