Early Symptoms of Nephritis in Children

Because of the insensitivity of children to disease, Nephritis appearing in children is not easy to be found in the early stage. When serious symptoms appear, Nephritis usually has run to end stage. Therefore, to detect Nephritis appearing in children early, parents should pay close attention to their child. The following early symptoms may be helpful.
Children with Nephritis usually have edema which may be shown as local edema and general edema. In some cases, they may have ascites. As to early symptoms of acute Nephritis, oliguria and edema usually appear at the same time and some children even have no urine at all. In general, urine color is more dark and the urine volume per day is lesser than 400 milliliter. In addition, some children may have hematuria symptom which usually lasts for several days to several weeks.
If there are many foams in children’s urine, which can not disappear within the limited time, then they are likely to have gotten Nephritis. A lot of foams in urine is the typical characteristic of kidney disease, including Nephritis. Foamy urine indicates the existence of large amount of protein in urine. Children suffering from Nephritis are easy to have symptoms such as frequent urination, urgent urination and stranguria. They may have or have no elevated blood pressure. Nevertheless, when Nephritis develops into uremia (end stage of kidney stage), it usually is associated with high blood pressure; in addition, it is hard to control. Generally speaking, prognosis of Nephritis associated with high blood pressure is poorer than Nephritis without high blood pressure.
With Nephritis, children may feel pain when they urinate. Furthermore, they always have lower fever symptom which is manifested with intolerance of cold. Most of the time, their body temperature is in the range from thirty eight to thirty nine celsius degree. Sometime, their body temperature may achieve as high as forty celsius degree. Apart from these, children with Nephritis may have occasional back pain in different levels. Furthermore, vomit and poor appetite is another two common symptoms of Nephritis in children.
These are the common symptoms of Nephritis appearing in children. Timely detection of Nephritis can help children avoid renal failure. Therefore, to avoid the bad condition, parents should pay much more attention to find our whether they have some of these or all these symptoms. Once there are similar symptoms, they should take their children go to hospital to do examination. For more information about symptoms of Nephritis in children, you can email to ckdsite@hotmail.com .