Post Date December, 02 2023
The prevention of uremia begins with the prevention of nephritis. Uremia is an invisible killer that turns pale upon hearing it. Why is it invisible? "To prevent uremia, we must first start with chronic nephritis, and few people know that uremia can also be linked to chronic nephritis.". Therefore, it is particularly important to increase the understanding of chronic nephritis.
In normal people with insufficient sleep, eyelid edema also occurs after waking up in the morning, and it subsides after waking up and exercising. Such daily life experience can easily reduce the vigilance of patients and their families. Many people sometimes experience eyelid edema after waking up, but it usually occurs when they are stressed at work or studying and lack sleep. However, when they have sufficient sleep, this rarely occurs, so they do not take it seriously.
"As a disease, chronic nephritis should have obvious symptoms and signs." Indeed, any disease has symptoms and signs, such as hepatitis, nausea, and yellowing of the skin and sclera; Pneumonia has cough and pus. What are the manifestations of chronic nephritis? The four common manifestations are edema, hypertension, proteinuria, and hematuria. In fact, sometimes these symptoms and signs are very mild, or people are not easy to detect and associate themselves with the disease of nephritis. First of all, the edema of nephritis is usually eyelid edema, which is most common after waking up in the morning.
Another symptom is high blood pressure. Indeed, some patients with chronic nephritis are characterized by high blood pressure. However, due to the fact that the onset age is concentrated in young adults, the heart and blood vessel conditions are good, and the ability to compensate is strong. Many people occasionally find themselves with high blood pressure, while more people, especially young people, do not have the feeling of dizziness or palpitations, and do not deliberately measure their blood pressure, so they do not know if their blood pressure is high. In addition, there are also some patients with high blood pressure manifested in the late stage of the disease due to renal function decompensation.
For the other two physical signs of hematuria and proteinuria, these terms are more misleading. Is hematuria just blood in the urine? Is proteinuria the presence of protein in urine? That's right or wrong. "The reason for this is because it's actually true, and the reason for this is that in reality, people have little understanding of these two abnormal states. Generally, people think that hematuria is a condition in which blood can be seen in the urine, while the state of proteinuria is even more ambiguous.". In fact, people generally believe that hematuria is naked eye hematuria. Generally, the occurrence of naked eye hematuria is not caused by chronic nephritis, but by other diseases of the urinary system. However, the hematuria of chronic nephritis is mostly microscopic hematuria, which requires laboratory testing to be able to know.
Proteinuria is very familiar to those who have experienced diseases. Generally, the urine is very turbid, with some large foam, and will not disappear for a long time. But in real life, few people pay special attention to their own urine, especially for many people with very good living habits, they flush the urine after a short rest without leaving to observe whether there is turbidity or foam. Some patients with chronic nephritis have very mild and insidious symptoms and signs that hardly affect their daily life and work, but in fact, the condition is developing.
"The view that 'chronic' is transformed from 'acute' is wrong.". Chronic glomerulonephritis is a group of multiple etiologies, caused by various bacterial, viral, or protozoan infections, through immune mechanisms, inflammatory mediators, and non immune mechanisms. Most patients have no clear relationship with streptococcal infection. According to statistics, only 15% to 20% of patients are transformed from acute glomerulonephritis.
Therefore, when we found out this disease, everyone was very confused. When did we get this disease? Haven't you had acute nephritis? Here, many people confuse acute nephritis with chronic nephritis. In simple terms, there is a connection between them, but not a one-to-one connection. That is, not every patient with acute nephritis will turn to chronic nephritis, and not every patient with chronic nephritis will have the process of acute nephritis. People should pay attention to the fact that the etiology of chronic nephritis is very complex, and many patients have a concealed onset and may not have an acute process.
