What are the symptoms and warning signs of chronic nephritis?

Chronic nephritis is a type of kidney disease. Modern people may develop nephritis due to busy work and irregular diet and rest. The early signs of nephritis are not very obvious and are generally not easy to detect. If not detected in time, it may gradually become serious, leading to kidney disease and easily causing some physical complications.

Early symptoms of chronic nephritis

About 33% of patients will experience high blood pressure, which can manifest as headaches, memory loss, poor sleep, etc. Patients who seek medical treatment for the above symptoms and are found to have high blood pressure must have their urine tested, especially young patients.

In the early stages, patients with chronic renal insufficiency may only experience an increase in the frequency and volume of nocturnal urination. If a healthy person does not drink a lot of water before going to bed, he should not urinate or only urinate once after sleeping at night. If he often urinates more than twice at night, he should go to the hospital to check his urine pattern and kidney function.

Eyelid swelling: The kidney's function of excreting and regulating water is damaged, the amount of water and sodium in the body increases, and excess water accumulates in the loose tissues of the body, and the eyelids are where there is more loose tissue. Its characteristic is that it is more obvious when getting up in the morning and subsides after activity.

The increase in foam in urine is due to the presence of protein in the urine and the high tension. Of course, this symptom is not accurate.

Acute attacks in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis are often associated with infections such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis, upper respiratory tract and skin. Therefore, when suffering from the above infectious diseases, urine regularity should be checked.

Although nephritis patients lack specific symptoms in the early stages, early symptoms of nephritis often include fatigue, weakness, low back pain, facial and ankle edema, and abnormal urine color. Therefore, when these symptoms occur, you should go to the hospital to check your urine.

Causes of chronic nephritis

Some patients habitually believe that chronic nephritis develops from acute nephritis. In fact, only a small number (10% to 20%) of chronic nephritis patients are like this. We know that most cases of acute nephritis can achieve clinical recovery, but in a few cases the disease is prolonged and does not heal for more than a year, with persistent urine protein. Or some patients have achieved clinical recovery, but in fact the pathological changes have not recovered, and symptoms reappear after several years. In addition, the vast majority of chronic nephritis is not related to acute nephritis, but is the direct result of the prolonged development of other primary glomerular diseases, such as mesangial proliferative nephritis, mesangial capillary nephritis, membranous nephropathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, etc. The pathological type determines that the disease will inevitably progress, and the onset is chronic.