Post Date December, 03 2023
Nephrotic syndrome is a kidney disease that can easily pose health risks to children in clinical practice. Therefore, we should strengthen the protection of children's kidney health and actively defend against this disease. So what are the obvious symptoms that children with nephrotic syndrome may experience when they come on?
Edema is the most obvious clinical characteristic of a child's condition, so parents and friends should pay attention to discovering the child's condition in a timely manner through this onset characteristic. Kidney syndrome in children has the characteristic of high swelling, which generally appears to varying degrees in the lower limbs, head, face, and trunk, especially in areas with loose tissue, such as the eyelids. Sometimes the scrotum of boys can become swollen like a light bulb, and there is also fluid accumulation in the visceral serosal cavity.
Usually, under the torment of the disease, the nutritional content in the body of children may become imbalanced. The most typical manifestation is the loss of protein in children with nephrotic syndrome, which leads to some symptoms of protein deficiency in the patient's children, such as dry and withered hair, keratinized hair follicles, dry skin, white stripes on fingernails, and delayed development.
Nephrotic syndrome causes a lot of health damage to children. Usually, during a prolonged episode of nephrotic syndrome, the child's condition is prone to recurrent infections, including skin erysipelas, intestinal infections, pneumonia, primary peritonitis, and sepsis.
Through the above content, we have gained a more detailed understanding of the clinical manifestations and characteristics of pediatric nephrotic syndrome. Everyone should pay regular attention to children's kidney health in daily life, and parents should actively assist children in comprehensive and active prevention of kidney disease.
