How long can you live with purpura nephritis?

Purpura nephritis is also called allergic purpura nephritis. This disease is relatively serious because it can cause considerable damage to the patient's organs throughout the body. Its main manifestation is severe edema, which leads to purpura on the skin. A small number of patients will have abnormal urine. The survival time of patients with purpura nephritis will also vary, which is related to physical constitution and treatment methods.

How long can you live with purpura nephritis?

In fact, if the disease is well controlled and proteinuria and occult blood turn negative for more than two years, it basically means that the patient has achieved the goal of clinical cure. Of course, there are some patients whose proteinuria and occult blood cannot be controlled. As the disease recurs, their renal function will gradually be damaged, blood creatinine and urea nitrogen will decrease, and finally purpura nephritis will gradually become uremia. Therefore, the question of how long a person with purpuric nephritis can live varies depending on the diagnosis. Some can live for 1 year, 2 years, or 5 years, while others may die in less than a year due to complications such as heart failure.

The first thing to determine is the type of purpuric nephritis. Generally speaking, patients with simple hematuria or proteinuria, hematuria accompanied by proteinuria, or small amount of proteinuria have a better prognosis, and the vast majority of them will recover within half a year or more than a year after treatment. Generally there are no sequelae.

The course of acute nephritis and nephrotic syndrome is usually more than 1 year or even 1.5 years. Most children have a poor prognosis and the disease lasts for several years without recovery. The rapidly progressive nephritis type often has a poor prognosis. Some children are very serious in the acute stage and may develop glomerulonephritis or even show uremia. The life expectancy of patients with purpura nephritis mainly depends on the physical condition of the patients. Most patients with good physical conditions have good medication effects, fast onset of effect, and relatively short treatment time. However, patients with weak physical conditions often need a long time to see the effect, which invisibly extends the treatment time.

Patients need to pay attention to the following points in their daily life

1. Pay attention to bed rest and avoid strenuous exercise and heavy physical exertion.

2. Pay attention to keeping warm and avoid catching a cold. This disease is most taboo to catch a cold.

3. Avoid eating seafood and other foreign proteins to prevent recurrence of allergies and worsening of the condition.

4. Drink more water and avoid strong ultraviolet rays.