What causes fever in children with acute nephritis? How to prevent it

Nephritis has been increasingly affecting younger people, so it must attract everyone's attention. So will acute nephritis cause fever? How to deal with fever? How to prevent it?

The initial symptoms of acute nephritis in children include low fever, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. These symptoms are no different from common fever and colds and are not easily taken seriously. If parents do not observe their children's changes carefully, the disease may be delayed. If treated properly, most cases of acute nephritis can be cured.

After effective treatment, most patients experience diuresis, swelling reduction, and blood pressure reduction within 1 to 4 weeks, and urine test results often improve as well. Serum C3 returned to normal within 8 weeks, and pathological examination also mostly returned to normal or only left mesangial cell hyperplasia. However, small amounts of microscopic hematuria and trace amounts of proteinuria may sometimes take half a year to a year to disappear. Therefore, during the treatment of acute nephritis, it is very necessary to regularly review urine routine tests.

For mothers, it is most important to prevent acute nephritis in children and do a good job in preventing it.

1. Help children exercise, strengthen their physical fitness and improve their ability to resist disease.

2. Pay attention to children's skin hygiene, change their clothes and bathe them frequently, and prevent them from being bitten by mosquitoes and skin infections.

3. For children with recurrent tonsillitis, tonsillectomy may be considered.

4. Pay attention to climate changes and add or remove clothes for children in time.

Dietary considerations for children with acute nephritis

Experts point out that generally patients with acute nephritis do not need to give up fruit, but eating too much fruit is not recommended, especially for patients with more serious conditions. This is due to poor kidney function and limited potassium excretion capacity. Fruits are rich in potassium, and eating too much will increase blood potassium. If you already have high blood potassium, it will be very dangerous.

Patients with renal failure and hyperkalemia must abstain from fruits and other high-potassium foods, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, cabbage, pickled mustard tubers, beans, peanuts and walnuts. Eating fruit during the recovery period is beneficial to the patient's recovery.

Experts point out that generally, patients with acute nephritis do not need to restrict their water intake. Most patients with edema do not feel thirsty and do not need to drink too much water. Patients with severe edema and low urine volume should limit their water intake; patients with acute renal failure should limit their water intake even more strictly.

Warm reminder: Acute nephritis is a kidney disease that not only affects adults, but children can also suffer greatly from the disease due to their lifestyle habits and other factors. Therefore, experts call on parents to pay more attention to their own health as well as their children's health in order to avoid causing their children to suffer from illness.